SATURDAY MAY 19, 2012 7PM
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ALIX DOBKIN
Alix Dobkin's career began in the late 1950s, when Philadelphia was a hotbed of do-it-yourself culture that magnetized folk music on the East Coast. She was a teen-aged, guitar-totin', card-carrying comrade grounding myself in mushrooming crowds of progressive Jews, self-taught musicians and other local subversives. Immediately after graduating from the Tyler School of Fine Arts, she headed east to NYC's world-famous Gaslight Cafe, and from that rich, heady, heart of Greenwich Village in the early '60's, I launched my full-time, professional folk-singing career. Focusing during the first decade on a traditional, international, and contemporary/protest repertory, she came out as a Lesbian in 1972 and turned to writing and singing for women in general and to building Lesbian culture in particular."
Over the last 25 years she has traveled to hundreds of women's communities in this country and many others. They honor and reflect our unique feminist style, substance, issues and values. In addition to seven recordings, she has one songbook, many years' worth of columns and articles, and a shelf full of awards to her name, She was voted "All Time Favorite Performer" by Hot Wire magazine, and has been known to some as "Head Lesbian!" Spin magazine called me a "Womyn's music legend" and the FBI reported that she was a "trouble maker."
SCOTT FREE
Scott Free, the queer-rock singer/songwriter extraordinaire, is one of America's leading openly-gay male artists. His sometimes humorous, sometimes angry, always touching songs of queer life have gained him acclaim in both gay and straight media across the globe. In 2010, he was inducted into the City of Chicago Gay & Lesbian Hall of Fame. He has twice been named Outmusician of the Year by the OUTMusic Awards - in 2005 and 2009. He also won Out Song of The Year in 2005 at the OMAs for his song 'Another Day of The Cruelty'. His music video 'Happy Again' was in the Top10 Videos of 2009 on LOGOs 'The Click List'. He has appeared on Black Entertainment Television, NPR's 'All Things Considered', and Canada's MuchMusic station. His CDs have received glowing reviews in The Advocate, OUT magazine, and numerous gay publications around the country. He was a featured artist in Unzipped magazine in 2005, and Bear Magazine in 2010. He received two Stonewall Society Pride in the Arts Awards in 2005 - Song of the Year and Producer of the Year - and was inducted into the Stonewall Society's GLBT Hall Of Fame in 2005. He won Outmusicin of the Year at the OMAs in 2009, and his latest album 'Pink Album (A Pop Opera)' was the #1 CD of 2009 at Outvoice.net. He started this ALT Q festival eleven years ago, and is the host and curator of the bimonthly 'Homolatte' , the longest running queer performance series in the country.
