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Bay Area Women in Creative Music
Email: paulineo[no.spam*]mills.edu
Website: http://music.mills.edu/bawcm/
Description: This new website features a list in progress of Bay Area Women in Creative Music; interviews with women composers, songwriters, improvisers, and sound artists and links to additional sites both local and international. Created to document the vital contribution of women to music in the Bay Area and their increased visibility; this site offers a permanent resource and networks for performers, composers, educators, researchers, and any other interested visitors.

FemaleMusician.com
P.O. Box 623
Northport, NY 11768
USA
Contact: Tj Orlando
Email: tj[no.spam*]femalemusician.com
Website: http://www.femalemusician.com
Description: An educational electronic music magazine, audio production facility and on line community for women of all ages who seek to pursue a career in music.

Goldenrod Music
1310 Tuner Street
Lansing MI, 48906
USA
Telephone: 517-484-1712
Fax: 517-484-1771
Email: music[no.spam*]goldenrod.com
Website: http://www.goldenrod.com/index.asp
Description: Women owned and operated music company for over 28 years. Online catalogue, tour dates and more. Dedicated to supporting and celebrating female musicians.

Harmony Ridge Music
Telephone: 650-563-9280
Toll Free: 800-611-4698
Fax: 650-563-9266
Email: hrmusic[no.spam*]hrmusic.com
Website: http://www.hrmusic.com
Description: A website dedicated to female singer/song writers. Includes over 300 artists in its alphabetical listings.

Houston Women's Festival
P.O. Box 70102
Houston, TX 77270
USA
Telephone: 713-861-4160
Email: feedback[no.spam*]hwfestival.org
Website: http://www.hwfestival.org
Description: One-day celebration of music, art, and culture in the Houston area.

IAWM: International Alliance for Women in Music
Department of Music
422 S. 11th Street, Room 209
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Indiana, PA 15705-1070
USA
Telephone: 724-357-7918
Fax: 724-357-9570
Email: IAWM-info[no.spam*]grove.iup.edu
Website: http://www.iawm.org
Description: The IAWM Web Site is a resource on women composers and women in music topics. This community archive is developed and maintained by members of the IAWM and contains more than 4500 pages of archival resources.

IMA: Institute for the Musical Arts
P.O. Box 867
Goshen, MA 01032
USA
Telephone: 413-268-3074
Email: imaeast@aol.com
or
P.O. Box 253
Bodega, CA 94922
USA
Telephone: 707-738-1373
Email: imabodega[no.spam*]aol.com
Website: http://www.ima.org
Description: The IMA is a non-profit teaching, performing, and recording facility dedicated to supporting women in music and its related business.

Indiegrrl
Website: http://www.indiegrrl.com
Description: Indiegrrl was founded by Holly Figueroa in May of 1998 as a forum for information, networking, and conversation about independent music from a female perspective. Currently Indiegrrl has over 1300 members internationally, making Indiegrrl the largest organization of its kind in the world. The Indiegrrl list welcomes women performers, DJs, managers, and booking agents, as well as men interested in women's role in the independent music industry.

Iowa Women's Music Festival
P.O. Box 3411
Iowa City, IA 52244
USA
Telephone: 319-273-3117
Fax: 319-353-2284
Email: iwmfest[no.spam*]prairievoices.net
Website: http://www.prairievoices.net
Description: One-day festival featuring music for women.

Ladyslipper
PO Box 3124-R
Durham, NC 27715
USA
Telephone: 919-383-8773, 800-634-6044
Fax: 919-383-3525
Email: info[no.spam*]ladyslipper.org
Website: http://www.ladyslipper.org
Description: Ladyslipper is a nonprofit organization whose primary purpose is to heighten public awareness of the achievements of women artists and musicians, and to expand the scope and availability of recordings by women. Ladyslipper publishes the world's most comprehensive catalog and resource guide of music by women.

