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  • The music of Witchazel

    The music of Witchazel, a Portland, Oregon women’s band. Members are: Robin Flower, Mary Wings, and Sharon Luckerman. All tracks on reel 2 appear to be from the same live performance (venue unknown). On Reel 1: 1. Medley: Little Maggie/Run Rabbit/The Cuckoo (studio version); 2. Whiskey After Breakfast (studio version); 3. Still Ain’t Satisfied (studio…

  • The Berkeley Women’s Music Collective

    The Berkeley Women’s Music Collective in concert, recorded Winter 1975. Members of the group include: Susan Shanbaum, Nancy Vogel, Debbie Lempke, Nancy Henderson, and Bonnie Lockhart. Songs performed (Reel 1): 1. SF Bank Song — Shanbaum (4:00); 2. Back to Boston — Vogel (2:00); 3. Work Song — Lockhart (3:30); 4. Harp Solo — Shanbaum…

  • The music of Witch Hazel (Part 2 of 2)

    Witchazel, a Portland, Oregon women’s band. Members are: Robin Flower, Mary Wings, and Sharon Luckerman. On this reel: 1.? 2.? 3.? 4. River Raft Song; 5. Still Ain’t Satisfied 6. Fiddle Tune-June Apple. (Recording may be pre-recorded music) Notes on box: “Sound Effects” “Changing Directions”.

  • The Berkeley Women’s Music Collective (Part 2 of 2)

    Intro: Good afternoon. This is “Ain’t I A Woman.” Today we present the Berkeley Women’s Music Collective in concert, recorded last winter. The music collective will be releasing an album through Olivia Records, and all women’s record company, this fall. Members of the group include: Susan Shanbaum, Nancy Vogel, Debbie Lempke, Nancy Henderson, and Bonnie…

  • Berkeley/Oakland Women’s Chorus live at the Working Women’s Conference

    Excerpt from a Berkeley/Oakland Women’s Chorus performance at the Working Women’s Conference, possibly in Berkeley, 1973. The Berkeley/Oakland Women’s Chorus included Bonnie Lockhart, Elaine Magree, Laurie Olsen and Janet Rachel. Songs performed are Nine to Five (written by Boston clerical workers who were organizing), a song in Spanish, and Still Ain’t Satisfied (written by Lockhart).

  • Everybody’s Studying Us (Number 2)

    Bea Frankel discusses San Francisco poet and playwright Irene Paull’s book “Everybody’s studying us: the ironies of aging in the Pepsi Generation.” Bea talks with two people from the California Association for Older Americans, Helen Boelke [sp?], program coordinator, and Jack Kaufman, staff writer for the Association, about the organization, why they published the book,…

  • Joanna Brouk / Conch Shell: the Sea at Sunset (1973)

    Joanna Brouk: Conch Shell: The Sea at Sunset (1973). Joanna Brouk was born in 1949 in St. Louis Missouri. She resides in Berkeley, California, where she composes electronic music and writes poetry. She produces a radio program on KPFA Radio incorporating music of a spiritual nature from many ethnic catagories as well as electric rock…

  • In Celebration of Black Womanhood / Aileen Hernandez

    Aileen Hernandez, former President of the National Organization for Women, and founder of the Black Women Organized for Action, gives a brilliant presentation of the problems, triumphs, and realities of life for Black women in the USA. Opens with Joyce Carol Thomas reading “A Poem for Black Women.” Hernandez is introduced by Margaret Sloan. Venue…

  • Jean Ritchie in concert (Part 1 only)

    Jean Ritchie performs folk music in concert at Freight and Salvage in Berkeley, California, April 26, 1972. Songs performed: Darby Ram — One I Love — John Riley — Sean O’Reilly from the County Leitrim — What’ll I Do With the Baby-O — The Bluebird Song — Cold Mountains — On Jordan’s Stormy Banks —…

  • Teresa Trull live at the West Coast Women’s Music Festival (year unknown)

    Teresa Trull performing at the West Coast Women’s Music Festival, September 13-16, 198?. Among the songs performed are Let It Be Known, Get Up, and Give It Up. Backing vocalists: Najla Id-Deen, Lady Bianca and Linda Tillery. Piano: Susan Muscarella. Bass: Joy Pené Julks. Guitar and percussion: June Millington. Drums: Bernice Brooks. Traps and percussion:…