In August 1999, I performed an evening of music celebrating women's music
of the 70's. It was my great pleasure to work with pianist/composer
Adrienne Torf. As I looked through my women's music collection to gather
songs, I was moved by the huge contribution of creativity, skill, energy,
and bravery.

A list began to form in my mind (and then on paper) of all the women
musicians who had been part of that extraordinary time. We were the musical
reflection of the women's movement and the lesbian movement. Like any
political song movement the music challenged, comforted, educated, and
invited the heart to fall in love with a new perspective on life and
humanity.

There is no way to accurately measure the impact this music had on society
but by naming and remembering we begin. I read my list at the concert and
asked people in the audience to call out names I had forgotten. Later, Alix
Dobkin and Susan Wiseheart put the final and orderly touches on the list.
Here it is. Enjoy. Remember. And feel the size of the footprint.