Margie Adam
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Margie Adam is one of the pioneers of the Women's Music movement. She was born in Lompoc, California, USA, in 1947.
[edit] Early history
She began playing the piano at an early age. In 1973, while attending the Sacramento Women's Music Festival, she performed during the open mic session and so began her career as a professional musician and composer. Soon, she was involved in the Women's Music movement, a school of music which uses the art form as a means of political and social as well as artistic expression.
[edit] Recordings and tours
Her first album, Margie Adam, was promoted with a fifty city tour which concluded with a performance of her song, "We Shall Go Forth" at the National Women's Conference in Houston. The song quickly became an anthem for the feminist movement and is now part of the Political History archives in the Smithsonian Museum.
Touring through the early eighties at various concerts and fundraisers for feminist candidates and causes, she eventually took what she called a "radical's sabbatical," during which she enhanced her music and singing skills and also counseled people recovering from drug and alcohol dependencies. She returned to writing music in 1990 and went on a national tour in 1992 to support her new album, Another Place. In 1996 she embarked on the Three of Hearts tour with fellow pianists Liz Story and Barbara Higbie. A tour to raise awareness of the service feminist bookstores made to the women's community was conducted in 1998.
Margie Adam continues to compose and perform at various venues across the US and Canada. Some well known names in music have made covers of her songs, including Dusty Springfield and Peter, Paul and Mary. Music from her albums Naked Keys and Soon and Again is used during National Public Radio's All Things Considered news broadcasts. Her song "How Many?" is often played at displays of the NAMES Project AIDS Quilt. Avalon, her latest album, was released in 2000.
