![]() ![]() Since 2003, she has toured her one-woman show, “The Lady and the Empress,” a musical stage play based on the life and music of blues legend, Bessie Smith. She is also an actress, songwriter, director, and promoter. ![]() Lady D has been singing since the age of three years old. She is known as West Virginia’s First Lady of Soul. She is also a graduate of Phillip’s College in Gulfport, MS with an associate degree in travel and tourism. She is a graduate of East Bank High School and West Virginia State University with a bachelor’s degree in communications. Fields, also known as Lady D, is a West Virginia native born in Kayford in Kanawha County. Brian Ferguson for the Charleston Gazette-Mailĭoris A. These apprenticeships aim to facilitate the transmission of techniques and artistry of the forms, as well as their histories and traditions.ĭoris Fields aka Lady D of Beckley is leading an apprenticeship in blues and black gospel, with Xavier Oglesby of Beckley. The West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program offers up to a $3,000 stipend to West Virginia master traditional artists or tradition bearers working with qualified apprentices on a year-long in-depth apprenticeship in their cultural expression or traditional art form. ![]() The third in a series featuring our five 2018 Folklife Apprentice pairs.
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