RIP: Del Martin 1921-2008

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/28/MNGI12JDIS.DTL

We have lost a champion...goddess bless Del and gentle hugs and support to her life mate Phyllis.

fm band expands?

From The Medium is the Message byEric Schnell.

Schnell thinks that if the FCC expands the FM band to take over analog channels it might increase the number of community radio stations. Viva diversity!

Two Live Broadcasts from WEFT 90.1

Live From the Streets of Minneapolis – St. Paul
4-6PM - Tuesday, September 2 WEFT 90.1FM
March and Rally @ The Republican National Convention

Live coverage and interviews of the upcoming march built around economic
themes. Participants will include homeless people, disabled people,
truckers who can't make money anymore with the price of fuel, people with
no health insurance, union activists and many others, feeling the effects
of current socio-economic policies.

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WEFT-FEST 2008 - Sunday, September 7
WEFT 90.1FM @ Mike-n-Molly’s Beer Garden
Market St. & University Ave., Downtown Champaign
Free Music All Day Long! Live On Air Broadcast!

2 PM: Conservatory of Central IL. (classical music)
3 PM: Little Oy on the Prairie (klezmer music)
4 PM: Close to Home (country music)
5 PM: Mark McCormick Jazz Group
6 PM: Deak Harp Blues Band
7 PM: Curb Service (downtempo turntablistic riddles)
8 PM: New Ruins (rock music)
9 PM: Living Blue (rock music)

Congratulations, Phyllis and Del

(06-16) 18:33 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- Cheers filled San Francisco's City Hall shortly after 5 p.m. as longtime lesbian activists Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin, partners for more than 50 years, began their second wedding - and their first legal union.

Mayor Gavin Newsom, who officiated the ceremony in the reception area of his office, said it was a fitting way to memorialize last month's state Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage in California, which took effect at 5:01 p.m.

Lyon, 83, and Martin, 87, were the first couple married four years ago when Newsom told the county clerk's office to start offering marriage certificates to same-sex couple

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/16/MNPQ11A3VF.DTL&tsp=1

Lyon and Martin have been lesbian together as partners since the 1950's and are the founders of the lesbian group Daughters of Bilitis.

For more information see this wiki article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del_Martin_and_Phyllis_Lyon

WMW Playlist June 8, 2008 Barb

WEFT is back!!!!!!!

The transmitter is still being unhappy but we started broadcasting again on Saturday afternoon.

1. You Asked Me To Allison Krauss I've Always Been Crazy
2. Sail Away Women in Docs Red Wine and Postcards
3. Brain Damage Waifs Magnetic Love
4. Big City Lights Rebecca Pronsky departures & arrivals
5. Sweet Woman Cris Williamson Live in Concert
6. Ferris Wheel Rachel Sage Ballads and Burlesque
7. Lovers of Today Pretenders Isle of View
8. Dear Heart Patty Larkin Watch the Sky
9. Revolver Nora O'Connor Til the Dawn
10. Long Time Friends Nancy Hill Not Just Music
11. They Don't Thrill Me Like You Do Nancy Cassidy So Much Weather
12. Underneath a Red Moon N'dea Davenport Lilith Fair v3
13. One Hour Mama Maria Muldaur Naughty, Bawdy and Blue
14. Testify Melissa Etheridge Brave and Crazy
15. Sweet Darlin' Woman Meg Christian Best of Meg Christian
16. Honey Chile Lucinda Williams Going Home: a tribute to Fats Domino
17. Old Man Lizz Wright Dreaming Wide Awake
18. Sunday Morning Coming Down Katie Moore Only Thing Worse
19. Vapor Angels Kathy Mar Plus Ca Change; Plus C'est La Meme Chose (2cd set)
20. Woodstock Julie Christensen & Stone Cupid Where the Fireworks Are
21. Survivors Song Julia Ecklar Divine Intervention
22. Crimson and Crystal Julia Ecklar Divine Intervention
23. Gee I'm Glad I'm Me Judy Fjell Livin' on Dreams
24. Ladies of the Canyon Joni Mitchell Ladies of the Canyon
25. Supermodel Jill Soubule Jill Sobule
26. While We Are Here Jennifer Berezan Borderlines
27. Stars Janis Ian Working Without a Net 2disc)
28. Power of Two Indigo Girls Boys on the Side Soundtrack

Off the Air

Due to a lightning incident, WEFT is off the air until probably Tuesday so there will be no WMW on Sunday June 1. Tune in on June 8 for more womyn's music and music by women.

Kudos to the Programming Committee and WEFT

Last Friday night was the WEFT Volunteer Appreciation Party and it was great. Many wefties attended. The committee provided pizza and beverages and the volunteers (who else) brought dessert. Great fun was had by all...I recommend WEFT volunteering as a source of inspiration and amusement.

We got a preview of the new front studio (it's not quite ready yet) and it is going to totally rock. I'm going to feel like I'm on the bridge of the Enterprise when I sit at the console.

Personal note: I did WMW yesterday from my laptop. I did mostly okay...we were even able to transition from my laptop to the host of "Journey: Music of Greece"'s laptop with scarcely a break. YAY, me!

Connies Hot Flashes on Movies

Two thrillers on DVD from Spain:

The Orphanage is a carefully paced supernatural thriller about a mother who returns to her childhood orphanage to open a home for the disabled. But, her son mysteriously goes missing and mom insists his imaginary playmates had something to do with it. The heart of the movie lies in Laura’s performance, who is grief-stricken and guilt ridden about innocent mistakes from childhood where eerie clues may lead her toward finding her boy. Creepy and moving.

The Devil's Backbone is a major league fear inducing tale with political and allegorical meanings. A boy ghost, an impotent caretaker, his peg legged co-administrator, and an evil gardener will spook you with repeated jolts and unsettled feelings. Will the orphans ever be safe from the evil forces within the orphanage? How about that un-detonated bomb in the garden? Guillermo Dell Toro of "Pan's Labyrinth" offers up a winner from several years back.

Forget chainsaws and gimmicky evil tricksters, these two are the real deal!

