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Posted: August 10 2012 at 22:35
ClemofNazareth wrote:
Larkin Grimm - a weird chick who grew up in a hippie commune, dropped out of Yale to live in a tent in the woods with a native American shaman (among other things). Writes all her own music and plays guitar, banjo, harp, dulcimer, keyboards and various percussive instruments.
Haha, nice. I saw her at a little music festival once. Never heard about her before then, but she was awesome. I was really impressed by how she could do complex guitar parts and complex vocal parts at the same time.
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Posted: August 09 2012 at 13:48
Ruth Underwood played with Zappa as well with many others. She plays percussion and also some fantastic and very complex vibraphone, for which she is not credited here in PA.
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Posted: August 09 2012 at 09:09
There aren't as many women as men of course, but they are out there if you look and many are great musicians who often bring more passion and feeling to their music than most men can muster.
Some of my admittedly obscure prog folk favorites:
Paran Amirinazari (Beat Circus) - IMHO the best rock violinist since Robby Steinhardt.
Lisa Isaksson (Lisa O Piu) - harp, guitar, glockenspiel, piano, flute, celeste, various percussion instruments and scored a mjor coup by recording a live album with Roger Wootton of Comus a couple years ago.
Jenny Willhelms (Gjallarhorn) - plays a mean fiddle and an exquisite violin.
Larkin Grimm - a weird chick who grew up in a hippie commune, dropped out of Yale to live in a tent in the woods with a native American shaman (among other things). Writes all her own music and plays guitar, banjo, harp, dulcimer, keyboards and various percussive instruments.
Jane Sorrenti (Saint Just) - played light but engaging 12-string acoustic guitar back in the 70s. The band reunited recently and apparently she's playing keyboard now although I haven't heard their latest material.
Kathleen Baird, Taralie Peterson and Georgia Vallas (Spires That In The Sunset Rise) - their own band and something of an acquired taste but they are very good musicians and songwriters.
Bumble B (Smell of Incense) - she's better known as a vocalist but also plays violin, viola and I believe piano and sitar as well. She also put out a solo album a few years ago on which she plays almost everything.
Melora Creager (Rasputina) - Melora plays cello and sings, and her band (with revolving lineups) has mostly consisted of other cello players and the occasional percussionist. She's also an acquired taste and has lots of original material but also has a penchant for rearranging pop and rock tunes as cello pieces ("American Girl", "Wish You Were Here", "Bad Moon Rising", "Tourniquet", etc.).
Maja De Rado (Porodicna Manufaktura Crnog Hleba) - she was a singer but also the lead guitarist for thispsych-folk Yugosalvian band of the 70s that I didn't like when I first heard them but have grown on me over the years, partly because of her seductive and understated acoustic playing.
Joan Saul (nee Bartle) (Stone Angel) - crumhorn, psaltry, harp, recorder, flute, shawm, accordion, singing bowls, chimes - you get the idea
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Posted: August 09 2012 at 07:16
Grayceon and Giant Squid (Jackie Perez-Gratz on Cello) hAND (Kat Ward on lead vocals, bass and piano) SubRosa (two violinists and the guitarist/singer) Indukti (Ewa Jablonska, violin) All Over Everywhere (loads of women took part here) Anekdoten (Anna Sofi Dahlber cello and keys) Anglagard (Anna Holmgren flute and sax) Ebonylake (Yasmine keys) Ellipsis (FLA Eklektika bass) Espers (Meg Baird, Helena Espvall) The Gathering (Marjolein Kooijman bass) Hiromi Uehara Karda Estra (most of the band) Kayo Dot (Mia Matsumiya violin) My Dying Bride (several women have been in the band playing bass and keys/violin) OOIOO (all female group) Pure Reason Revolution (Chloe Alper bass) Ram-Zet (Saarita violin) White WIllow (various over the years)
These are all the abnds I have with women playing instruments other than the usual bit of small percussion, if I'd included singers as well it would have more than doubled the list.
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Posted: August 09 2012 at 05:25
I know this has come up before but Tori Amos can play rings around any of the best guy keyboarists. And for bass Tal Wilkenfeld. Two ladies at one with their chosen instruments.
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted: August 09 2012 at 04:50
Eveline van Kampen (ILLUMION) immediately springs to mind, and I have a huge amount of respect for Anne-Marie Helder of Panic Room/Mostly Autumn, who plays flute, keyboards, guitar and doubtless other things too, as well as being one of the best vocalists I have ever heard.
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Posted: August 09 2012 at 01:17
Keiko (Ars Nova) is one hell of a good player
Although not prog I like Suzanne Ciani who is sort of the female equivalent of Vangelis
Kate Bush is also a good pianist as well as a singer
Magda Berg in Par Lindh Project used to play violin on occasion although her 'day job' was as the lead singer. Now sadly passed on and very much missed.
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Posted: August 08 2012 at 23:09
Sara Lee was the bassist for Robert Fripp's interesting project "The League of Gentlemen." Sort of a crossover-prog style of music, I saw them in Chicago and was blown away!
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