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p.o. box 18175, cleveland heights, ohio 44118, (216) 321-1587
Sister Rhapsody
Oven Productions is pleased to announce that "Sister Rhapsody," a feminist band, will perform in concert Saturday, April 19, 8:30 p.m., at 2728 Lancashire Road, Cleveland Heights. Tickets will be $5.00, available in advance from the Rape Crisis Center, and by mail from Oven Productions. Free child-care will be provided; please call 321-1587 or 932-0977 (evenings) the week of the concert to let us know how many children.
. One of the most important functions Oven Productions serves is to support and encourage feminist performers from Cleveland. "Sister Rhapsody" is just such a group of women. Lisa Rainsong, on piano, vocals, and guitar, has been writing songs for the past twelve years and is currently composing most of the music performed by the band. Initially a solo performer, she later joined creative efforts with Mudslide to form a feminist duo. As Rainsong and Mudslide, they performed around Northeast Ohio and also at the open mike at the Michigan Women's Music Festival. During the past year, Lisa also directed and arranged most of the music for the Cleveland Women's Choir.
Mudslide, on bass guitar, oboe, and vocals, is a professional oboist with several classical ensembles in the Cleveland area, and has studied at the BaldwinWallace Conservatory of Music. She performed with Lisa Rainsong for about a year, and also has assisted in directing the Cleveland Women's Choir.
Michelle, on tenor sax, vocals, and percussion, began studying sax fourteen years ago and currently studies at the Cleveland Music School Settlement A. stint with a jazz band in Europe led her to study the art of jazz scafting-using the voice as an instrument. Before joining the band, she helped organize the Women's Music Collective in Lansing, Michigan.
K.T., on drums and percussion, is a self-taught percussionist who learned to play by sound, sight,
Network/WSW
Networking on a regional, national, and even international level is a growing movement to promote community. Everyone networks in the different spheres of her life. Friendships and contacts expand and contract, fulfilling needs and growing as our lives change. An intentional Network complements our everyday personal exchange and adds a new dimension of decreased randomness and increased openness. This strictly person-to-person venture facilitates cooperation and generates questions, answers, ideas, and dreams in a circular, greater return fashion. Each member of a Network is a "weaver" whose designs are interwoven by choice and increase resource access.
Unlike traditional organizations, an open network need not endorse any one particular ideology, and expresses non-competitive non-hierarchical action. The decision-making arena of the locker room and the business fraternity is private turf. Rather than imitate these institutions, we need to resist the'pressure to exclude and compartmentalize. Networking is a promising alterative to the "men's room" for women to bond and share information.
WSW/Network is a grassroots linkage of the women's community in Ohio. You can participate in the Network by sending us a short summary (no more than 100 words), identifying your explorations, talents, abilities-anything you would like to share about yourself. At periodic intervals WSW will print these entries-with first names only-to make the.
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and intuition. She has played with six different allwomen bands at night clubs, mixers, anti-war rallies, and feminist gatherings around the Greater Cleveland area. This diverse group produces a sound which includes jazz, rock, blues, and ragtime in-
Photo by Ann Greitzer
fluences in vocal and instrumental pieces.
Women's music is alive and thriving in Cleveland, thanks to women who commit their time, energy and talents to community efforts. Local performers welcome your support and encouragement, and Oven Productions believes wholeheartedly that our own artists can contribute a great deal to the life of our com-
Network visible and encourage others to participate. In addition to or instead of a short passage, you can enter as many as 500 words about yourself into the Network. Unlike the short passage, this will not be published, but will be accessible to other Network members by mail. Names, addresses, telephone numbers and passages of networkers are circulated only within the Network. The option of printing the shorter version will be up to each individual.
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munity, given the opportunity to perform. Join us on April 19 for an evening of good music.
Women's party following the Sister Rhapsody concert at 3144 Essex Road, $1 admission, cash bar. The photographs from the Variety Show will be
K.T., Lisa, Mudslide and Michele: Sister Rhapsody
available at Coventry Books-on April 7th and 14th from 7:30-9:00 p.m. Please bring your money, as orders must be prepaid.
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All are welcome to enrich the array of resources and possibilities. Send your name, address, telephone number, passage and $1.00 to Network/WSW, P.O. Box 18465, Cleveland Heights, Ohio 44118. Please include a self-addresed stamped envelope and indicate whether or not you would like your shorter version printed. As a part of the Network, it will be up to you to initiate further connections and to respond to cooperators who are interested in you.
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Please include a check for $1.00 payable to What She Wants and a self-addressed stamped envelope.
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