Recommendations for reviews always welcome.

connie

barb's playlist may 4, 2008

Track Artist Album

1. Blackbird Evan Rachel Wood Across the Universe
2. Don't Cry for Me Argentina Sinead O'Connor am I not your girl
3. My Mind is Out to Get Me Margie Adam Best of
4. Sunday Morning Elizabeth Cook Balls
5. Eulogy for My Next Lover Brenda Kahn Goldfish Don't Talk Back
6. Tapestry Carole King Tapestry
7. Love is Wide Carrie Newcomer Betty's Diner
8. One Woman and a Shovel Carrie Newcomer Betty's Diner
9. Lost Voices Cathy Winter Breath on My Fire
10. Democrazy Chaka Khan group Come 2 My House
11. Damaged Goods Christine Lavin Future Fossils
12. If You Could Read My Mind Connie Kaldo Beautiful: Gordon Lightfoot Tribute
13. Would You Like to Dance Deidre McCalla With a Little Luck
14. Oscar Song Rebecca Pronsky departures & arrivals
15. Diamonds and Rust Joan Baez Diamonds and Rust
16. Wake Up Little Sparrow Lizz Wright Dreaming Wide Awake
17. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter Madeleine Peyroux Dreamland
18. Lifetime of Song Heather Alexander Everafter
19. Two Tongues at One Time Mariee Sioux Faces in the Rocks
20. For the Benefit of Time Lisabeth Weber Maggie Marshall The Firetower Sessions
21. And So It Goes Priscilla Herdman Ragtime Gal
22. Free to Be Marlo Thomas and Friends Free to Be…You and Me
23. Not Until the Wind Changes Maggie's Farm Glory Road
24. Second Fiddle Mother Folkers Live at the Arveida Center
25. Safe, Strong and Free Judy Fjell Livin' on Dreams
26. As Cool As I Am Dar Williams Mortal City
27. House of the Rising Sun Nina Simone Nina Simone Sings the Blues
28. If I Was the Woman You Wanted Nanci Griffith There's a Light Beyond These Woods
29. Getting Older Katie Moore Only Thing Worse
30. Velveteen Kathy Mar Plus Ca Change; Plus C'est La Meme Chose (2cd set)
31. Little Green Eyes Kathy Mar Plus Ca Change; Plus C'est La Meme Chose (2cd set)
32. Displacement Pamela Hines Trio Return
33. I Just Want to Make Love to You Heart The Road Home

WMW playlist 4/27/2008 barb's playlist

Track Artist Album

1. Xenophobia A'Lea Great Big World
2. How to find a rainbow Adie Grey …how to find a rainbow
3. Beautiful Songs Amanda Mabro Superwoman in the Making
4. Are You Experienced Belly Stone Free-a Jimi Hendrix tribute
5. Matthew Janis Ian Billies Bones
6. One and One Makes Three Jennifer Berezan Borderlines
7. Storms Never Last Jessi Coulter I've Always Been Crazy (tribute to Waylon Jennings)
8. Parlez-moi D'amour Linda Ronstadt Ann Savoy Adieu False Heart
9. Get Together Lizz Wright Dreaming Wide Awake
10. 19 Miles to Baghdad Lizzy West & the New Buffalo Spreading the Seeds-10th Anniversary
11. Living in the Moment Meg Christian Best of Meg Christian
12. Lovin' You Minnie Riperton Best of
13. Song For Rembered Heroes Nanci Griffith There's a Light Beyond These Woods
14. Love Letters Nora O'Connor Til the Dawn
15. Hymn to Her Pretenders Isle of View
16. Little Perennials Indigo Girls Despite Our Differences
17. If I Had a Heart Joni Mitchell Shine
18. Lay Down (Candles in the Rain) Melanie Best of Melanie
19. Gone Rebecca Pronsky departures & arrivals
20. Obviously soNIA No Bomb is Smart
21. The Winter It Is Past Susan McKeown Sweet Liberty
22. Foot of the Bed Tres Chicas Sweetwater
23. Don't Think Twice Waifs Magnetic Love
24. A New Marilyn Vonda Shepard Vonda Shepard
25. Magic Tina Dico Live Sessions (itunes exclusive)
26. May Queen Three Weird Sisters Hair of the Frog
27. Thanking the Universe Nicole Mitchell Black Unstoppable

Connie's Hot Flashes on Movies

Run Time 4:21 minutes- Tuesday 6:30AM Wednesday 7:30AM and Friday 6PM

CANVAS (a free screening at the Virginia on 4-27 at 4:30)

Also an Ebertfest choice, CANVAS looks in on a family dealing with the mother's schizophrenia where a normal home life is impossible because of it. The son is teased at school, the Dad has no emotional support system, and the unstable mom is hospitalized. The family portrays a down to earth slice of reality; the ending is a bit too upbeat to mirror reality, but it's a solid little film about how a family and the world deal with mental illness.

FOUR MONTHS, THREE WEEKS, AND TWO DAYS (at the Boardman)

a tough movie watching experience that directly deals with the abortion topic. Unlike American directors who insist upon happy endings when an unexpected pregnancy surfaces (Juno, Knocked Up, Waitress), this Romanian film takes it on in an unflinching manner- haunting and aesthetically powerful. Won many international awards (Cannes, etc.) but totally shunned by our "wonderful" Oscar Committee. Go figure.

National Women's Music Festival

http://www.wiaonline.org/home.htm

The National Women's Music Festival is right around the corner. This year it is in wonderful Madison, Wisconsin!!!!

June 19-22. Click on the link for more information!!!!

digitization and music...the future

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-price/the-democratization-of-th_b_93065.html

Jeff Price, who started his own record label in 1991 when he was in high school and is now the CEO of TuneCore, just posted this article to the Huffington Post. He talks about the way it's changed, the marketing of music, that is.

For the past century, artists could record, manufacture, market, and, to some degree, promote their own music, but no matter if they were The Beatles, Elvis or Led Zepplin, they could not distribute it and get in placed on the shelves of the stores across the country; the required costs and infrastructure of the physical world were just too massive -- a 500,00 square foot warehouse staffed with 30 people, trucks and inventory systems, insurance, a field staff of 30 people walking to music stores leveraging, begging, pleading and paying to get the CD, album, 8-track, wax spool, etc., on the precious shelves of the retail stores -- and checking up afterwards. Distribution was out of the hands of any one person, no matter how dedicated or wealthy. Without the music available to buy, there was no way for it to sell.

Record labels made artists famous and made money off that fame by selling the music -- without the music available to buy, there was no way for it to sell. The record labels exclusively had the relationships with the distributors (and in the case of the "four major record labels" the same company owns both). Therefore, with only one means to the desired end, the goal for many artists was to get "signed" to a label.

