MUSICWOMAN

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Women who compose and perform their own music and men who support them
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Glass Ceiling Here Also?

by Anne Annie Friedland

Apr 9, 2009

OKI am a femaile MUSICIAN not just a singing diva, but I also have been playing piano and organ for 45 years! I am finding it is much harder for a woman alone to even make contact w/male promotrs, club owners etc even when we are at LEAST of comparable talent and sometime M ORE TALENTED. Does anyone else fing this to be true>

OK SO NOBODY KNOWS, THEN TELL ME THIS:

 

 

SHOULD I STOP PLAYING AND BECOME JUST A 'DIVA" HIRING A PIANIST OR SHOULD I CONTINUE TO PLAY??????

 

 

 

 

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    Diva JC

    Anne,
    This is why I founded www.wijsf.org
    However, I find that many of the women musicians are so stifled by the difficulties of being a musician and a woman that they become the obstruction to their own success.

    This is truly a problem. As a singer, I work with men most of the time. Whenever I engage women, there's a lot of drama attached to the gig. It's unbearable sometimes. But I keep working to promote women musicians, nevertheless. However, it's stifling my ability to make an income for myself.

    JC
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    Oct 9, 2010