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| March 8th, 2008 |
| in Charles Village Time: 2:00 - 8:00 pm $8.00 to $12.00 |
Margaret Locklear-Peck
Margaret Locklear, writer, producer, director and performer noted for her poetic and
theatrical reflections on African-American history and social issues. Author of "Meet
Ms Truth" and her recent work, "Colored People's Food."
Sounding
Women Improvising World Music for Balance, Harmony & Transformation. A
multicultural group of women who love music and are aware of the healing properties
of intentional sound. Sounding is music in the moment. All of the pieces that you will
experience are created as you listen. Sounding is a feeling, an energy. It is the music
of the spheres expressed through rhythm, melody and harmony as it is experienced
in and through the various cultures of our world. From African to Celtic, from East
Indian to Native American, from Salsa to Waltz, Sounding colors the world with love
holding a constant intention to vibrate peace and joy for our planet. www.
soundingharmony.com
Gunwife Gone
Sad girl music...with boys. Five people with very different musical influences coming
together to make music that will make you want to cry or scream or belt your heart
out or all of the above. "...its totally fun piano, sax, bass, and drums vibe still
sounding pretty effing jazz-as-in-Dresden Dolls-cabaret to these ears..." - Bret
McCabe, Baltimore City Paper www.gunwifegone.com
Bread & Roses Feminist Singers
Founded in 1978 as the DC Area Feminist Chorus, Bread and Roses Feminist
Singers is committed to activism and advocacy through music. Members recognize
that improving as musicians and acting as trustees of the chorus are necessary to
reach these goals. We are both voices raised in song and voices carrying our
mission forward. Bread and Roses, a non-audition chorus performing in an SSAA
framework, facilitates understanding, acceptance, and cooperation among people of
diverse lifestyles through the medium of music. Using feminist principles and
consensus decision making, and supports its members as they work toward musical
excellence and sustain a vital non-profit organization. http://www.geocities.
com/mieloerge/bnrhome.html
Odd Girl Out
I know what you’re thinking. Female musician: some timid little thing singing her
pretty, melodic folk songs, strumming her acoustic guitar in a coffee shop. No, wrong.
Take that girl and load her up on caffeine. Grow her up on Joan Jett and Letters to
Cleo; Hole and Green Day; Led Zeppelin and Heart. Now piss her off: take that
acoustic guitar and smash it. Tell her girls can’t play, let alone rock. Push her right up
to the edge. Now hand her an electric guitar, crank up the volume, and surround her
with a band of the same. That’s Baltimore-based Odd Girl Out: 5 girls, 60% power-
pop, 30% bubblegum-punk, 10% melodic rock, and 100% tired of playing by your
rules since 2004. OGO is Tawni on lead vocals, Bethany Petri on drums and vocals,
Eva Blackmer on bass guitar and vocals, Kristen Brzowsky on lead guitar and vocals,
and Selena Benally on guitar and vocals.
www.oddgirlout.net
K. Love & WAHHT!
K Love created and spends much time and energy building up a buddy social
business called We Are Hip Hop Too! It focuses on bringing awareness to various
communities about LGBTQ women in hip hop culture while providing promotion and
development opportunities for LGBTQ female artists. Make sure to check out one of
our shows. Equality, visibility, & development for LGBTQ women in Hip Hop Culture!
www.wearehiphoptoo.com
The Stalking Horses
Sarah Pinsker got tired of playing solo coffeehouse shows, so she plugged her
acoustic guitar into a DOD stompbox and recruited a band from DC post-punk scene
and the Baltimore rock clubs, combining intelligent songcraft with savage rock & roll.
Sarah Pinsker & the Stalking Horses have gained a reputation for their energetic live
show, playing bills from New York to Texas with Antigone Rising, Michelle Malone,
and more. Their music has been described as "blissfully ragged melodicism"
(Baltimore Magazine) and compared to U2, Joan Jett, and Sixteen Horsepower.
Sarah's first CD was produced by SONIA of disappear fear and released on SONiA's
disappear records. The Stalking Horses will release their first full album this spring.
www.stalkinghorses.com
Dirty Mothers
A soiled woman, as with dirt, who conceives, gives birth to or raises children...Dirty
Mothers acquired their name a few years back when exploring higher consciousness
in a moon bounce. Upon exiting the inflated womblike ride their clothes tattered,
sides splitting, chanting their new found mantra: "One big vagina, dirty mother,
coming at you, never turn your back on her," they graduated from the band name
Medusa's Son and firmly planted themselves at the altar of the Dirty Mother. The
sound of DM's is a unique hybrid of folky organic trip hop, combining strong female
lyrics with soulful acoustic bass, rap/spoken word, acoustic guitar and hand drums.
www.myspace/com/dirtymotherproductions
Oracleyes
Kelly Ann Richmond is a Baltimore born artist, dancer, and musician. She began
music as the singer of Platoon. She started a project called Blue Star Kachina
playing guitar and singing her own compositions. Soon after she joined up with
Tryst, she began moving toward a more electronic style. She is in a solo project
called Oracleyes which embraces an electronic style messed with dance
performance. Elaborate sets and art performance are always a part of the
experience. Her goal with art is to express herself in as many mediums and create a
full sensory experience for the viewer while bringing all genres of people together.