Record labels were in a very unique position of power due to their exclusive access to distribution, they were not only the singular gatekeepers to a career for an artist by "signing" them to an exclusive contract, but they were also the subjective "deciders" as to what music was pushed out and promoted to the media outlets. With a "signing," the labels acquired exclusive rights to and from the artist. In return, the label advanced money while providing the relationships, expertise and infrastructure to record, manufacture, market, promote, distribute and sell the music. Of all the artists and music creators in the world, far less than 1% got chosen by the labels due to the risks and economics of the "brick and mortar" world. Of all the music created around the globe, even less has had the opportunity to be discovered and heard by the masses.

And then the world changed thanks to the Internet and digital media.......

As i read the article I realized even more strongly just how important it is for our listener supported, volunteer operated radio station to implement our digital music library as soon as we possibly can.

The Music Industry and the Future

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-price/the-democratization-of-th_b_93065.html

This article in the Huffington Post talks

PSA: Red Herring Reunion

If you were in Chambana Illinois back in the day, or if you know anyone who was, this may interest you. The Red Herring Coffeehouse, one of two continuously operating coffeehouses in the area since the 1960's is having a reunion April 11-14. It's going to be a blast.

WMW 3/16/2008 Mothers, Daughters, Sisters Friends

Song Artist Album
1. You've Got a Friend Carole King Tapestry
2. A Mother Knows Alix Dobkin Love and Politics
3. Music in My Mothers House Holly Near Ronnie Gilbert This Train Still Runs
4. Three Women Carrie Newcomer Betty's Diner
5. Daughters of Feminists Cathy Fink Marcy Marxer A Parent's Home Companion
6. Dear Mom Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer A Parent's Home Companion
7. Sometimes Mother Really
Does Know Best Christine Lavin Sometimes Mother Really Does Know best
8. Circle of Friends Cris Williamson Live in Concert
9. Mama's Hands Three Weird Sisters Hair of the Frog
10. Sister Cris Williamson Live in Concert
11. Family Dar Williams Mortal City
12. My Mother's Hands Four Bitchin' Babes Fax It! Charge It!
13. Best of Friends Gerri Gribi The Gerri Gribi Songbook
14. If You Love a Hippopotamus Heather Bishop Belly Button
15. The Women Are Singing Tonight Cris Williamson Fringe
16. Something About the Women Holly Near Simply Love
17. There's a Light Beyond
These Woods Mary Margaret Nanci Griffith There's a Light Beyond These Woods
18. Children and all that Jazz Joan Baez Diamonds and Rust
19. Velveteen Kathy Mar Plus Ca Change; Plus C'est La Meme Chose (2cd set)
20. The Mother Peggy Seeger An Odd Collection
21. Daughters and Sons Kathy Mar My Favorite Sings
22. My Mom's a Feminist Kristen Lems Equality Road
23. Sisters Dancing Together Leslie Fish Skybound
24. Mama I'm Coming Home Lily Holbrook Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt
25. Friendship Waltz Lui Collins Stone by Stone
26. Sweet Friend Margie Adam Best of
27. Soul Sister Mary Black Looking Back

Notable Lesbians in Women's Music

Found this when I followed a YouTube Link of Holly Near singing on Hecate's blog. Amazing!

Notes on WMW 3/2/2008

Womyn Making Waves 3/2/2008 In Celebration of Women’s History Month

In 1975, Bruce Springsteen released his breakthrough album, Born to Run. Donna Summer went to the top of her charts with the steamy disco classic “Love to Love You Baby.” David Bowie’s funky meditation on “Fame” went to number one. And the fledgling Olivia Records released their second full-length album, Cris Williamson’s The Changer and the Changed.

The Changer and the Changed was also produced entirely by women, from co-producers Margie Adam and Meg Christian (famous for her song “Ode to a Gym Teacher”) to assistant engineer Judy Dlugacz, now president of Olivia Travel, Inc. A 1975 review of the album in the feminist magazine Off Our Backs praised the album’s all-woman production, stating, “More than 40 women (and furred and feathered friends) are credited with assistance; the faces of those pictured on the inside jacket are a welcome sight when so many other women musicians are parading their stuff before all-male bands.” (afterellen.com-May 2005, Malinda Lo)

Song of the Soul was also the name of the show that I did on WEFT from 1986-1991. It was on in a couple of different places on the grid, but it was mostly on from 6-8 on Saturday morning, where it was known as “the other women’s music show on WEFT.”

Alix Dobkin's album Lavender Jane Loves Women (Women's Wax Works, 1973) was one of the first women’s music cd’s, even before Meg and Cris.

Chicago’s Minnie Riperton sings Joni Mitchell’s “Woman of Heart and Mind” from the 1972 album “For the Roses”

Lesbian Concentrate, from Olivia Records is a wonderful compilation album. The cover has an orange juice can with the title, Lesbian Concentrate: A Lesbianthology of Songs and Poems 100% Undiluted. It was the women communities response to Anita Bryant Florida Orange Juice Growers Association spokesperson and leader of the Save Our Children Campaign. Special thanks go to Alex who helped me by transferring the music from vinyl to digital.

Marie is based on a true story

The Duras Sisters are a Phoenix based filk trio.

No women’s music show would be complete without chocolate or the Motherfolkers.




Deborah Holland’s “The Panic Is On: Songs From the Great Depression” grew out of a project Deborah completed for her masters thesis at Cal State-LA. In the 1980's she was co-founder of the pop trio Animal Logic with ex-Police drummer Stewart Copeland and virtuoso bassist Stanley Clarke.

Elizabeth Cook has, in the country vernacular, Balls. Nanci Griffith compared her to Loretta Lynn, and I got this album just so I could play this song on Womyn Making Waves.

“If You Were a Woman” Bonnie Tyler. Written by Desmond Tyler and produced by Jim Steinman

Gerri Gribi - The Womansong Collection: Found Gerri Gribi at http://creativefolk.com.

Resource Web Pages Created and Maintained by Gerri Gribi:
1) AfroAmericanHeritage.com: The African American History & Heritage Site *Recommended by NEA Today, School Library Journal, and Kathy Schrock
2) Resources for Women's Studies Programs & Women's Centers:
Internet resources and how to use them, the Women's Studies/Women's Center Mailing Lists, an annotated discography of nearly 200 songs and compilations related to domestic violence and sexual assault. I also have a page devoted to the Women's Suffrage Movement and Women's Equality Day (August 26) and a Women's/ Gender/ Diversity Calendar listing annual events.
3) For Folk Music Fans & Performers: both general-interest and women's music related.
Songbooks, a suffrage-singalong sheet, how to find lyrics to that long-lost camp song, women's radio programs, women's music festivals and more. Listen to The Womansong Collection on the air.
4) Appalachian Studies Resources

“If you love a Hippopotamus” by Heather Bishop isn’t classic women’s music, but I found it at http://www.ladyslipper.org (Ladyslipper Catalog –for women’s music) and I have always loved it. “Did Jesus Have a Baby Sister” (lyrics by Dory Previn) just seemed to fit.

