An Evening with Atta-GIRL!

Hello Richmond, Virginia area friends!

To celebrate the birth of Atta-GIRL (and the birthday of a friend), DJ Ladybrain, Solid Scorp, and myself are taking over the Portrait House stereo tomorrow night. We will be playing music made by or fronted by women from the past half century. 

Come on out and hear an evening of impeccable music curated by some very friendly, kick ass ladies. 10pm to midnight!

Below are some of the things I will be playing.

Nancy Sinatra

Nancy Sinatra was among the first women I began obsessively collecting records by. I have always been drawn to the complex layers at work behind her image during the '60s and '70s. She was a strong woman yet was also daddy's good little girl (Frank Sinatra to be exact). She was a sex kitten with claws. She believed that a feminist could still be sexy and that the two were not mutually exclusive from each other. Here is a great read on "Female Empowerment, Nancy's Way" . This push and pull of sexy and strong appears time and time again in music (from Kathleen Hanna to Beyoncé) so while there were plenty of bad ass ladies that came before Nancy in music, it really all started with her for me. 

 

I dig Nancy so much that I took my DJ and social media name from this hit Lee Hazlewood wrote for her.