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Tracy Chapman

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Tracy Chapman is an American singer-songwriter, widely known for her hit singles "Fast Car" (1988) and "Give Me One Reason" (1995). She was signed to Elektra Records by Bob Krasnow in 1987. The following year she released her debut album, Tracy Chapman, which became a commercial success. The album received six Grammy Award nominations, including one for Album of the Year, three of which she won: Best New Artist, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for her single "Fast Car", and Best Contemporary Folk Album. Chapman has since continued to release award-winning music. Chapman is politically and socially active. In a 2009 interview with National Public Radio, she said, "I'm approached by lots of organizations and lots of people who want me to support their various charitable efforts in some way. And I look at those requests and I basically try to do what I can. And I have certain interests of my own, generally an interest in human rights." This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Dorothy DeLay

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Dorothy DeLay was an American violin instructor, primarily at the Juilliard School, Sarah Lawrence College, and the University of Cincinnati. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Doriot Anthony Dwyer

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Girls in the Nose

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Girls in the Nose started in Austin, Texas in 1985. In 1981 I [Kay Turner] met a young performer named Gretchen Phillips and she and I started hanging out and listening to records together and we were just music nerds and she played guitar and then my friend Betsy Peterson, a folklorist who moved to Austin, joined.

Ann Hobson Pilot

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Ann Hobson Pilot is an American musician and the former principal harpist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Pops. She has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony, and as a soloist with many orchestras in the United States. She was one of four African American musicians who were the first to play in United States symphony orchestras during the 1960s. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Meredith Monk

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Sharee Nash

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Sharee Nash is a writer, deejay, and co-founder of iconic parties for queer women and lesbians including Sundays at Café Tabac and Mondays at Bar d’O in the 1990s and early 2000s with fellow nightlife icon Wanda Acosta. Sharee’s extensive knowledge of and passion for music has led her around the globe in search of sounds unheard of in New York City. Her work in nightlife with Wanda ushered in a massive shift in lesbian culture out from the hidden, mafia-owned dive bars into visible and glamorous spaces. Parties such as Sundays at Café Tabac enabled queer women to see one another and to see themselves with respect and adoration.

Helen Reddy

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Malvina Reynolds

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Buffy Sainte-Marie

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Denise Scott Brown

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Denise Scott Brown is an American architect, planner, writer, educator, and principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates in Philadelphia. Scott Brown and her husband and partner, Robert Venturi, are regarded as among the most influential architects of the twentieth century, both through their architecture and planning, and theoretical writing and teaching. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Sisterfire

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Sisterfire was a women's music festival that celebrated women and lesbian musicians, started by Amy Horowtiz in 1982. The festival was designed to be accessible to a wide-range of guests, including wheelchair ramps, sign-lanuage interpreters, and free childcare. The festival ended in the early 1990s due to internal conflict. 

The Oral Traditions

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The Oral Traditions, Kay Turner's band, started in 1972 after Turner graduated from Douglas College. In Turner's words, The Oral Tradition was, "super wack, feminist performance. It was all about lesbian eroticism that was really not available in those other songs that were much more about partnering! They were about having a girlfriend and they were romantic but we were not of that ilk."