Holly Near’s “Imagine My Surprise” is another one of the classic lesbian love songs. Near was probably the first woman artist to start an independent record company when in 1972 she founded Redwood Records which became a major force in alternative music for nearly 20 years. She is a force for social change.

Janis Ian’s “At Seventeen” spoke to me before I ever knew she was gay. “Society’s Child” was her first hit, a song about another (at the time) unacceptable kind of love.


The Equal Rights Amendment:
Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.

In the 110th Congress (2007 - 2008), the Equal Rights Amendment has been introduced as S.J. Res. 10 (Sen. Edward Kennedy, MA, lead sponsor) and H.J. Res. 40 (Rep. Carolyn Maloney, NY, lead sponsor). These bills impose no deadline on the ratification process in their proposing clauses.

Loretta Lynn might not look much like a feminist but she had more banned songs than any other artist in the history of country music, including "Rated X," about the double standards divorced women face, "Wings Upon Your Horns," about the loss of teenage virginity, and "The Pill," lyrics by T. D. Bayless, about a wife and mother becoming liberated via the birth control pill. Her song "Dear Uncle Sam," released in 1966, was an early protest of the Vietnam War, and was added to live sets during the current Iraq War.

Meg Christian is another one of the founding mothers of Olivia records. The first show I ever heard on WEFT was Womyn Making Waves and one of the first songs I heard was “Ode to a Gym Teacher” (my response…you can’t have music like that on the radio. Fortunately I was wrong.)

Melissa…Brave and Crazy…what more needs to be said.

I first heard Kristen Lems singing Peggy Seeger’s “I’m Gonna Be an Engineer” I saw Ms. Seeger sing it at the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival a long time ago. From Threescore and Ten (the album to celebrate Peggy’s 70th birthday.

Pat Parker
b. 1944 - 1989
If I could take all my parts with me when I go somewhere, and not have to say to one of them, "No, you stay home tonight, you won't be welcome," because I'm going to an all-white party where I can be gay, but not Black. Or I'm going to a Black poetry reading, and half the poets are antihomosexual, or thousands of situations where something of what I am cannot come with me. The day all the different parts of me can come along, we would have what I would call a revolution.

Tribe 8 was an all-women outspoken dyke punk band from San Francisco, California. Considered one of the first queercore groups.

I Am Woman by Helen Reddy Released: 1972 Australian Ray Burton co-wrote the song with Helen Reddy. Burton's contribution was writing the music to go with Helen Reddy's lyrics and editing her lyrics to fit his musical structure.

"I first wrote the song in August 1970," explained Burton. "It was first released by Capitol Records in late 1970 as an album track on Helen Reddy's first album. It was what they call a 'sleeper' in the music industry. In other words, it sat on the album doing nothing for 2 years and then as the women's liberation movement gathered momentum, Capitol Records released it as a single. The women's liberation movement then adopted it as their anthem and the rest is history."

Rory Block (born Aurora Block, November 6, 1949,[1] Princeton, New Jersey) is an American female blues guitarist and singer, a notable exponent of the country blues style

Sue Keller sings “Wild Women Don’t Sing the Blues” by Ida Cox.

“Sometimes It’s a Bitch”:
Jon Bon Jovi wrote this for Nicks and sang it with her. In the liner notes to her TimeSpace album, Nicks said: "When I first heard this song, I really did not quite understand what Jon was trying to say, but over the 2 weeks that we sang it together (at my mike), I started to realize that Jon, without knowing it, had sort of taken a time machine back 18 years and watched my life, the good parts and the bad. It was not a love song, which of course, I had expected it to be; it was much more than that to me. Bon Jovi had picked up on the fact, before meeting me, that there was no way he could know what I had lived through without having lived through it with me, so he dreamed. He dreamed about what the notorious Stevie Nicks had been like and what it had all done to her... the indulgences, the lifestyle. I felt that if he knew nothing else about me, he knew I had a strong instinct to survive. Someday, maybe all the people who did not go through this with us will understand; that considering the generation we come from, we are very lucky to be alive."

Seanan McGuire is a California filker who knows that goddesses are just like the rest of us.

From "Images of Women," by Robin Greenstein a look at women's lives thru traditional Anglo and Afro-American folk songs, as well as family and children's programs “Wish I was a Single Girl Again.”

Nanci Caroline Griffith, (born July 6, 1953 in Seguin, Texas) is an American singer, guitarist and songwriter from Austin, Texas. Her career has spanned a variety of musical genres, predominantly country, folk, and what she terms "folkabilly." Griffith won a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album in 1994 for her recording, Other Voices, Other Rooms. Griffith is a survivor of breast cancer which was diagnosed in 1996, and thyroid cancer in 1998.




02/19/2008
Nanci's dear friend Mary Margaret, inspiration for There's A Light Beyond These Woods (Mary Margaret), passed away last week., and her memorial services were held yesterday.

Jill Sobule: the YouTube Video for “I Kissed a Girl” can be found at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpI7znS8Fuc

