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Visit the Rosalie Sorrels exhibit at Boise State’s Albertsons Library through the end of August. Sorrels’ life, music, photographs and notes are part of the Idaho Folklife Collection, a collaboration between the library’s Special Collections and Archives and the Idaho Commission on the Arts. NPR ran an interview shortly after Sorrels’ death in 2017: “Rosalie always considered herself a singer more than a songwriter…She treasured traditional folklore and made her first professional reputation singing songs she had collected in Utah and Idaho, but would also tell of late-night dinners cooked for Count Basie’s musicians when they came through Salt Lake. She liked any music that related directly to people’s lives.”