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    • Jun 1, 1935
    Hazel Dickens is born in Mercer County, West Virginia. A bluegrass and folk vocal icon, she contributes to the movie "Harlan County, U.S.A." and earns a National Heritage Award in 2008
    Oct 18, 1976
    "Harlan County, U.S.A." debuts at the Toronto Film Festival. A documentary of a violent miners strike in Kentucky, the movie's soundtrack features music by Hazel Dickens and Merle Travis
    Jan 23, 2001
    Vanguard releases the "Songcatcher" soundtrack, with Emmylou Harris, Sara Evans, Patty Loveless, Deana Carter, Dolly Parton, Allison Moorer, Rosanne Cash, Julie Miller, Hazel Dickens, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings
    Sep 21, 2001
    West Virginia bluegrass singer Hazel Dickens receives a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, D.C.
    Mar 14, 2003
    The Country Music Foundation issues "Heartaches By The Number," celebrating country's "500 greatest singles." Among the lesser-known acts on the list: Hazel Dickens, with "They'll Never Keep Us Down"; and The Shelton Brothers, with "Just Because"
    Nov 16, 2007
    Little Jimmy Dickens heads the first class of 10 inductees in the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame, honored at Charleston's Cultural Center Theater. Also added: Billy Edd Wheeler, Hazel Dickens, Johnnie Johnson, Molly O'Day and Blind Alfred Reed
    Apr 22, 2011
    Hazel Dickens dies in Washington, D.C., of complications from pneumonia. A mining icon, she provided music for the award-winning picture "Harlan County, U.S.A." and inspired Kathy Mattea and The Judds
    Sep 22, 2019
    Bluegrass is represented by Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs' "Foggy Mountain Rock," The New Lost City Rambers' "On Some Foggy Mountain Top" and Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard's "Tomorrow I'll Be Gone" during episode five of the PBS series "Country Music: A Film By Ken Burns"
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