Womyn Making Waves Playlist 3/2/2008

In celebration of Women's History Month

Womyn Making Waves 3/2/2008 Playlist

1. Song of the Soul Cris Williamson Live in Concert
2. If It Wasn't for the Women Alix Dobkin Love and Politics
3. Living With Lesbians Alix Dobkin Living with Lavender Jane
4. Woman of Heart and Mind Minnie Riperton Best of Minnie Riperton
5. Leaping Lesbians Sue Fink Lesbian Concentrate
6. Marie Cathy Winter Breath on My Fire
7. Rubenesque Duras Sisters Rubenesque
8. Chocolate Mother Folkers Live at the Arveida Center
9. I Am a Union Woman Deborah Holland Panic is on
10. Sometimes It Takes Balls to Be a Woman Elizabeth Cook Balls
11. If You Were a Woman Bonnie Tyler Super Hits
12. Prince Charming Doesn't Live Here Any More Gerri Gribi The Gerri Gribi Songbook
13. If you Love a Hippopotamus Heather Bishop Belly Button
14. Best Friend (The Unicorn Song) Margie Adam Best of
15. Did Jesus Have a Baby Sister Heather Bishop Old New Borrowed Blue
16. Imagine My Surprise Holly Near Imagine My Surprise
17. Society's Child Janis Ian Society's Child-the Verve Recordings
18. Ballad of the ERA Kristen Lems Equality Road
19. The Pill Loretta Lynn Respect
20. Ode to a Gym Teacher Meg Christian Best of Meg Christian
21. Brave and Crazy Melissa Etheridge Brave and Crazy
22. Gonna Be an Engineer Peggy Seeger Three Score and 10
23. For Straight Folks… Pat Parker Lesbian Concentrate
24. Sisters Rory Block Ain't I a Woman
25. Butch in the Streets Tribe 8 Fist City
26. I am Woman Helen Ready I Am Woman
27. Wild Women Don't Sing the Blues Sue Keller Wild Women
28. Sometimes It's a Bitch Stevie Nicks TimeSpace
29. Downhome Aphrodite Seanan McGuire Stars Fall Home
30. Wish I was a Single Girl Again Robin Greenstein Images of Women
31. Looking for the Time Nanci Griffith There's a Light Beyond These Woods
32. I Kissed a Girl Jill Soubule Jill Sobule

partial schedule for Women's History Month 2008

Please join WEFT in Celebrating Women’s History Month for the ninth year in a row! Tune in to 90.1 FM, or www.weft.org to hear over 50 hours of programming dedicated to women’s unique contributions to music, politics, and community!

SATURDAY 1
“A Pirate’s Life for Me” midnight-3am (punk)
“Mah Na Mah Na” 8-9a (children’s)
“The Illinois Labor Hour” 11a-noon (labor issues)
“From Bard to Verse” noon-1pm (spoken arts)
“Old-Time Country Music for New Old-Timers” 5-8pm (old-time country)
“modbit” 10p-midnight (contemporary classical)

SUNDAY 2
“WOMYN MAKING WAVES” 1-3p
“Celtic Music Go Bragh Go Bragh” 6-8p (Celtic)
“Decayed Lace” 10pm-midnight (goth)

MONDAY 3
“Lunch Bunch Blues” 11:30a-2p (blues)
“Francophiliacs” 2-4p (world music)
“Champaign-Urbana Radio Theatre” 7-8p (radio theatre)

TUESDAY 4
“Connie’s Hot Flashes on Movies” ~630am (movie review)
“Tuesday Verve” 9-11:30a (jazz)
“El Ritmo de Pachamama” 2-4p (world music)
“Sierra Club Radio” 530-6pm (environmental issues)
“From the Joshua Tree Inn” 6-8p (folk, country, bluegrass)

WEDNESDAY 5
“Connie’s Hot Flashes on Movies” ~730am (movie review)
“Blues Connection” 11:30a-2p (blues)

THURSDAY 6
“In Excelis Deo” midnight-2am (chant/spiritual)
“Speak Up!” 6-9am (music & commentary)
“Sounds Like Home” 9-11:30a (jazz)
“North, South, East, WEFT” 2-4p (world music)
“Another Country” 6-8p (alternative country)
“The Mental Vortex” 10-11p (industrial)

FRIDAY 7
“C-U in Hell!” midnight-2am (metal)
“Senor Blues” 2-4p (world music)
“Blues Live” 8-10p (live blues)

And stay tuned all month for other special shows!
MARCH 9, 10-11am: “Liberacion!: Latina Women in the Academy”

and of course,
“Womyn Making Waves” each and every Sunday 1-3pm!

Women's History Month

Stay tuned on Sunday, March 2 for my "Womyn's Music" show. WMW always plays "Womyn's music and music by Women," however on the first Sunday in March I will be playing a whole bunch of old favorite lesbian standards and some other music as well. You can listen to WEFT online at weft.org. Womyn Making Waves runs from 1-3pm. Meg, Cris, Holly...all the old gang will be there, and I am looking for people to share stories about WMW from the old days, since WMW has been on WEFT from the very beginning.

Bits of info about the music WMW 2/24/08

WMW Black History Month 2/24/2008

NEWS: Civil rights icon Johnnie Carr, 97, dies By DESIREE HUNTER, Associated Press writer Sat Feb 23, 5:34 PM ET MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Johnnie Carr, who joined childhood friend Rosa Parks in the historic Montgomery bus boycott and kept a busy schedule of civil rights activism up to her final days, has died. She was 97.

Carr died Friday night, said Baptist Health hospital spokeswoman Melody Ragland. She had been hospitalized after a stroke Feb. 11.

Carr succeeded the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as president of the Montgomery Improvement Association in 1967, a post she held at her death. It was the newly formed association that led the boycott of city buses in the Alabama capital in 1955 after Parks, a black seamstress, was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to whites on a crowded bus.

A year later the U.S. Supreme Court struck down racial segregation on public transportation.

"Johnnie Carr is one of the three major icons of the Civil Rights Movement: Dr. King, Rosa Parks and Johnnie Carr," said Morris Dees, co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center. "I think ultimately, when the final history books are written, she'll be one of the few people remembered for that terrific movement."

About the Music

Nicole Mitchell has been noted as “a compelling improviser of wit, determination, positivity, and tremendous talent...on her way to becoming one of the greatest living flutists in jazz,” (Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader). A creative flutist, composer and bandleader, Mitchell placed first as Downbeat magazine’s "Rising Star Flutist 2005-2007, "and was awarded ““Chicagoan of the Year 2006” by the Chicago Tribune. The founder of the critically acclaimed Black Earth Ensemble and Black Earth Strings, Mitchell’s compositions reach across sound worlds, integrating new ideas with moments in the legacy of jazz, gospel, pop, and African percussion to create a fascinating synthesis of “postmodern jazz.”

Eunice Kathleen Waymon, better known by her stage name Nina Simone (February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003), was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger and civil rightsactivist.Although she disliked being categorized, Simone is generally classified as a jazz musician. She preferred the term "Black Classical Music" herself. Simone originally aspired to become a classical pianist, but her work covers an eclectic variety of musical styles besides her classicalsoul, folk, R&B, gospel, and pop music. "Mississippi Goddam is her response to the murder of Medgar Evers and the bombing of a church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four black children. On the recording she cynically announces the song as "a show tune, but the show hasn't been written for it yet."

"Before I'd be a Slave" was written by Undine Smith Moore in 1953 and is performed by Maria Corley on her CD Soulscapes: Piano Music by African American Women.
Maria Corley is a composer, performer and arranger of music.


