West coast women’s music festival / produced by Linda Mack.


  • 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 (raw recordings) (Reel 10 of 12)

    This is the tenth reel in the series of live raw recordings taken at the West Coast Women’s festival in 1980. Izquierda Ensemble performs the following: (they segue many of their songs and poems without much break) “Like a Mountain”, “Pam”, “The Leaving”, “Songs from a Dying Star”, “Johnny Get Angry”, ??, poems, “Every Day[?]”,…


  • West coast women’s music festival (raw recordings) (Reel 11 of 12)

    This is the eleventh reel in the series of live raw recordings taken at the West Coast Women’s festival in 1980. Izquierda Ensemble continues with their rap about experiences grown up female, then a song (title unknown), “Power to our Intuition”, “Looking to be Free”, Robin Tyler announces “Izquierda Ensemble”, Andrea Floyd.


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

    This is the twelfth and final reel in the series of live raw recordings taken at the West Coast Women’s festival in 1980. Alive! performs the following [Robin and Tory introduce] “Sail Away”, jam, “Step By Step”, “Mother Earth”, “Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven”, “Got To Be Willing”, “Wild Women”, “Yamaya”, six minutes of…


  • West coast women’s music festival (raw recordings) (Reel 5 of 12)

    This is numbered as the next (fifth) reel in the series of live raw recordings taken at the West Coast Women’s festival in 1980, however, according to this article: http://queermusicheritage.com/wmf-westcoast.html Terry Garthwaite performed after Gwen Avery. Notes say Garthwaite performed the following: “All Night Long”, [intro and talks about being a mother], “You Don’t Know…


  • West coast women’s music festival (raw recordings) (Reel 6 of 12)

    This is the sixth reel in the series of live raw recordings taken at the West Coast Women’s festival in 1980. Terry Garthwaite continues her performance with (according to note found with tape) “I’ll Never Fall In Love Again”, [spacey guitar and flute], “Falling In Love(?)”, [Emergency Announcement], “This Old Heart (Wants to Love Somebody”,…


  • 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.…


  • West coast women’s music festival (raw recordings) (Reel 2 of 12)

    This is the second reel of live raw recordings taken at the West Coast Women’s festival in 1980. Casselberry and Dupree continue with “Take it to the Limit,” then “Corrine”, and an African song. Announcements by festival producer Robin Tyler. Next is singer Dovida Ishatova. She performs “Schizo[?] in D Major”, ?, “Amazon.