Libana, Inc.
PO Box 400530
Cambridge, MA 02140
USA
Telephone: 800-997-7757
Email: libaninc[no.spam*]aol.com
Website: http://www.libana.com
Description: Women's traditional and contemporary music and dance from around the globe.

Los Angeles Women in Music
P.O. Box 1817
Burbank, CA 91507
USA
Telephone: 213-243-6440
Fax: 213-244-1260
Email: lawim[no.spam*]lawim.org
Website: http://www.lawim.com
Description: Promotes professional achievement and advancement for women in the music industry.

Michigan Womyn's Music Festival
P.O. Box 22
Walhalla, MI 49458
USA
Telephone: 231-757-4766
Website: http://www.michfest.com
Description: Holding strong for 28 years, the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival is both an icon of mid-70's radical feminism and a contemporary stomping ground where many different subcultures that thrive in and define our community come together. For one week this space in time provides fertile ground for the controversies, transformations and the many amazing personal and community revelations that thousands of womyn experience each August.

National Women's Music Festival
P.O. Box 1427
Indianapolis, IN 46206-1427
USA
Telephone: 317-713-1144
Fax: 317-923-4995
Email: wia[no.spam*]wiaonline.org
Website: http://www.wiaonline.org
Description: Four-day women's music festival held the weekend after Memorial Day.

New York Women Composers
34-40 79th Street, #5E
Jackson Heights, NY 11372
USA
President: Marilyn Bliss
Telephone: 718-565-0469
Email: nywomencomposers[no.spam*]hotmail.com
Website: http://www.ibiblio.org/nywc
Description: Group of women composers that perform classical concert music.

Pleiades Records
PO Box 7217
Berkeley, CA 94707
USA
Telephone: 510-528-8193
Fax: 510-528-9859
Email: info[no.spam*]margieadam.com
Website: http://www.margieadam.com
Description: Women-owned and operated recording company that produces and distributes vocal and piano instrumental music.

Vox Femina
3341 Caroline Avenue
Culver City, CA 90232
USA
Telephone: 310-391-2402
Email: vfla[no.spam*]voxfemininala.org
Website: http://www.voxfeminala.org
Description: Los Angeles chorus women dedicated to performance of quality choral literature with an emphasis on music by women composers.

The Wam! Festival celebrating women and music
P.O. Box 737
Easthampton, MA 01027
USA
Telephone: 413-530-1556
Email: wamfest[no.spam*]noho.com
Description: Live music by women artisans.

Wiminfest
P.O. Box 80204
Albuquerque, NM 87198-0204
USA
Telephone: 800-499-5688/ 505-899-3627
Email: list[no.spam*]nmwimin.org
Website: http://www.nmwimin.org
Description: Women's festival over Labor Day weekend.

Women in the Arts, Inc.
P.O. Box 1427
Indianapolis, Indiana 46206
USA
Telephone: 317-713-1144
Email: wia[no.spam*]wiaonline.org
Website: http://www.wiaonline.org
Description: The purpose of Women In the Arts, Inc. (WIA) is to produce and sponsor programs that promote and affirm the creative talents and technical skills of women in the visual, performing, and fine arts. The primary vehicle to meet this purpose is the production of the National Women's Music Festival. In producing this and other arts programs, WIA strives to facilitate the growth, knowledge, and empowerment of women in the other varied aspects of their lives.

Women in Music National Network
Women in Music - National Network
1450 Oddstad Drive
Redwood City, CA 94063
USA
Telephone: 866-305-7963
Website: http://www.womeninmusic.com
Email: info[no.spam*]womeninmusic.com
Description: Provide resources, opportunities, and information for women in, or simply those interested in, the music industry.

Women's Rising Music
PO Box 115
Portales, NM
USA
Telephone: 505-714-1473
Email: cherylb[no.spam*]ziamediagroup.com
Contact: Cheryl Bruedigam, Publisher
Website: http://www.womensrising.com/
Description: Women's Web site featuring music, the arts, online magazine, music members' area.

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