Women Music March 2022 – Day 4 – Lzzy Hale of Halestorm

Lzzy in 2019, image by Sven Mandel Elizabeth Mae “Lzzy” Hale (born 10/10/83) is an American singer, musician, and songwriter. She is best known as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of hard rock band Halestorm, which she co-founded with her brother Arejay Hale in 1997. The siblings have been actively writing and performing original…

Women Music March 2022 – Day 2 – Tanya Tagaq

Tanya Tagaq, moers festival 2012, photo by michael hoefner Tanya Tagaq CM (born Tanya Tagaq Gillis, May 5, 1975), also credited as Tagaq, is a Canadian Inuk throat singer from Cambridge Bay (Iqaluktuuttiaq), Nunavut, Canada, on the south coast of Victoria Island. Tagaq was a popular performer at Canadian folk festivals, such as Folk on…

Women Music March 2022 — Day 1 — Vanessa Collier

Vanessa Collier photo by TrinidadSteve There’s a young lady came onstage with me, I forget where I was, but she’s playing an alto saxophone, and man, she was amazing. –Buddy Guy from Vanessa’s website: Those are the words of Buddy Guy in a recent issue of American Blues Scene, describing an impromptu performance with Vanessa…