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Fanny: The Right to Rock
Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Jerome Liebling Center
Hampshire College
Weds Feb 11th at 6pm
Sometime in the 1960s, in sunny Sacramento, two Filipina-American sisters got together with other teenage girls to play music. Little did they know their garage band would evolve into the legendary rock group Fanny, the first all-women band to issue an LP with a major record label (Warner/Reprise, 1970). Despite releasing five critically-acclaimed albums over five years, touring with famed bands from Slade to Chicago and amassing a dedicated fan base of music legends including David Bowie, Fanny's groundbreaking impact in music was written out of history... until bandmates reunite 50 years later with a new rock record deal. With incredible archival footage of the band's rocking past intercut with its next chapter releasing a new LP today, the film includes interviews with a large cadre of music icons, including Def Leppard's Joe Elliott, Bonnie Raitt, The Go-Go's Kathy Valentine, Todd Rundgren, The Runaways' Cherie Currie, Lovin' Spoonful's John Sebastian, The B52's Kate Pierson, Charles Neville, and David Bowie guitarist and bassist Earl Slick and Gail Ann Dorsey. Fighting early barriers of race, gender and sexuality in the music industry, and now ageism, the incredible women of Fanny are ready to claim their hallowed place in the halls of rock 'n' roll fame.
Our special screening of this lively documentary will be followed by a discussion with June Millington, who not only co-founded Fanny but also the Institute for Musical Arts (IMA), a mainstay of feminist music-making in Western Massachusetts. She will joined by her partner and IMA-cofounder Ann Hackler and by alums of IMA. Dr. Priscilla Page, Associate Professor of Theater at UMass, will moderate the conversation.
Watch the trailer here!
Learn about IMA here!
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