Through festival and performance footage, interviews, and archival material, the film delves into the rich and beautiful history of women creating a cultural life based in a commitment to diversity, personal integrity, feminism and women loving women. In its heyday, during the 1970s and 80s, women's music offered a different message than mainstream musical culture. It opened doors for women musicians, producers, sound and light technicians and for new women-owned recording companies and women-oriented shows. Pioneers like Cris Williamson, Margie Adam and Linda Tillery recall the frustrations and the triumphs of finding women sound engineers and other professionals in a completely male-dominated industry.

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Although several films have highlighted aspects of women's music, this groundbreaking documentary is the first to explore the full depth and spectrum of its history and impact. Radical Harmonies features such early stars of women's music as Meg Christian, Holly Near, and Mary Watkins, as well as contemporary artists Indigo Girls, Ani DiFranco, Bitch and Animal, and Melissa Ferrick. Additionally, the film highlights the whole infrastructure that made possible the recording, production, and dissemination of the work of these talented performers.

Radical Harmonies movingly illustrates how the women's music movement changed the lives of countless women.

AWARDS

  • Audience Award for Best Documentary: 2002 San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
  • Award for OUTstanding Soundtrack: 2003 OUTFEST Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
  • 2003 American Musicological Society Philip Brett Award to Boden Sandstrom

REVIEWS

Books To Watch Out For doesn't usually cover video: but we couldn't resist mentioning that Radical Harmonies, Dee Mosbacher's wonderful documentary chronicling the history of women's music, is now available at people's prices. It's a wonderful look at the women who decided to make music for women Ð from Meg Christian to Ferron, from Linda Tillery to Tribe 8 Ð and how they changed the world along the way. It's the perfect flashback entertainment for New Year's celebrations. Put it on the screen and watch the reminiscences begin. Radical Harmonies won the Best Documentary Audience Award at the 2002 San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. $39.95 VHS or DVD. Check it out at your local bookstore, www.WomanVision.org, or www.Ladyslippermusic.com, Or get your local library or video store to order it for you.
- Books to Watch Out For December 2003

"A musical feast for both the ears and the soul, this multi-award-winning film is a must for serious music and cultural studies collections. Highly recommended.".
- Video Librarian July/August 2004

"Dee Mosbacher's film, "Radical Harmonies" is a portrait of a music that emerged as much out of passion as necessity. She has done a brillant job of capturing this important movement as a whole as well as the individual artists, activists and entrepeneurs who created it".
- Jim Fleming, founder of Fleming & Associates exclusviely representing some of the most important artists touring today including Ani DiFranco, Dan Bern, Melissa Ferrick, Ember Swift, Tom Paxton and, Utah Phillips.

"Without the contributions of these splendid, radical artists our culture would be the poorer, not to say incomplete, to an indescribable degree. I am much the richer for having seen this splendid video and, as good art invariably does for me, I feel greatly renewed and inspired."
- Tom Paxton

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