Avery, Gwen, 1915-2001

  • West coast women’s music festival (raw recordings) (Reel 7 of 12)

    This is the seventh reel in the series of live raw recordings taken at the West Coast Women’s festival in 1980. Terry Garthwaite finishes her performance: “Ticket to Chicago”, “Bye-bye? (Found Another Lover To go)”. Robin Tyler makes announcements. Gwen Avery performs. Intro song (note taker didn’t catch the title), “Shout It Out”, “Sugar Mama”,…

  • West coast women’s music festival (raw recordings) (Reel 8 of 12)

    This is the eighth reel in the series of live raw recordings taken at the West Coast Women’s festival in 1980. Gwen Avery continues “Song for My Woman Friends”, [Emergency announcements], Intro and rap, “Cry No More”, “Backyard Blues”, “Heaven Is In Your Mind”, musician intros, audience participation, “On My Way” (incomplete).

  • West coast women’s music festival (raw recordings) (Reel 9 of 12)

    This is the ninth reel in the series of live raw recordings taken at the West Coast Women’s festival in 1980. Gwen Avery continues “On My Way”, “Coming Out”?.

  • West Coast Women’s Music Festival, 1980 (raw recordings)

    These twelve reels are live raw recordings taken at the West Coast Women’s festival in 1980, held in Yosemite CA September 26-28th, 1980. The festival was produced by Robin Tyler and co-produced by Torie Osborn, and two to three thousand women attended. These recordings were a joint project of Pacfica radio stations KPFA and KPFK.…

  • The Varied Voices of Black Women: an Olivia Records concert

    This is a recording of the final concert from the Olivia Records tour “The Varied Voices of Black Women,” which began in California and ended here at Medusa’s Revenge on November 7, 1978 at Medusa’s Revenge. The concert features musicians Gwen Avery, Mary Watkins, Linda Tillery and poet Pat Parker, accompanied by a band of…

  • Gwen Avery performing at KPFA

    Gospel and blues singer Gwen Avery (1943 – 2014) performs in KPFA’s Studio B on January 30, 1977. The songs are as follows: I’m a woman (Gwen Avery) — A change (Gwen Avery) — Just a closer walk (Spiritual) — Sunny (Bobby Hebb) — I will too (David Ahlers) — Missing you (David Ahlers) —…

  • Gwen Avery in Concert

    A performance by jazz and gospel singer Gwen Avery in concert at Cooper Union’s Great Hall on September 28, 1979. This was the first of three concerts that took place in fall of 1979 produced by Women’s Music Production in New York City. She performs Cry no more, You’ll find love, Do it on my…

  • Gay music for a spring night / produced by the Fruit Punch Collective.

    Performances by three San Francisco area gay musicians. Blackberri, Gwen Avery, and Steven Grossman.|GAY MUSIC FOR A SPRING NIGHT / produced by Fruit Punch Collective (Gay Men’s Radio of KPFA). – Performances of three San Francisco area Gay musicians, recorded live: Blackberri, a Black composer and performer well-known in Northern California through his performances at…