Celebrating Twenty Years of the Alabama Folk Arts Apprenticeship ...

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Enoch Sullivan
St. Stephens
Bluegrass Gospel
Margie Sullivan
St. Stephens
Bluegrass Gospel
Margie and Enoch Sullivan are pioneers of bluegrass gospel music. Born in Winnsboro, Louisiana, Margie
began traveling at age 13 with evangelist Hazel Chain, singing and playing guitar at camp meetings and
revivals. She married fiddle and mandolin player Enoch Sullivan and they performed with his father, the
Reverend Arthur Sullivan, until his death in 1957. Margie and Enoch have performed together for more
than 58 years as the Sullivan Family band, playing for congregations in small country churches as well as
entertaining audiences at festivals across the U.S. They have appeared on the Grand Ole Opry and were
inducted into Bill Monroe’s Bluegrass Hall of Fame and the Old Time Country Music Hall of Fame. In 2005
they received the Alabama Folk Heritage Award from the Alabama State Council on the Arts and a
Distinguished Achievement Award from the International Bluegrass Music Association. They continue to
keep a busy touring schedule and to teach young musicians in the bluegrass gospel tradition.