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Ladyfest
Hello,
ladies!!! Ladyfest started twirling its skirt on Tuesday
and will continue to spin until Sunday across Washington's
capital city of Olympia. Wednesday-Sunday, Aug. 2-6.
Check the schedule at www.ladyfest.org. Passes are $30-$55;
or you can pay at the door for individual shows.
Michigan
Womyn's Music Festival
Check
the schedule at www.michfest.com.
Tuesday-Sunday,
Aug. 8-13. Walhalla, Mich. $65-$380
Feed
QW: Send savory bits of information to Byron
Beck at bbeck@
wweek.com at least 10 days prior to publication.
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Sports fans, rev your engines. It's time for lesbo mania.
What else do you call a fortnight of Sappho-centric entertainment
that attracts dykes like a bowl of cream calls to pussy?
A terrific twosome--Ladyfest and the Michigan Womyn's Music
Festival--are sure to be ass-kicking affairs that ignite
many a dyke drama.
But, according to our lesbian intern Jenny, the two events
could not be more different.
Like the gay male family feud that pits the "friends of
Dorothy" against the "friends of Madonna," these events
represent a growing split between young and old dykes.
For example, the first-ever Ladyfest, in full swing just
a few miles up the Interstate 5 corridor, attracts a loud,
proud, Sleater-Kinney-loving crowd. Held in Olympia, this
g-spot is where riot grrrls mosh with genderfucked headbangers
to the lo-fi sounds of musical pioneers such as Bratmobile
and the queercore Butchies.
But hey, aren't the Butchies also playing the 25-year-old
Womyn's fest located in the woods of Walhalla, Mich.? You
betcha, sista! But so are the holy trinity of the Indigo
Girls, Holly Near and Ferron. While the Butchies certainly
represent a nod to the burgeoning junior-dyke set, Kaia
and crew are also just a blip on the collective screen of
this rule-heavy homo campout full of Birkenstocks and crying
babies.
As different as these soror soirees are, they do
have a few things in common.
Both will have a full roster of workshops. Ladyfest will
have experts show how to repair a bike and start your own
pirate radio station, while the Womyn's fest keeps it low-key
by helping women "find their song."
And both will teach good old-fashioned drumming and strumming,
long the bastion of geezing old men (Quick! How many woman
rock stars play guitar or drums?). These crucial-to-the-scene
courses encourage women to go the D.I.Y. route. And not
only does it help to recruit new players to their musical
ranks, it also allows women to discover that while their
tastes may differ, they still can swing their axe--two-headed
or otherwise--for the same team.
And, ladies, isn't that what sisterhood is all about?
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