Aradia, Susan Wiseheart Collection

Item Data

  • Collection Title: Aradia Susan Wiseheart Collection
  • Item Title: Alix Dobkin in Concert, 1979
  • ID Number: ASW-013
  • Date Range: 12-28-1979
  • Description: Alix Dobkin Concert, December 1979, Grand Rapids, Michigan. 1 tape of 4
  • Biographical/Historical Note:
  • Genres: Concert
  • Places: Grand Rapids, MI
  • Access & Use: Contact Lesbian Home Movie Project (LHMP) info@lesbianhomemovieproject.org. No re-use without permission. LHMP must contact donor Susan Wiseheart with regard to any re-use.
  • Color or B&W: B&W
  • Related Versions: Reels 2, 5, 8, 13 all record the same concert.
  • Running Time: 32:04, 08
  • Rights:
  • Sound: Sound
  • Subjects: Women's music, Lesbian separatism-United States
  • Creators: Aradia Collective
  • Collaborators & Participants: Alix Dobkin For program information or if you or friends were at this show, we hope you'll email us at info@lesbianhomemovieproject.org & let us know. We'll share your input if that's okay, or just preserve it.
  • Source Format: 1/2" open reel tape
  • Format: 1/2" open reel
  • Viewing Log: Alix talks about a breach between her and Kay Gardner in the mid-1970s & how it slowly repaired in order to introduce a song she wrote about the experience. 05:51,08 About past October 6 week European tour and being a Jew in Germany where she had the most concerts. 14:39, 26 Introduces an old Jewish song which begins "Yonder yonder far away they have driven you far away from me of your eyes like black cherries, lips like... fingers like feathers, won't you please write to me from afar." 19:47, 25 "I'd like to dig down to my past a little now." 21:08, or so -- song, Tanya? "Sweet sweeter sweetest love, I just can't keep myself from you." 23:50, 24 Next patter, A thought for Penny. If any of you here are not lesbians, I sure hope this helps you come out. Very touched when women say her music has helped them come out. Wrote it for a friend Penny who was straight. Very intelligent woman. Report that Penny is now a lesbian. Audience yays 25:40, 04 strumming song On manhating. Goes to static at 21:49, 11