She is idealistic and wants every soul to know our liberation is of our own creation.
Change is as easy as perceiving.
Margaret Locklear, writer, producer, director and performer noted for her poetic and
theatrical reflections on African-American history and social issues. Author of "Meet
Ms Truth" and her recent work, "Colored People's Food."
Sounding
Women Improvising World Music for Balance, Harmony & Transformation. A
multicultural group of women who love music and are aware of the healing properties
of intentional sound. Sounding is music in the moment. All of the pieces that you will
experience are created as you listen. Sounding is a feeling, an energy. It is the music
of the spheres expressed through rhythm, melody and harmony as it is experienced
in and through the various cultures of our world. From African to Celtic, from East
Indian to Native American, from Salsa to Waltz, Sounding colors the world with love
holding a constant intention to vibrate peace and joy for our planet. www.
soundingharmony.com
Gunwife Gone
Sad girl music...with boys. Five people with very different musical influences coming
together to make music that will make you want to cry or scream or belt your heart
out or all of the above. "...its totally fun piano, sax, bass, and drums vibe still
sounding pretty effing jazz-as-in-Dresden Dolls-cabaret to these ears..." - Bret
McCabe, Baltimore City Paper www.gunwifegone.com
Bread & Roses Feminist Singers
Founded in 1978 as the DC Area Feminist Chorus, Bread and Roses Feminist
Singers is committed to activism and advocacy through music. Members recognize
that improving as musicians and acting as trustees of the chorus are necessary to
reach these goals. We are both voices raised in song and voices carrying our
mission forward. Bread and Roses, a non-audition chorus performing in an SSAA
framework, facilitates understanding, acceptance, and cooperation among people of
diverse lifestyles through the medium of music. Using feminist principles and
consensus decision making, and supports its members as they work toward musical
excellence and sustain a vital non-profit organization. http://www.geocities.
com/mieloerge/bnrhome.html
Odd Girl Out
I know what you’re thinking. Female musician: some timid little thing singing her
pretty, melodic folk songs, strumming her acoustic guitar in a coffee shop. No, wrong.
Take that girl and load her up on caffeine. Grow her up on Joan Jett and Letters to
Cleo; Hole and Green Day; Led Zeppelin and Heart. Now piss her off: take that
acoustic guitar and smash it. Tell her girls can’t play, let alone rock. Push her right up
to the edge. Now hand her an electric guitar, crank up the volume, and surround her
with a band of the same. That’s Baltimore-based Odd Girl Out: 5 girls, 60% power-
pop, 30% bubblegum-punk, 10% melodic rock, and 100% tired of playing by your
rules since 2004. OGO is Tawni on lead vocals, Bethany Petri on drums and vocals,
Eva Blackmer on bass guitar and vocals, Kristen Brzowsky on lead guitar and vocals,
and Selena Benally on guitar and vocals.
www.oddgirlout.net
K. Love & WAHHT!
K Love created and spends much time and energy building up a buddy social
business called We Are Hip Hop Too! It focuses on bringing awareness to various
communities about LGBTQ women in hip hop culture while providing promotion and
development opportunities for LGBTQ female artists. Make sure to check out one of
our shows. Equality, visibility, & development for LGBTQ women in Hip Hop Culture!
www.wearehiphoptoo.com
The Stalking Horses
Sarah Pinsker got tired of playing solo coffeehouse shows, so she plugged her
acoustic guitar into a DOD stompbox and recruited a band from DC post-punk scene
and the Baltimore rock clubs, combining intelligent songcraft with savage rock & roll.
Sarah Pinsker & the Stalking Horses have gained a reputation for their energetic live
show, playing bills from New York to Texas with Antigone Rising, Michelle Malone,
and more. Their music has been described as "blissfully ragged melodicism"
(Baltimore Magazine) and compared to U2, Joan Jett, and Sixteen Horsepower.
Sarah's first CD was produced by SONIA of disappear fear and released on SONiA's
disappear records. The Stalking Horses will release their first full album this spring.
www.stalkinghorses.com
Dirty Mothers
A soiled woman, as with dirt, who conceives, gives birth to or raises children...Dirty
Mothers acquired their name a few years back when exploring higher consciousness
in a moon bounce. Upon exiting the inflated womblike ride their clothes tattered,
sides splitting, chanting their new found mantra: "One big vagina, dirty mother,
coming at you, never turn your back on her," they graduated from the band name
Medusa's Son and firmly planted themselves at the altar of the Dirty Mother. The
sound of DM's is a unique hybrid of folky organic trip hop, combining strong female
lyrics with soulful acoustic bass, rap/spoken word, acoustic guitar and hand drums.
www.myspace/com/dirtymotherproductions
Oracleyes
Kelly Ann Richmond is a Baltimore born artist, dancer, and musician. She began
music as the singer of Platoon. She started a project called Blue Star Kachina
playing guitar and singing her own compositions. Soon after she joined up with
Tryst, she began moving toward a more electronic style. She is in a solo project
called Oracleyes which embraces an electronic style messed with dance
performance. Elaborate sets and art performance are always a part of the
experience. Her goal with art is to express herself in as many mediums and create a
full sensory experience for the viewer while bringing all genres of people together.
She is idealistic and wants every soul to know our liberation is of our own creation.
Change is as easy as perceiving.