Rory Block is the only white performer I am playing on this show. I was unable to find a black woman singer performing Ain't I a Woman, which is the famous speech by Sojourner Truth, delievered at theWomen's Convention in 1851 in Akron, Ohio.

"Troubled Water" was composed by Margaret Bonds in 1967 and is performed by Maria Corley from the Soulscapes cd

Deidre McCalla With four critically acclaimed albums to her credit and a new release this year, Deidre McCalla remains the indefatigable road warrior. An African American lesbian feminist, Deidre's words and music poignantly traverse the inner and outer landscapes of our lives, chronicling our strengths and weaknesses and celebrating the power and diversity of the human spirit.

Fannie Lou Hamer (born Fannie Lou Townsend on October 6, 1917 – March 14, 1977) was an American voting rights activist and civil rights leader. She was instrumental in organizing Mississippi's "Freedom Summer" for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and later became the Vice-Chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, attending the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in that capacity. Her plain-spoken manner and fervent belief in the Biblical righteousness of her cause gained her a reputation as an electrifying speaker and constant champion of civil rights.

Sweet Honey in the Rock was founded in 1973 by Bernice Johnson Reagon who formed the group out of singers from a vocal workshop she was teaching with the Washington, D.C. Black Repertory Company. Reagon retired from the group in 2004. The name of the group comes from a religious parable from Psalm 81:16 which tells of a land so rich that when rocks were cracked open, honey flowed from them. ^[1] Over the years, more than 20 individuals have lent their voices to Sweet Honey in the Rock. Beginning as a quartet, the group is now composed of six African-American women (including a professional American Sign Language interpreter who accompanies the group on concert tours).

Roxanne Shante Biography
Real Name: Lolita Shante Gooden / Born: November 9 1969, Queens NY USA. Shante came to prominence at the tender age of 14 via her related answer record to U.T.F.O.'s 1984 rap hit, ' Roxanne, Roxanne'. Gooden was walking outside a New York housing project when she overheard three men discussing U.T.F.O.'s cancellation of a show they were promoting. In turn gooden offered them a reply record. The onlookers, DJ Mister Magic, Tyrone Williams and Marley Marl took her up on the offer. Her version 'Roxanne's Revenge' mixed sassy, indignant raps with a funky backbeat. It was a massive hit, which sold over a quarter of a million copies in the New York area alone, and spawned a flood of answerback records (well over a hundred at the final count), as rappers queued to take up the challenge. U.T.F.O. replied by sueing her for using their b-side as the rhythm track.

playlist 2/24/2008 Black History Month

Track Artist Album Label Genre

1. I Will Survive Gloria Gaynor Best of Gloria Gaynor
   
2. Cause and Effect Nicole Mitchell Black Unstoppable
   
3. To Be Young, Gifted and Black Nina Simone Respect
   
4. Mississippi Goddam Nina Simone Best of Nina Simone
   
5. Respect Aretha Franklin 30 Greatest Hits
   
6. Wild Women Don't Have the Blues Ida Cox & Coleman Hawkins Blues for Rampart Street
   
7. God Bless the Child Billie Holiday Lady Day: Master Takes and Singles (4 disc)
   
8. Ain't No Mountain High Enough Diana Ross The No. 1's
   
9. Before I'd Be a Slave Maria Corley Soulscapes: Piano Music by African American Women
   
10. Ain't I a Woman Rory Block Ain't I a Woman
    
11. The Lady is a Tramp Ella Fitzgerald Mack the Knife: Ella in Berlin
    
12. Piece of My Heart Etta James Deep in the Night
    
13. Troubled Water Maria Corley Soulscapes: Piano Music by African American Women
    
14. Mama's Little Baby Girl Deidre McCalla With a Little Luck
    
15. I'm Lucky Joan Armatrading Square the Circle
    
16. Fanny Lou Hamer Go Tell It On the Mountain Voices of the Civil Rights Movement
    
17. I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl Queen Latifah Trav'lin' Light
    
18. Adventures in Paradise Minnie Riperton Best of Minnie Riperton
    
19. Paper and Ink Tracy Chapman Telling Stories
    
20. Ballad of the Sit Ins Sweet Honey in the Rock The Women Gather
    
21. Roxannes Revenge Roxanne Shante Respect
    
22. Dancing in the Streets Martha and the Vandellas 20th Century Masters
    
23. HonkeyTonk Women Tina Turner Tina Turner:The Collection
    

Community Radio In My World

I love WEFT most of the time. Sometimes it's hard. There are elections coming up in March (the Associates meeting is on my birthday mandatory and it's pretty mandatory, since I am running for reelection to the Associates Executive Committee). Recently a mailing list, which I thought was called weft-a because it was for weft-associates but according to another member actually stands for weft-announcements, got shut down.

Here is my response:

I think the problem with weft-a is bad karma. Personally, I don't want to read anything that is going to spoil my mood for the rest of the day. However, the WEFT associates (people who have paid their dues, come to associates meetings and are active at the station) need to have a forum to discuss the things that don't get discussed in the 8 hours per year that make up the meeting time for the associates as a body. That was the charge of weft-a. The implementation was flawed and therefore the discussion group got hijacked in a most offensive manner. If weft-a can't come back and be what it is meant to be which is a forum for discussion of weft and the things that members of weft are concerned about WITH REGARD TO WEFT, then we need another venue.

The Associates Executive Committee (the officers of the Associates committee...btw, the Associates are a committee) is going to facilitate a study group devoted to weft-a. The board are not, if I remember correctly, associates. If associates don't care whether there is a discussion group or not, they will let us know and (because communication is important) will make sure that the wishes of the associates are carried out.

BTW, I am running for the AEC. I was elected by a slim (1 vote) margin at the last associates meeting to fill in a vacant spot. I have since attended 2(3?) AEC meetings and assorted other meetings (Music and Programming committee) to find out what's going on and to be able to better serve the associates. My goal as part of the AEC will continue to work for the benefit of the associates, the airshifters, the other weft committees, and the station.

Don't forget, the associates meeting is March 6 at the Illinois Terminal Building.

Black AND Women's History - Bessie Coleman Woman Aviator

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/kareem/2008/02/bessie-coleman.html

Bessie Coleman (pictured), 1892-1926 — also known as “Queen Bess” — was the first African American woman airline pilot, as well as the first American woman to receive an international pilot’s license.

I found this information in Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's blog of all places.

