3/12/2008 Echo Chamber

In celebration of International Women's Day (March 8th) and National Women's History Month, the Echo Chamber presented its annual *Beautiful Sounds of Women...Around the World* special. And what a varied list of women singers players we had on this year's show: Dawn Penn, Boney L, Aretha Franklin, Little Tasha, Amparo Sanchez, Doreen Schaffer, Cherine Anderson, Marcia Griffiths, Sonya Spence, Angelique Wilke (Seven Dub), Doris Dread, Natacha Atlas, Aisha, Sussan Deyhim, Queen Tiney, Sista Pat, Mounam (The Dynamics), Rhoda Dakar (The Bodysnatchers), Hollie Cook, Candy Lewis, Nora Dean, Andrea Parker, Cynthia Richards, Claudette Thomas, Pauline Black (The Selecter), Madonna, Chara, Sista Omni, Myrna Hague, Puffy Ami Yumi, Suphala, Likkle Mai (Dry Heavy), Rita Marley, and Tricia Grant (Miss Jamaica 1996). Wow! What a group of Women...

This year's motto for National Women's History Month: Women’s Art: Women’s Vision:http://www.nwhp.org/whm/index.php. As in past years, this special show is dedicated to the late Clara Zetkin -- German socialist and the real mother of International Women's Day.
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Note: * indicates recent releases and newly re-released material
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