Events tagged with "women's music"
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 access to bars
Pre 1960s Prior to the 1960s, and well into the 1970s there appears to have been very little opportunity indeed for lesbians to get together openly in a social or public space. All the bars noted as being popular with the gay crowd in the 40s and 50...
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 "women's music"
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...
Women's Swing Band plays Glenn Miller 1980s
Betty continued to be involved in women's music.“In the 80s there was the Women's Swing Band which was about thirteen or fourteen women, which wasn’t exclusively lesbian. I have memories of humping the speakers up those wretched stairs at the Mermaid...
Women’s music scene
Belinda was also involved in the alternative women's music scene, establishing a reputation as a lesbian feminist musician. Before she came to Birmingham “I had a brief moment of fame in London with two other women, each performing their own material...
Women’s Revolutions Per Minute (WRPM)
Women's Revolutions Per Minute (WRPM):“Music was my main occupation even though it didn’t make me any money. That happened because having been to the States I’d come back with some music, I’d been to the Michigan Music festival, and met the women who...