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MUSICWOMAN with host Diva Joan Cartwright (Diva JC), features women who compose and perform their own music and men who support them. Music, the sound of the spheres, begins in the womb! ~ Diva JC Call in on (563) 999-3046, hit #1 to talk to the host. http://wijsf.org
Episodes
March 22, 2024 • 61 mins
Wendy Vaughan hails from Caracas, Venezuela. She is a singer, songwriter, and saxophonist. Her musical journey began in her childhood. She began composing in her thirties. Born to Cuban and Dominican parents, her family moved to New York City when she was 4. Wendy's musical journey began 12, in Houston, Texas, when she discovered the saxophone. She attended the High School of the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston and San Jacint...
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March 8, 2024 • 64 mins
Alison Crockett is a vibrant vocalist who has performed and recorded in a wide range of genres including neo-soul, acid jazz, R&B, gospel, funk and electronica. Following breakthrough success as a featured vocalist working with DJ King Britt and British jazz-rap group Us3, Alison continued to evolve musically, recording diverse projects: the jazz EP “That’s Where You Go” in 1999, critically acclaimed R&B album On Becoming A Woman i...
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March 1, 2024 • 57 mins
Jessie Laine Powell hails from Lexington, Kentucky. She grew up with her talented siblings, listening to gospel music. Jazz vocalists Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Nancy Wilson, and Shirley Horn, along with the Lawrence Welk Show stirred her soul, dominating her musical taste. Her love for the stage, orchestras, and Jazz standards led her to Hollywood, California, where she opened for Nancy Wilson. She added countless television,...
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November 17, 2023 • 60 mins
Fatimah M. Jackson is a unique and diverse writer, self-published author, spoken word artist, and song writer. From Western Pennsylvania, she dreamed of becoming a singer and songwriter as a child. In her pursuit of that dream, she attended California State College where she majored in Music Composition, Human Services and now she is living that dream. From childhood, or as her mother would say, since she could talk, Fatimah has ...
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November 3, 2023 • 59 mins
Adria Shahid hails from Columbus, Ohio. She is a vocal stylist and songwriter who developed an ear for music by listening to and singing with her father a musician and vocalist. Her mother is a pianist and vocalist. With the tutelage from her parents, Adria was destined to be a musical artist. Adria’s musical journey began with one of the top Midwest cover bands. She shared her story with the debut project, Waarrioress of Love, whi...
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July 7, 2023 • 60 mins
You are invited to the launch of Musicwoman Magazine online.
http://issuu.com/joancartwright
We will talk with some of the featured artists about their musical adventures.
d Vocalists t Janice Harrington 8 t Donna Singer 10 t Denise King 14 t Mzuri Moyo Aimbaye 18 t Michele Hendricks 20 t Fiona Ross 24 t Yeny Silvia Dalmau Brindis 26 d Talent Spotlight t Adriana Herrera Fuentes 30 t Yudianis Quintana Changuita 31 d...
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April 14, 2023 • 61 mins
ZIZA MUFTIC Is a Johannesburg based musician with roots in Zagreb, Croatia. Her musical upbringing started as a Western classical violin player, then a classical singer. Today, her main form of expression lies in jazz vocals, composition and music education. Ziza’s vocal range stretches from Jazz to Western classical repertoire. Her sound is a unique blend of Balkan and Eastern European folk songs with the American and South Africa...
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March 25, 2023 • 60 mins
Kim Clarke is an American bassist from New York. She is the founder of Lady Got Chops, a nonprofit that promotes the gig announcements of women in jazz, in the month of March, Women's History Month.
Her 21st Anniversary LADY GOT CHOPS WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL 2023 featured the music of our Living Jazz Legend, educator, composer, pianist Bertha Hope, the centennial of her husband the late great Bebop pianist co...
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March 10, 2023 • 49 mins
Laurie Towers is a bassist within New York City’s “downtown” scene of free improv, new music and punk-laden experimentalism. Over the past twenty-five years she’s brought her R&B-driven counterpoint and chops to venues in Manhattan and Brooklyn, sharing the stage with an array of musicians in the nexus between rock, jazz and the avant garde. Towers also made her mark in the upstate artists’ community of Woodstock NY where she was r...
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February 24, 2023 • 63 mins
You know that my life's work is bringing awareness to the WORLD about the disparities and inequities of earnings by women musicians.
On Friday, February 24, 2023, at 4 p.m. EST, my guests Melba Joyce, Rita Graham, and I discuss this issue.
