Happy International Women's Day 2014!
To celebrate the amazing women musicians in our hearts, heads and ears, we've chosen some of our favourite women-focused pieces from the last two years.
Whether you love indie, jazz, electronic, blues, country, classical, folk, pop, hip-hop, rock or some phenomenal cross/fusion genre of all of those sounds, there are remarkable women to be found at every turn and all over the globe.
Feist, Snowblink, and AroarA talk about discovering their voices
Guitar Women: Suzie Vinnick, Donna Grantis and Christine Bougie in session
5 new female jazz singers you should hear
Defining awesomeness: world music divas, a photo gallery
Country music's 'year of women' myth (excerpt from CBC Music Magazine issue 1)
Bye bye blurred lines: how 2013 became the year of women, open letters and fighting back
10 lessons I’ve learned from Dolly Parton
Inuk throat singer Tanya Tagaq on reclaiming Nanook of the North
5 new female world music singers you should hear
Top 5 anthems for International Women’s Day
Rita MacNeil, Cape Breton's first lady of song: a lasting influence
Q & A with Ann Wilson of Heart
Loreena McKennitt: Canada’s unexpected godmother of DIY music
Q&A with Lila Downs: Carnality and the church
Bettye LaVette's 'favourite female singers' playlist
Nikki Yanofsky’s jazz advice for newbies
Q&A: Cellist Cris Derksen, rising star on her own scene
Diane Loomer, lion-taming choral conductor, dies in Vancouver
The stories behind Peter Gabriel's Real World Records: Sheila Chandra
In praise of Grimes: HAIM speak out about sexism, girl power and women in music
Giants of Jazz: Mary Lou Williams in exclusive interview from CBC's Hot Air archive
Elinor Frey on 5 solo cello pieces that'll make you forget the Bach cello suites
Letter to my teacher: Emilie-Claire Barlow
Concha Buika: a complicated voice
'Gender equality is a myth': Beyoncé pens powerful essay
by Andrea Warner via Electronic RSS
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