WOMEN WHO DJ: Brecon Women's Festival 2023

We are excited to present this event as part of Brecon Women's Festival 2023. In two parts, the aim is to bring together women with industry experience with our local community to explore what it takes to be a female DJ.
The first part will be a forum with a fantastic panel who will share their stories, answer questions and shed light on life as a DJ. We welcome anyone who would like to learn more, would like to have more opportunities to play music in the area and who might be keen to learn practical skills and ideas going forward. This is a free event supported by The Muse. There will be a light vegan meal offered after the discussion. Donations welcome.
We reconvene for the evening event from 8pm with some local, upcoming DJs starting things off, followed by our great guest DJs from the panel. Come along for some music on a variety of mediums made, produced and played by women! Expect funk, reggae, soul, world music and more. All welcome! £5

Meet the panel:
Rebekah Lucas - Hay based - involved in setting up Hay Free Radio CIC which includes events of live music as well as DJ sets.

DJ Marva - Marva is a former club and community radio DJ and digital artist from Toronto, Canada, who made a name for herself in the local music scene over 30 years ago. She worked as a DJ at Showbiz and the Diamond Club, where she played a mix of rock, soul, funk, house, hip hop, reggae, and disco music to packed crowds. She was also a community radio DJ at CKLN radio, where she hosted a popular show that showcased up-and-coming local and international musicians and performance artists, writers, visual, film and spoken word artists. She was a respected DJ within Toronto's alternative music, Black and Women's communities, including annual IWD dances at Toronto's Concert Hall.
Born in Kingston, Jamaica, she grew up in rural Ontario, Canada, moving the Toronto in her early 20s. After her time in Toronto, Marva relocated to London, UK and then to the Brecon Beacons in Cymru/Wales with her family, where she currently resides. Over the past 20 years, she has participated in numerous creative cultural events contributing to the literary and arts communities in and around the Hay-on-Wye area. She recently joined the board of Peak Cymru, a rural arts organisation based in the Welsh Black Mountains. Her legacy in the Toronto music scene lives on, and she is seen as a pioneer who paved the way for other women of color to succeed in the male-dominated world of DJing. Currently she builds helps others develop their online spaces and over the past year she has been playing with Traktor DJ software, creating audio experiments for Local 37 arts broadcasts (a project of LUMIN Press).

Debbie Golt - Having begun DJaying in public with Rock Against Racism in 1977, Debbie is still an in demand DJ live and on radio and has played UK wide and internationally - African music, Reggae and other global beats. She is a member of several DJ crews including Foreign Office Club, Hidden Beach UK and Stokey Friday Club and plays out in her own name and as Outerglobe. Currently her main initiative is Vinyl Sisters, a group of rebel womxn DJs, and the Outerglobe Femxle DJ Relay which gives opportunities to womxn new to djaying or who want to try new things. You can hear Debbie regularly on Resonance FM, Threads FM and Brixton Radio and find her at www,mixcloud.com/outerglobe

DJ Gini - Gini Wade is a vinyl DJ, who has been playing out since 1982, mostly around Mid-Wales, where she lives (Llanidloes)Alongside many solo outings she has also plays as part of Dr Funkenstein with 2 male DJs (Les Earthdoctor & DJ Den) Her musical genres include, funk, soul, dancehall & reggae, funky soulful house and breakbeat. Venues: - mostly free parties, small festivals and clubs. She was the only female DJ in the area for a very long time, now there are a few more, but still in the minority. For this reason (pre pandemic) she organised a series of nights called Dames on the Decks, at the Old Mill, Llanidloes.

Angie Dee - Now lives in Newcastle Emlyn after moving from London 20 year ago. Angie has decades of experience with nightclubs/promotions/management and DJ-ing/radio presenting and production. Angie will be bringing her vinyl record collection for your musical delight.

Our evening lineup also features DJ Brenda Rose

Date:  Saturday 11th March 2023
Doors: Forum 5pm  FREE EVENT
Doors: Evening event 7pm £5 

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