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WDCB Encore Film Series: 'The Girls In The Band' at College Of Dupage - Jack H. Turner Conference Center
Courtesy of WDCB Radio | Posted on January 30, 2018
Where
College Of Dupage - Jack H. Turner Conference Center
425 Fawell Blvd
Glen Ellyn, IL
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When
Fri, March 23, 2018
8:00 pm
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Tickets on-sale beginning 2/15/18
They wiggled, they jiggled, they wore low cut gowns and short shorts, they kowtowed to the club owners and smiled at the customers…and they did it all, just to play the music they loved. In the thirties and forties, hundreds of women musicians toured the country in glamorous All-Girl Bands, while others played side by side with their male counterparts. Yet by the mid-fifties female jazz musicians had literally disappeared from the workplace; their names, their contributions to music, completely forgotten.
THE GIRLS IN THE BAND tells the poignant, untold stories of female jazz and big band instrumentalists and their fascinating, groundbreaking journeys from the late 30s to the present day....