Homelessness Marathon Schedule

The 11th Annual Homelessness Marathon broadcast starts at 6 p.m., CST, on
Wednesday, Feb. 20th and ends at 8 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 21st.

Host Jeremy Alderson is based in Nashville, TN this year.

Below is an updated schedule of the short (5-minute) prerecorded
segments and longer (53 minute) live segments.

For more information, you can go to http://www.homelessnessmarathon.org
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Hour 1 - SHORT: Welcome from "Nobody" (live)
(7pm) LONG: A panel of homeless Nashvillians.

Hour 2 - SHORT: Performing A One Night Count
(8pm) LONG: Homelessness in Music City - Part 1 - The Civic View.
Co-hosts: George Gruhn, CEO of Gruhn Guitars and Howard
Gentry, Chairman, Mayor's Homelessness Commission.

Hour 3 - SHORT: Housing First
(9pm) LONG: Homelessness in Music City - Part 2 - The Street
View. Co-Hosts: Father Charlie Strobel, founding director,
Campus for Human Development, and Patricia Bryant, a
currently homeless Nashvillian.

Hour 4 - SHORT: Poetry by Homeless Teens
(10pm) LONG: National Hour I - A survey of homelessness in three cities
in the east and midwest.

Hour 5 - SHORT: Homeless Vets
(11pm) LONG: Homelessness, Crime and Criminalization. Co-Hosts:
Matt Leber, organizer, Nashville Homeless Power Project
and Tulin Ozdeger, civil rights director, National Law
Center on Homelessness and Poverty.

Hour 6 - SHORT: Street Poetry
(mid) LONG: "The War and The Poor - Co-Hosts: Norman Solomon,
author of "War Made Easy" and Frances Fox Piven, author
of "The War At Home: The Domestic Cost of Bush's
Militarism."

Hour 7 - SHORT: Addressing Rural Homelessness
(1am) LONG: The Fight in Fresno - A live remote from Fresno, CA.

Hour 8 - SHORT: A Homeless Job Program
(2am) LONG: The Working Poor. Co-Hosts: William Miles, Nashville
Jobs with Justice, Cornell Professor of Sociology
Thomas Hirschl.

Hour 9 - SHORT: Registering Homeless Voters
(3am) LONG: National Hour II: A survey of homelessness in three cities
on the West Coast, including Los Angeles.

Hour 10 - SHORT: Generational Homelessness
(4am) LONG: International Hour. Co-host to be Peter Fredriksson,
senior adviser to the Housing Ministry of Finland.

Hour 11 - SHORT: Homeless School Kids
(5am) LONG: Fighting Back - Co-Hosts to be Cheri Honkala, director
of the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign,
Paul Boden, director of the Western Regional Advocacy
Project and Clemmie Greenlee, this year's "Nashvillian
of the Year!"

Hour 12 - SHORT: Street Poetry
(6am) LONG: Health Care and Homelessness. Co-hosts, John Lozier,
Director National Health Care for the Homeless, and
co-host TBA.

Hour 13 - SHORT: TBA
(7am) LONG: Will the Foreclosure Crisis Drive People to the
Streets? Co-hosts Danilo Pelletiere, research director,
National Low Income Housing Coalition and a co-host TBA.

Hour 14 - SHORT: TBA
(8am) LONG: First: Where Is The Housing? Co-Host, Jeremy Rosen,
executive director, National Policy and Advocacy
Council on Homelessness. Next: TBA

Reggae Month

http://www.jis.gov.jm/officePM/html/20080109T100000-

Jamaica has announce that February is Reggae month. The Prime Minister of Jamaica, Bruce Golding, said:

Reggae Month will be used to consolidate a series of events into a passionate movement in order to give full recognition to the music as a cultural capital. The month of celebrations will also assert Jamaica's authority on the music so there can be no ambiguity of its origin. ... the month will also be used to plant the seeds for a nation branding project to firmly establish Brand Jamaica. This year's activities will also be used as a stepping stone for next year's celebration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of reggae music.

Some top names of Women in Reggae that you can hear on a regular basis on WEFT:

About Us Women of Reggae Upcoming Events Volunteer In The News Sponsors Links Contact Info

ALTHEA & DONNA AMBELIQUE CECILE CYNTHIA SCHLOSS DAWN PENN DAZARIE DELLA GRANT DIANA KING FIONA FOXY BROWN FOXY BROWN IVY QUEEN JANET KAY JC LODGE JUDY MOWATT KAREN WHEELER KINGSTON LADIES LADY G LADY SAW LUNA ANGEL MACKA DIAMOND MARCIA ATKINS MARCIA GRIFFITHS MARIJAH MARVIA PROVIDENCE MINX MS DYNAMITE NADINE SUTHERLAND NELLY FURTADO NiiQQii Li NINA SKY PAM HALL PATRA PHIYLLIS DILLON RITA MARLEY SANDRA CROSS SASHA SENYA MS. THING SHELLY THUNDER SISTER CAROL SISTER NANCY SISTER NYANDA SOPHIA GEORGE TANYA STEPHENS WORLD A GIRL

Thanks to Jamaica Information Service, Reggae Woman, and Women of Reggae for information.

The Cocoa Lounge

In honor of Black History Month here is a link to the Cocoa Lounge, which is self described as:

A tribute to Beautiful Black Women in Arts & Entertainment. Cocoalounge.com first hit the web in 2000 becoming one of the first sites to provide news and information about black women of note. We are changing to a blog format to continue servicing our audience on a more frequent basis.

Among other services it provides information about new music from black women artists. Check it out.

