Flora Purim photo by Lindy Pollard Flora Purim (b. 3/6/42) is a Brazilian jazz singer known primarily for her work in the jazz fusion style. She became prominent for her part in Return to Forever with Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke. She has recorded and performed with numerous artists, including Dizzy Gillespie, Gil Evans, Opa,…
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Women Music March 2023 – Day 9 – Buffy Sainte Marie
Buffy Sainte-Marie played the Peterborough Summer Festival of Lights on June 24, 2009 image link Buffy Sainte-Marie, CC (b. Beverly Sainte-Marie on 2/20/41) is an Indigenous Canadian-American (Piapot Cree Nation) singer-songwriter, musician, composer, visual artist, educator, pacifist, and social activist. While working in these areas, her work has focused on issues facing Indigenous peoples of…
Women Music March 2023 – Day 8 – Nicole Atkins
Nicole Atkins performs at La Zona Rosa during SXSW in Austin, Texas on March 18, 2010 Nicole Atkins (b. 10/1/78) is an American singer-songwriter. Her influences include 1950s crooner music, 1960s psychedelia, soul music, and the Brill Building style of writing. Atkins has been compared to Roy Orbison and singers from the Brill Building era….
Women Music March 2023 – Day 7 – Pauline Oliveros
Pauline Oliveros Pauline Oliveros (b. 5/30/32 – d. 11/24/16) was an American composer, accordionist and a central figure in the development of post-war experimental and electronic music. She was a founding member of the San Francisco Tape Music Center in the 1960s, and served as its director. She taught music at Mills College, the University…
Women Music March 2023 – Day 6 – ani defranco
ani defranco image link quote link Angela Maria “Ani” DiFranco (b. 9/23/70) is an American-Canadian singer-songwriter. DiFranco’s music has been classified as folk rock and alternative rock, although it has additional influences from punk, funk, hip hop and jazz. She has released all her albums on her own record label, Righteous Babe. Early Life: She…
Women Music March 2023 – Day 5 – L7
L7 (l to r): Suzi Gardner, Donita Sparks, Dee Plakas, Jennifer Finch “Eat my used tamp*n, f***ers!”– Donita Sparks at the 1992 Reading Festival L7 is an American all-female rock band founded in Los Angeles, California, first active from 1985 to 2001 and re-formed in 2014. Their longest standing lineup consists of Suzi Gardner, Donita…
Women Music March 2023 – Day 4 – Olivia Chaney
Olivia Chaney photo from 2010, taken at The Purcell Room Interview with Olivia Chaney (instead of a quote) here. I wrote about Olivia back in 2019, which you can read (and hear one of my favorite songs by her) here I’ve got, “Offa Rex” (her collaboration with The Decemberists) and her solo album, “Shelter.” Discography:…
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