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GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE

September 18, -1992

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sense of community and concern that they heard in the personal accounts and saw on the land. Price said that both women were quite aware by the time they left that it was that sense of community and care which had saved their daughters' lives. In the course of their tour of the festival, the two mothers stopped briefly in the crafts area and shopped for some presents to bring their children in the hospital.

Additionally, Price and Lisa Vogel, the other producer, planned to send along to the women T-shirts and other festival-related gifts as well as copies of tapes of some of the performances they had missed.

Comic Karen Williams

Cool nights and hot performances

The chill in the evening air at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival was easily offset by the heat from its stages, generated by daring, innovative performers from around the world. Indeed, the cold weather seemed to be the only issue at this year's gathering, where women and nature, in rare collusion, cooperated harmoniously. The result was a moving week enjoyed by some 7,500 women.

Included among the highlights were:

Dance Brigade's challenging, multifaceted performance piece "On the Edge of the World: Goodbye Columbus!," which blended music, dance and poetry to illustrate Native-American and indigenous

peoples' resistance and strength in combatting genocide and colonialism from Columbus to the present.

New Zealand's The Topp Twins, whose tight

country-western harmonies and outrageous good humor were a constant twangy delight.

●Axis Dance Troupe, a collaboration of able-bodied and wheelchair-bound women whose beautifully choreographed, imaginative pieces redefined the flow of form and motion into dance.

● Shikisha, a group of four women from South Africa who brought the music, rhythms and dances of their country to the U.S. and blew away the audience with the power of their performance.

● Susan Jackson & Nathie Marbury, two theatrical performances by deaf women speaking in their own language, who, in a unique twist, used interpreters to "voice” for them.

● Urban Bush Women, a New Yorkbased dance troupe, celebrated the beat of the streets and forms of movement not typically considered "dance" in their piece. "I Don't Know But I've Been Told, If You Keep On Dancing You'll Never Grow Old." ● The Sunday afternoon comedy show-

case, a non-stop, three-hour, gut-wrenching, face-aching laugh which featured NYC comic Sara Cytron; the stunning, powerfemme Suzanne Westenhoefer; Dos Fallopia, a raucous duo of Venus Envy's Lisa Koch and comedian Peggy Platt; and diva Karen Williams.

Many well-known faces also graced the various stages: Vicki Randle found time away from her busy schedule with the Tonight Show band to seduce women with her soulful voice and moving music; Carolyn Brandy, who was joined by a ninewoman band, presented a set of original Latin-funk pieces written expressly for the festival; Casselberry-Dupree pumped up the crowd with their political perspective and reggae beats; diva-rock queens Betty were their usual campy, wild-eyed selves; and Toshi Reagon delivered a tight set of rock along with an impassioned plea for lesbians to stop trashing one another, and instead work together to identify the real enemies we need to fight.

It was certainly a week to remember.

Four members of Urban Bush Women

Photos by M.J. Hochberg

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Music!

• Free Cider, Coffee and Doughnuts

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• Hotdogs and Snacks available!

• Free Pumpkin!

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