playlist 1/20/2008 barbara

1. Mended Corners Talis Kimberly Archetype Café Marchwood Media
2. Bound Suzanne Vega Beauty and Crime Blue note
3. Unbound Suzanne Vega Beauty and Crime Blue note
4. I Know Where I've Been Queen Latifah Trav'lin' Light Verve new
5. Honey in the Rock Mother Folkers Confluence
6. Invisible Girl Minnie Driver Everything I've got in my pocket Zoe
7. Fire in the Morning Melissa Manchester The Essence of Melissa Manchester Arista
8. Sisters Dancing Together Leslie Fish Skybound Random Factors
9. Walking on the Water Julia Fordham That's Life Vanguard
10. Night of the Iguana Joni Mitchell Shine Hear Music new
11. You Turn Me on-I'm a Radio Joni Mitchell Hits Reprise
12. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue Joan Baez Bowery Songs Koch Records
13. Willow Joan Armatrading Boys on the Side Soundtrack Arista
14. It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference Alison Krauss Forget About It Rounder
15. If It Wasn't for the Women Alix Dobkin Love and Politics Women's Wax Works
16. Beautiful/Ugly Amy Correia Lakeville Nettwerks Records
17. The Woman in Me Angel Travis The Woman in Me Tao & Zen
18. Origami Ani Difranco Educated Guess Righteous Babe Records
19. As Is Amy Rigby Middlescence Koch Records
20. The Weight Aretha Franklin This Girl's In Love With You Atlantic
21. Summertime Billie Holiday Lady Day: Master Takes and Singles (4 disc) Columbia new
22. The Way to There Au Revoir Simone The Bird of Music Our Secret Records new
23. Family Dar Williams Mortal City Razor & Tie
24. Stairway to the Stars Ella Fitzgerald Forever Gold: Verve
25. Sometimes It Takes Balls to be a Woman Elizabeth Cook Balls 31 Tigers
26. Early Morning Rain Eva Cassidy Cassidy: Imagine Blix Street
27. Laurie Anderson It Tango Respect: Rhino
28. Ain't No Mountain High Enough Meg Christian/Cris Williamson Meg and Cris at Carnegie Hall Olivia
29. Heroes and Friends Melissa Etheridge The Awakening Island

barbara's playlist 1/20/2008

Womyn Making Waves 1/20/2008 barbara

1. Mended Corners Talis Kimberly Archetype Café
2. Bound Suzanne Vega Beauty and Crime
3. Unbound Suzanne Vega Beauty and Crime
4. I Know Where I've Been Queen Latifah Trav'lin' Light
5. Honey in the Rock Mother Folkers Confluence
6. Invisible Girl Minnie Driver Everything I've got in my pocket
7. Fire in the Morning Melissa Manchester The Essence of Melissa Manchester
8. Sisters Dancing Together Leslie Fish Skybound
9. Walking on the Water Julia Fordham That's Life
10. Night of the Iguana Joni Mitchell Shine
11. You Turn Me on-I'm a Radio Joni Mitchell Hits
12. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue Joan Baez Bowery Songs
13. Willow Joan Armatrading Boys on the Side Soundtrack
14. It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference Alison Krauss Forget About It
15. If It Wasn't for the Women Alix Dobkin Love and Politics
16. Beautiful/Ugly Amy Correia Lakeville
17. The Woman in Me Angel Travis The Woman in Me
18. Origami Ani Difranco Educated Guess
19. As Is Amy Rigby Middlescence
20. The Weight Aretha Franklin This Girl's In Love With You
21. Summertime Billie Holiday Lady Day: Master Takes and Singles (4 disc)
22. The Way to There Au Revoir Simone The Bird of Music
23. Family Dar Williams Mortal City
24. Stairway to the Stars Ella Fitzgerald Forever Gold:
25. Sometimes It Takes Balls to be a Woman Elizabeth Cook Balls
26. Early Morning Rain Eva Cassidy Cassidy: Imagine
27. It Tango Laurie Anderson Respect:
28. Ain't No Mountain High Enough Meg Christian/Cris Williamson Meg and Cris at Carnegie Hall
29. Heroes and Friends Melissa Etheridge The Awakening

we're everywhere

from the latest WEFT Board list:

**Pumping the wattage into your cottage!
While WEFT's signal is not as strong as powerhouses WILL-FM (105kw), WLRW
(50kw), and WHMS (50kw); at 10kw, WEFT has a stronger signal than WPGU
(3kw), WCZQ--Hot 105.5 (3kw), WGKC (2.5kw) and WQQB--B96 (3.8kw). And
we're almost as strong as one of CU's big stations, WIXY (13kw). Think
about that next time you're on-air.


This is a very cool fact that I hadn't really thought about!!!!

February Special Programming

WEFT is once again participating in the 11th annual Homeless Marathon.

WHAT IS THE HOMELESSNESS MARATHON?
It is a 14 hour radio broadcast featuring the voices and stories of homeless people from around the U.S. The Homelessness Marathon features live call-ins all night long via a national toll-free number. The Homelessness Marathon is available for free to all non-commercial stations.

WHERE DOES IT HAPPEN?
Everywhere.

WHEN?
The broadcast on WEFT will start at 6PM on Wednesday, February 20, 2008. It will end at 8AM on Thursday, February 21, 2008. The Homelessness Marathon will preempt regular programming on WEFT at this time. For more information check

http://www.homelessnessmarathon.org/

http://weft.org

PLEDGE DRIVE SIGNUP

**Mark Your Calendars! Pledge Drive!
Saturday, Feb. 16 through Friday, Feb. 29. That's right--our drive ends on
Leap Day. Know someone with a Leap Day birthday? (I do.) Get them on the
air to help pitch! Kristy Rice will be doing a lot of the volunteer
wrangling. Contact her at krice_unix@yahoo.com and sign up for co-host and
phone slots.

TLC - PSA

The Booby Wall--http://www.boobywall.ca

The Booby Wall is a place for women to celebrate, commemorate, participate and show their breasts some TLC. The booby wall is a virtual, interactive exhibit of breasts put together by Schick Quattro for Women and women in Canada. Why? Because breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in women ages 15-40 and because nearly one quarter of all breast cancer occurs in women under the age of 50.

The Booby wall was developed in support of Rethink Breast Cancer Early Detection Initiative to and the TLC (Touch, Look, Check) program. The website has information on TLC breast self exam and it has pictures of hundreds of breasts of women who are showing that they support breast health.

Check out the Booby Wall at http://www.boobywall.ca and remember to Touch, Look and Check for yourself.

Happy New Year

2008 is already in high gear and Raeann is doing the first show of 2008. I'm sure it will be a great show, so tune in to 90.1fm or listen online at weft.org.

So it's Saturday night and I decided to work on blurbs for WHM9. WEFT's 9th annual celebration of Women's History Month in March is coming up way too fast and my personal goal is to get every single show on WEFT to highlight a woman or women in music, specifically during the week of March 1-7, 2008. (This is Jason greenly's baby and I think he's wonderful for putting so much effort into special programming for WEFT). I am also avoiding cleaning my kitchen, but y'all don't need to know that.

Anyway, I've been crawling the net, looking for women's music blogs (there are many) and women's music radio (Ladyslipper has a 24/7 women's music station on Live365). I found places where I could get CD's of old albums like Meg Christian's "Face the Music" and "I Know You Know." It is totally inspiring to find this community.

Stay tuned!