Rock Solid Women’s Festival

The Rock Solid Women’s Festival lineup includes Asa Arnold, Blu Detiger, Ki Ki Hawkins, Celisse Henderson, Janice Lowe, Aja Monet, Moor Mother, Kimberly Nichole, Sophia Ramos, Toshi Reagon, Be Steadwell, Mariahdessa Ekere Tallie and more to be announced. Drummer Allison Miller will be musical director, leading the Rock Solid Women’s Band. These women are those who "give you back your experience” as one man said. Hendryx describes the Rock Solid Woman as one who “mines and tends our feminine emotions and refines them with her art. And sometimes for the first time, because she expressed the essence of them she makes it possible for you to recognize and know them. And once you know, you just might be able to begin to change them. Female singers are like 'effigies,' they provide us with a ‘surrogate for the original’ or what’s missing.” In kind, Hendryx invokes the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements with this festival.