Alix Dobkin
Saturday, May 3 * 8 pm
Join us in the home of April and Jerry Blum in Adelphi, MD to hear an acoustic music legend who hasn?t appeared in the DC area for many, many years! Alix Dobkin had her start as a folk singer in the 1950s in Philadelphia and Greenwich Village. At the age of 25, she appeared with Dave Van Ronk at Carnegie Hall. She rose to fame in 1973 with her first album, Lavender Jane Loves Women, quickly becoming an icon of women's music. She has performed on several continents and written a memoir that was a Lambda Literary Award finalist.
Currently Alix is touring with songs from her early days as a folk singer, along with music from the albums she's put out over the years. She will also have copies of her book My Red Blood: a Memoir of Growing up Communist, coming onto the Greenwich Village folk scene, and coming out in the feminist movement (Alyson Books, 2009).
Here is a quote from Alix?s website www.alixdobkin.com :
"...in the late 1950s, ... Philadelphia was a hotbed of do-it-yourself culture that magnetized folk music on the East Coast. I was a teenaged, guitar-totin', card-carrying comrade grounding myself in mushrooming crowds of progressive Jews, self-taught musicians and other local subversives."
The ?Blum Ballroom? is at the end of a quiet cul de sac near New Hampshire Avenue and the Beltway. For reservations/driving directions/more information, please contact Deb Friedman at 240-593-6237 or by email. Suggested donation: $12 - $25.
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