Introduction

Alix Dobkin: Love & Politics: A 30 Year Saga

Biography

Long, long ago, maybe even before you were born, way far back in the late 1950's... Philadelphia was a hotbed of do-it-yourself culture, magnetizing folk music on the East Coast... and I was a teenaged 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 I 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 folksinging career.

I 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 30 years I have travelled to hundreds of women's communities in many countries. It has been my privilege and pleasure to gather elements of our common culture and to create a body of songs and workshops to share with you, honoring and reflecting our unique Lesbian style, substance, issues and values.

I currently have six albums and one songbook to my name, was voted "All Time Favorite Performer" by Hot Wire magazine, and have been called "Head Lesbian" - but not by the FBI, who preferred "subversive".

These days, a lot of my time is spent with my grandson, the wonderful Lucca Ray.

If you aren't already familiar with my work, I hope you will soon be. Just check out this page and then browse through the discography. For more info, email me.

Discography

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Email: xxalix@aol.com

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