Libby Roderick

Libby Roderick

Roderick as a guest on a Portland, Maine radio station in 2007.
Background information
Birth name Elizabeth Roderick
Born c. 1958 (age 58–59)
Origin Anchorage, Alaska, U.S.
Genres Folk
Occupation(s) Singer, songwriter
Instruments singing, guitar
Years active 1985–present
Labels Turtle Island Records
Website www.libbyroderick.com

Libby Roderick (born 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, recording artist, poet, activist, and teacher. The global impact of her song "How Could Anyone" has been featured on CNN, on CBS, and in the Associated Press. Her music has been featured at the U.N. Conference on Women, with Coretta Scott King and Walter Cronkite in Washington D.C., and played on Mars by NASA. She has toured extensively throughout North America, playing at folk venues, conferences, and universities. She was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska where she still lives part of the time. Her father, John "Jack" Roderick, a Yale football star, was mayor of the Greater Anchorage Area Borough, and her late mother, Martha, was a renowned Alaska educator. Libby graduated summa cum laude from Yale University in American Studies, and has worked as a TV and print news reporter, radio consultant, nuclear weapons educator and writer on Alaska Native issues.

Discography

Studio albums

Compilations

Compilations featuring Libby Roderick songs

Includes "Low to the Ground" from Thinking Like a Mountain (1991). Other participants: Greg Wagner, Magpie, Susan Grace, Dakota Sid Clifford, Karen Goldberg, David Elias, Alice DiMicele, John McCutcheon, Lydia Adams Davis, Peter Berryman & Lou Berryman, Joanne Rand, Dana Lyons, Walkin' Jim Stoltz, Paul Winter

Songbook

Writings

References

    Further reading

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