[NewMusic] Mills article

[Matt Davignon]

Well, yes and no. I'd say at the moment slightly more than half the
musicians I encounter frequently in this scene are women, but most of
the women are either current Mills students or recent graduates.

On 10/3/07, weasel walter <weaselw at juno.com> wrote:
> fred frith says in this article: "The local scene, especially the local
> improvising scene, is still heavily male-dominated . . ."
>
> ESPECIALLY the improvised music scene? ugh. i beg to differ. if i'm going
> to be pressed for evidence, i will proffer statistics, but i find having
> to prove that point to be a waste of my time because it's so obvious.
> there have been women musicians on pretty much every free music gig i can
> remember playing here. if you want to see what a truly male-dominated
> improvised music scene looks like, check out chicago some time.
>
> with all respect, methinks mr. frith does not make any particular scene
> very often around here so he really wouldn't know. the only performances
> i've seen him at in the last four years have been his own!
>
> ww
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