It’s 1970. In the aftermath of a devastating year, the girls begin finding their footing in lives that look nothing like the ones they once imagined. A wedding brings Roz and Elle back to Nashville for the first time in years. Old friendships are rekindled, but the distance between their worlds is impossible to ignore. And in New Orleans, Sylvia wrestles with the growing divide between the girl she once was and the woman she is becoming.
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Featuring performances by:
Cynthia Ergenbright as Joni McKay
Janice Lynn Sykes as Roz Mitchell
Katy Yoder as Elle Harrison
Stacey Lightman as Randi McMillan
Gervais Weekes as Charles Richardson
Kimberly Conway as Kat Singleton
Rachanee Lumayno - Opening and Closing Narration
Mixing and mastering by Rick Such.
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What is Higher Grounds?
In 1993, rock frontwoman Elle Harrison was found dead at Higher Grounds, the Nashville coffeehouse she owned with her three best friends. Authorities ruled it a suicide. Few believed that. Thirty years later, the remaining women break their silence for the first time. Told through candid interviews, Higher Grounds is an intimate oral history of lifelong friendship, ambition, and impossible choices, tracing four women’s lives from girlhood to the explosive moment everything came undone.