You are invited to login or call (563) 999-3046 to listen in or talk to us.
Look forward to this interview!
Thanks,
Dr. Joan Cartwright
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January 20, 2023 • 62 mins
Dorothy Lawson is a Canadian-born cellist. She completed degrees at the University of Toronto, the Vienna Academy and earned MM and DMA degrees from The Juilliard School. Dorothy is an Artistic Director who composed, performed and recorded, nationally and internationally, for 25 years. She is a founding member of ETHEL, the widely acclaimed, GRAMMY®-winning New Music string quartet. Her achievements include, touring and recording w...
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November 11, 2022 • 51 mins
This special edition of MUSICWOMAN Radio features two sultry songwriters whose music plays in rotation in my car, day after day, week after week, month after month.
Sharon Rae North released Silhouette in 2022. I put the CD that she mailed to me in June in my CD player and let it play throughout July, August, and September. The songs crept into my subconcious mind and I found myself singing them in my sleep!
Douyé sent...
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October 21, 2022 • 23 mins
Wendy Kirkland is a pianist and singer in the UK. Her musical career began at 10, when she started piano lessons. She won a scholarship for lessons from Derbyshire Music and took her ABRSM piano grades. She switched to jazz in her teens and was a dance class pianist, accompanist to singers, and a keyboardist in club bands. She was persuaded to sing by guitarist Bill McCreath. Wendy reached people turned off by instrumental jazz by ...
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October 14, 2022 • 57 mins
Fiona Ross was enrolled in dance, drama and singing lessons at the age of two, piano at age six. At what moment did Fiona make a conscious choice to pursue a career in music? There was never a time when there was any other choice. By eight years old, Fiona was starring in London's West End. She is a vocalist, pianist, composer, and producer known for creating her own contemporary jazz sound with fast-paced Latin jazz, vintage Jazz ...
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September 9, 2022 • 61 mins
Naomi Joy Nelson is a multi-talented instrumentalist, educator, author and speaker on a mission to liberate, educate, and motivate others through her personal experience. Trained as both a Musician and Educator with a ministerial background, Naomi combines her love of outreach, music and education into a harmonious presentation. A graduate of Florida A&M University, highly sought out musician, minister, and speaker, Naomi has been ...
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July 29, 2022 • 62 mins
Jackie Pickett hails from Pennsylvania. She began her career as a section bassist with the Jacksonville, Florida Symphony Orchestra. She is Principal Bassist of the Columbus, Georgia Symphony Orchestra and LaGrange Georgia Symphony Orchestra. Pickett serves as Principal Bass of the Colour of Music International Black Classical Musicians Festival. She is an Artist Affiliate at Agnes Scott College. The American double-bassist obtain...
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May 20, 2022 • 56 mins
Dottie Kelly was born in West Palm Beach, FL, on March 13. She moved to Clearwater, FL, where she attended St. Pete Junior College and earned her Associates degree in accounting. Dottie sang in a Baptist church, which is where she developed her talent for singing. She would later follow her Aunt Betty Padgett, a well-known singer out of Ft. Lauderdale, FL, to her various shows. Aunt Betty Padgett eventually asked Dottie to sing bac...
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May 6, 2022 • 61 mins
Raymond Rivera was born in Lansing Michigan. His father and mother moved to East Chicago, Indiana and, when Ray was 14, they began living in Puerto Rico where he started playing drums in church. He studied in The Music School Juan Peña Reyes for three years. I had the privilege to perform in lots of seminars with Peter Erskine, Alex Acuña, Horacio Hernandez, and John Riley. He studied music with the most renowned drums. Ray has th...
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April 15, 2022 • 59 mins
Madhuri Jagadeesh was born into a family of musicians and artists, trained in the Indian Classical arts. Her connection with jazz began as a six, when she heard Ella Fitzgerald'sTisket-a-Tasket. She learned the rhyme in school and her grandfather, a harmonica player, taught her other songs, including Stormy Weather that she thought was his composition! As a teen, she listened to jazz on vinyl. There were no opportunities in Bengal...
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April 8, 2022 • 62 mins
Fostina Dixon is from Wilmington, Delaware where she studied with Robert Boysie Lowery. Fostina is a composer, vocalist, and jazz soloist who plays soprano, alto, and baritone saxes; flute; and clarinet. As a young woodwind instrumentalist, she played for Delaware All-State Band and American Young Symphonic Orchestra in Europe. She studied with Frank Foster, Buddy Collett, Vic Morosco, Joe Viola, Andy McGhee, and William Bowie. She...
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