Rosalie Sorrels was an American folk singer-songwriter.
35 Facts About Rosalie Sorrels
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Rosalie Sorrels began her public career as a singer and collector of traditional folksongs in the late 1950s.
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In 1990 Rosalie Sorrels was the recipient of the World Folk Music Association's Kate Wolf Award.
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Rosalie Sorrels had been featured several times on National Public Radio and profiled on Idaho Public Television.
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Rosalie Sorrels Ann Stringfellow was born on June 24,1933, in Boise, Idaho, to Walter Pendleton Stringfellow and Nancy Ann Kelly.
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Rosalie Sorrels's parents met while attending Idaho State University in Pocatello.
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Rosalie Sorrels's father worked for the highway department and the family often travelled with him as he did field work.
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Rosalie Sorrels's wife, Rosalie Cope, was a photographer and journalist.
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Rosalie Sorrels developed a love of the outdoors while spending summers on Grimes Creek.
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Rosalie Sorrels's mother's parents were James Madison Kelly and Arabel Beaire who married and settled on a farm in Twin Falls, Idaho, where Rosalie was a frequent visitor.
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Rosalie Sorrels did not go to college as planned, but returned to Boise after the birth of her child.
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Rosalie Sorrels acted in local theater and partied with her friends.
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Rosalie Sorrels recounted that her parents loved her and did not judge her.
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Jim Sorrels and Rosalie Stringfellow met while performing in theater in Boise, Idaho.
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Rosalie Sorrels joked that Jim married her to get access to her collection of jazz recordings.
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Rosalie Sorrels learned to accompany herself on guitar during this period and attended folklore society meetings and seminars.
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In 1963 Rosalie Sorrels began a four-decade relationship with Manny Greenhill and Folklore Productions.
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Rosalie Sorrels performed with Manny's son, Mitch, at the 1966 Newport Folk Festival and produced an album in 1964 for Folk-Legacy Records entitled If I Could Be the Rain.
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Rosalie Sorrels continued working on her craft, and was one of the performers at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival.
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Rosalie Sorrels maintained an active performance schedule throughout the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, often touring solo or with close friend Utah Phillips.
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Rosalie Sorrels was awarded the Kate Wolf Memorial Award by the World Folk Music Association in 1990.
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Writing, whether sermons, magazine articles, or poems, and personal journaling were all activities Rosalie Sorrels experienced in her youth.
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Rosalie Sorrels followed the same path, expressing herself by journaling and writing poetry and prose.
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Rosalie Sorrels had access to a scrapbook of folk songs collected by her grandmother, Rosalie Cope Stringfellow.
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Rosalie Sorrels began her music career collecting folksongs and performing them, first with her husband Jim in the late 1950s, then later on her own.
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Rosalie Sorrels was a regular in the Utah folk scene in the late 1950s and early 1960s when she and her husband taught folk guitar classes at the University of Utah.
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Rosalie Sorrels participated in workshops and folk festivals in the area, such as the Utah Folklore Workshop and Festival.
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Rosalie Sorrels was a concert promoter and brought Joan Baez to Salt Lake City the first time in 1963.
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Folk singer Nanci Griffith wrote a fictional song about Rosalie Sorrels, titled "Ford Econoline" after the passenger utility vehicle.
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The song depicts Rosalie Sorrels escaping an unhappy marriage, driving from Salt Lake City to San Diego with her five children to start a new life as a folk singer.
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The true part of the story was that Rosalie Sorrels certainly did drive her five children around the US in a Ford Econoline van as she toured and sang.
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Rosalie Sorrels was a long-established figure on the national folk singer-song writer scene.
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Rosalie Sorrels died on June 11,2017, at a daughter's home in Reno, Nevada.
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The Idaho Statesman closes its announcement of Rosalie Sorrels's passing with her own lyrics from My Last Go Round, a 2004 album.
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The discography for Rosalie Sorrels includes albums in which she is the principal performer as well as tribute albums, retrospective albums, and compilation albums for a theme of songs.