Female Prog Artists Recommendations. - Progressive Rock Music Forum

I think 'Rock Around the Clock' was #1 in the UK charts when I was born... by the time I properly started listening to rock music at the dawn of the 1970's there was only 15 years or so of rock & roll history to catch up on. I must admit that in recent years I've been getting into some of the wonderful pre-rock & roll era singers, such as The Andrews Sisters, Peggy Lee, Doris Day, Julie London, Eartha Kitt, Ann-Margret, to name but a few.

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Have fun ladies!

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BaldFriede wrote:

Check out the self-titled album of Lily & Maria from 1968.

Lily & Maria are already in my collection... others I have from that era which you might enjoy include: The Carolyn Hester Coalition, *Comfortable Chair, *Fifty Foot Hose, Jonna Gault & Her Symphonopop Scene, Kathy McCord, Linda Perhacs, Marcia Strassman, Margo Guryan, Michele O'Malley, Ruth Copeland, and Sally Eaton.

*These are particularly strange and might just be up your alley!

Edited by Progishness - May 08 2021 at 07:28

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^ I'll put her on the to be explored list.

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yam yam wrote:

Progishness wrote:

I'm mostly into stuff that features plenty of keyboards and leans towards the eclectic / symphonic / folk / psych-space / Canterbury sub-genres - not so much the heavy prog or jazz-fusion.

You might want to check out Julie Slick if you like Eclectic stuff. From her website: "Julie Slick is a virtuoso bassist and composer known for her wide array of unique tones and substantial melodic invention".

Her self-titled debut album from 2010 has no vocals, but is "a seamless blend of progressive rock, jazz-fusion, funk, electronica, avant-garde, and world music influences. The album features an incredible ensemble comprised of Slick’s friends, including King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp and drummer Pat Mastelotto, drummer Marco Minnemann (Paul Gilbert, Kreator, Eddie Jobson), drummer and brother Eric Slick (Dr. Dog), Chapman Stick player Michael Bernier (Stick Men), and guitarist André Cholmondeley (Project Object)." (taken from bandcamp).

Only five of the fourteen tracks can be heard on her bandcamp, but the whole album is on YouTube Music.

Seems to be a rather little-known artist around here, despite her reputation and 'friends' list. No reviews for either of her albums in the ten years that she's been on the site, and only a handful of ratings.

Not my cup of tea really, but she certainly ticks the 'female prog artist' box in a big way!

Thanks for the suggestion - definitely new to me.

"We're going to need a bigger swear jar."

Chloë Grace Moretz as Mindy McCready aka 'Hit Girl' in Kick-Ass 2

Progishness wrote:

I'm mostly into stuff that features plenty of keyboards and leans towards the eclectic / symphonic / folk / psych-space / Canterbury sub-genres - not so much the heavy prog or jazz-fusion.

You might want to check out Julie Slick if you like Eclectic stuff. From her website: "Julie Slick is a virtuoso bassist and composer known for her wide array of unique tones and substantial melodic invention".

Her self-titled debut album from 2010 has no vocals, but is "a seamless blend of progressive rock, jazz-fusion, funk, electronica, avant-garde, and world music influences. The album features an incredible ensemble comprised of Slick’s friends, including King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp and drummer Pat Mastelotto, drummer Marco Minnemann (Paul Gilbert, Kreator, Eddie Jobson), drummer and brother Eric Slick (Dr. Dog), Chapman Stick player Michael Bernier (Stick Men), and guitarist André Cholmondeley (Project Object)." (taken from bandcamp).

Only five of the fourteen tracks can be heard on her bandcamp, but the whole album is on YouTube Music.

Seems to be a rather little-known artist around here, despite her reputation and 'friends' list. No reviews for either of her albums in the ten years that she's been on the site, and only a handful of ratings.

Not my cup of tea really, but she certainly ticks the 'female prog artist' box in a big way!

Two albums of 2021:

-AmartiA: Daylight Beauty,

-Illuminae: Dark Horizons.

yam yam wrote:

No metal here I can assure you - Lainey Schooltree - a Boston-based, classically-trained multi-instrumentalist, composer and singer who composed an award-winning original rock opera called Heterotopia in 2017 about a girl who loses her body and must journey as a ghost through a parallel world of the collective unconscious to get it back.

Sounds promising - another for my (ever growing) list of stuff to be explored.

"We're going to need a bigger swear jar."

Chloë Grace Moretz as Mindy McCready aka 'Hit Girl' in Kick-Ass 2

No metal here I can assure you - Lainey Schooltree - a Boston-based, classically-trained multi-instrumentalist, composer and singer who composed an award-winning original rock opera called Heterotopia in 2017 about a girl who loses her body and must journey as a ghost through a parallel world of the collective unconscious to get it back.

The rest of her band are all men though.

Another little-known female-led band with a more metallic edge to it is hAND, who were founded by Kat Ward and Kieren Johnstone in Sussex, England, in 2004. Kat played bass and provided their vocals, but they are no longer active as hAND, with the duo now writing music together as Boxtape.

Their music as Boxtape is far more of an indie nature than the prog metal they released as hAND.