The Five Percent

Maya Finlay is a sound engineer that works in live sound, as well as in the studio recording, editing, mixing and producing. Maya works both freelance and for the SFJAZZ Center as well as Dolby Laboratories and recently has started touring with Rosanne Cash as her Monitor Engineer. She has been working in professional audio...

Petra Randewijk is an independent sound engineer based in The Netherlands. Petra has been working in audio for 21 years, and she is currently on tour with Imogen Heap as the FOH Engineer.

Helen McCookerybook / Dr. Helen Reddington a musician in the British Punk movement to academic and teacher, to a solo musician, author, and filmmaker. Helen is an ambassador for telling women’s stories.

Ethnomusicology is the study of the social and societal sources of music and is heavily tied with anthropology and the study of folklore. Through this human-centric approach, researchers learn about the ‘why’ of music and how emotions are expressed in different communities.

Hyasynth House is a Nashville-based electronic music collective for female, trans and non-binary creatives founded in 2018 by Jess Chambers and Eve Maret.

Lucy J Mitchell is a freelance Sound Editor and Dubbing Mixer for TV, Film and Computer Games living on the Surrey-London border. Lucy has been working in the Audio Post Production industry for ten years and works on all genres and all areas of sound editorial.

Annette Guilfoyle is a freelance monitor engineer. She has been working in the industry for over 23 years and is currently on tour as the monitor engineer for Florence and The Machine.

Delia was a musical pioneer, a unique lady with a sharp sense of humour, humility and an unbridled passion for creating.  The story of her contribution to the world has not taken up space as prominently as it should.

Helen Oakley Dance (born Helen Oakley) was the earliest female jazz record producer (and perhaps the earliest known female record producer of any genre). She was instrumental in the early days of jazz in America - writing about it, producing it (including many recordings with Duke Ellington), promoting it, and connecting artists with each other.