Events tagged with "Caroline Hutton"
Olivia Records founded in USA
Olivia Records was founded in the USA to produce and distribute 'Women's Music' predominantly music by lesbians. The original collective, which included the singer Meg Christian, had little experience in record production but went on to bring lesbian...
Rubyfruit singing group is formed
During the 1970s, women's music was increasingly used as a means of political expression.Three Birmingham lesbians, Betty Hagglund, Caroline Hutton and Lorna Eady formed a singing group called Rubyfruit (named after Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown...
Women's Music
Women's Music - (also sometimes known as wimmin's or wombyn's music), was really a euphemism for music made by lesbians. Introduced in the 1970s and popular throughout the 1980s, many American lesbian singer-song-writers' music reached Birmingham via...
Memories tagged with "Caroline Hutton"
Birmingham Lesbian Song c.1978
Birmingham Lesbian Song by Caroline Hutton, Lorna Eady and Betty Hagglund (local group ‘Rubyfruit’) - to be sung to the tune of ‘Lily Marlene’ I brought up my family, I left my old man And then set up house with my lover Suzanne Me and the kids we...
Rubyfruit played Birmingham and Chicago
“Rubyfruit consisted of Caroline Hutton, Lorna Eady and myself. Rubyfruit came about because some of us had been to Frankie Armstrong’s voice workshops; Caroline Hutton took me along, so there was already this interest in women's music, and all those...
Sociable crowd at the Greyhound in 1975
Gill: “Very fortunately, though he didn’t know it, my husband had decided he would have the children on Tuesday evenings, so that left me free to go to The Greyhound (laughter). It had just started, around 1975; and you (Betty) were going to The Grey...