If you live in Vermont and want to go
to a women's music concert, that has tradi-
tionally meant traveling for hours to places
like Boston, Montreal, or Albany. This will
allchangein November when Queen's Run
Concerts brings four of the biggest names
in women’s music to Vermont in a three-
concert series.

On Sunday,November4,at 8:00 p.m.,
Holly Near will appear at the Barre Opera
House in Barre, Vermont. Holly began her
recording career twenty years ago protest-
ing the war in Vietnam. Since then, she has
never stopped singing, touring, and speak-
ing out for the causes in which she believes.

Holly is an electrifying performer, one
who has appeared in virtually every major
club and concert hall in the United States
and Canada, including Carnegie Hall. Her
autobiography, Fire in the Rain, Singer in
the Storm, published in August, has re-
ceived favorable attention in the New York
Times. Her newest album, Singer in the
Storm, was released to accompany the
book.

On Saturday, November 17, at 7:00
p.m., another founding figure in women’s
music, Cris Williamson, will appear at
Burlington’s Contois Auditorium. Cris
will be performing with Tret Fure, as she
often does. ’

This year Cris Williamson and Olivia
Records are celebrating the 15th anniver-
sary of The Changer and the Changed, the
“little album that could” which has sold
more than 250,000 copies by word of

mouth alone. The Changer and the
Changed still epitomizes women’s music
better than any other single albmn. Re-
leased in 1975 at a time ofgreat hope and
promise in the women’s movement, it re-
calls the mood of those years, summoning
up for lesbians and other women a world in
which we once lived, if only for the length
of time it took to play the album, and to
which we hope one day to return. Also a
wonderful performer, Cris’s concerts are
intimate and personal, filled with stories
illuminating her unique and often quirky
perspective on the world she creates
through her music.

Tret Fure is a high energy singer and
musician who, with her electric guitar,
brought rock’n’roll to women’s music. She
has just released her third album for Olivia,
entitled Time Turns the Moon.

The series concludes the next day,
Sunday, November 18, at 8:00p.m., with a
concert by Canadian singer-songwriter
Ferron at Montpelier City Hall.T'he concert
will showcase her recent release on Chame-
leon records.

More introspectivethanHolly,Cris,or
Tret, Ferron is known for her restless music
and her poetic and thought-provoking lyr-
ics. She sings of a complex, contemporary
world where things frequently don’t work
out for the best and people of good will
frequently fail at love. Though often bitter-
sweet, Ferron is never despairing. The
sadness of her music is redeemed by its
beauty and by the intensity and integrity of

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Women's Music Series Coming in November

her voice. She seems to be saying that we
face our lives squarely, we grow and we
move forward.

Tickets for the three concerts can be
purchased at the Peace and Justice Center
in Burlington, Buch Spieler in Montpelier,
and Folk in Hanover, New Hampshire.
Tickets are $15.00, $16.00, and $16.00
respectively for the Cris, Holly, and Ferron
shows. Series tickets are available for
$45.00. For mail order information, call
(802) 254-5238.

Though called women's music, which
is usually a euphemism for lesbian music,
this is wonderful music that speaks to eve-
rybody: female or male, gay or straight. We
are very fortunate to have artists of this
caliber appearing in our neighborhood.
Please support these concerts and tell all
your friends so that we can keep women’s
music concerts coming to Vermont.

HAPPY
HALLOWEEN
FROM

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