Sappho's Salon Featuring Alix Dobkin

Saturday, April 17, 2010, 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM  |  view details and directions

Sappho's Salon welcomes lesbian music legend, community activist, and original DIY artist, Alix Dobkin to our stage! Dobkin sheparded in an era of lesbian-postive folk music with her landmark 1973 album, "Lavender Jane Loves Women". Dobkin continued to release groundbreaking and affirmative music, including "Living with Lesbians", "XX Alix", a live album, and the 1998 rerelease of her first two recordings. In 2009 Alyson published "My Red Blood" her memoir of coming-of-age in the 1950s Greenwich Village folk scene. Tonight, Dobkin will be sharing excerpts from her life story and regaling us with song. Don't miss this truly special Sappho's, where we look back to and celebrate our roots. It will be a real coffeehouse hootenanny.Dobkin will be joined by Sappho's house DJ SpinNikki. $7-10 sliding fee donation benefits the artists and the Women's Voices Fund. Food and wine are included.

Getting there

5233 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL

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