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Women in Bluegrass is an 8 to 10 page newsletter that focuses exclusively on women in bluegrass. It is published 4 times a year, Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall. [Note: Publication has been suspended while Murphy is writing her book on women in bluegrass. At the moment we are not accepting subscriptions. We do have tentative plans to resume publication when this book project is completed.] Earlier issues featured interviews with the following women:

Number 1: Louisa Branscomb
Number 2: (no interview but...) the Questionnaire, "Estrogen Jam" at Owensboro, Horror Stories
Number 3: Lynn Morris
Number 4: Suzanne Thomas and Mary Jo Leet
Number 5: Claire Lynch
Number 6: Gloria Belle
Number 7: New Coon Creek Girls
Number 8: Missy Raines, Vivian Williams, Susi Gott, Nancy Pate, Casey and Murphy Henry
Number 9: Patsy Stoneman, Mary Gibbons
Number 10: Vivian Williams
Number 11: Trina Emig, Juanita Sheehan
Number 12: The Shankman Twins, Alan O'Bryant, Rose Maddox
Number 13: Women in Bluegrass at IBMA
Number 14: Hazel McGee and Anita Mathis
Number 15: Ingrid Herman Reese (Ingrid Fowler)
Number 16: Where Are the Sidewomen
Number 17: Missy Raines Reigns!, Murphy's IBMA Keynote Address
Number 18: Betty Fisher, Part I; The Men Respond
Number 19: Betty Fisher, Part II; Bluegrass and Sexuality by Tom Adler
Number 20: Bluegrass Women Who Don't Play Instruments on Stage: "To Pick Or Not To Pick," Valerie Smith, Jeanette Williams, and Suzanne Thomas; "Barriers In Bluegrass"
Number 21: "Where Are The Female Flatpickers?", "Musical Gender Bending--Proving Yourself In A Jam", Terry Boswell
Number 22: Wibbers In The Bay Area: Laurie Lewis, Beth Weil, Kathy Kallick
Number 24: Women Instrumentalists: Darlene Hodges (fiddle), Michelle Porter (mandolin)
Number 23: Sharon K. Watts Of Bluegrass Unlimited, "Ralphed!", Helena Bretfeldova
Number 25: WIB at IBMA 2000, Sally Ann Forrester, part 1
Number 26: Sally Jones and the Sidewinders, Sally Ann Forrester, part 2
Number 27: WIB in Japan, Bluegrass at the Beach, A Rant by Hilary Sloan
Number 28: Alice Gerrard, Laurie Lewis, Neil Rosenberg, Sally Ann Forrester, part 3
Number 29: Roni Stoneman, O Sister, Dee Ann Davidshofer
Number 30: Rubye Davis Interview, Uncle Earl
Number 31: Alison Brown's IBMA Keynote Address, Eulaine Blumenthal, Sally Ann Forrester, part 4
Number 32: Memphis Beck Gentry, part 1, Wibbers in Tasmania
Number 33: Memphis Beck Gentry, part 2, Adrienne Young



For women only: I started a database several years ago of all women in bluegrass, professional and semi-professional (no students, please). If you would like to be a part of this database and would like to fill out the Questionnaire, please do so by clicking below. If you know of anyone who should be included, please direct them to this site.

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Now available! Murphy Henry's IBMA Keynote Address: Women in Bluegrass