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GIRLSCHOOL 2019

 GIRLSCHOOL is a Celebration of Females Challenging the Status Quo.

 

With a production crew of all-women sound engineers, production designers, and lighting designers GIRLSCHOOL 2018 Festival featured; Shirley Manson + The Girlschool Choir, Jay Som, Kristin Kontrol + Special Guests, Moon Honey, Amber Coffman, Boyfriend, FAARROW, Lauren Ruth Ward, Marian Mereba, Soccer Mommy, Low Leaf, Akua, Pinky Pinky, A.W., Mary Lattimore, Nick + Navi, Drum & Lace, Desi Mo, Chelsea Jade, and Polartropica. DJ sets by Zuri Adia, Rituals of Mine, and Kim + The Created.

GIRLSCHOOL 2019 will take place on Feb. 1 – 2 in Los Angeles (venue tba). The festival will showcase over 20 bands, across two stages. Proceeds will benefit a girl-positive 501(c)3.

GIRLSCHOOL and SoundGirls mission is to create opportunities for women in the music industry.  We invite SoundGirls to be involved – all positions are volunteer only.

If you would like to be involved – please apply here  –

We look forward to working with Anna and GIRLSCHOOL to make this Festival a success. You can view photos from GIRLSCHOOL 2017 here GIRLSCHOOL – Three days of music and workshops in Los Angeles

 

GIRLSCHOOL is a music festival that celebrates women-identified-fronted bands and women artists.

GIRLSCHOOL New York 2018

With a production crew of all-women sound engineers, production managers, and lighting designers GIRLSCHOOL challenges the status quo.

GIRLSCHOOL is a music festival and creative community-based in Los Angeles, whose mission is to celebrate, connect, and lift women-identified artists, leaders, and voices. GIRLSCHOOL LA 2018 is where the viral video of Fiona Apple performing alongside Shirley Manson in a homemade “KNEEL, PORTNOW” shirt took place.

GIRLSCHOOL is coming to New York City. October 6-7 and will take place at, Industry City Courtyard 1/2 (274 36th Street) in Brooklyn. Founded by Anna Bulbrook in response to how few women she saw onstage in the alternative rock and festival worlds, GIRLSCHOOL has grown into a vibrant network of women-identified artists, leaders, and voices who have formed an empowering and visible community for one another while supporting women and girls.

SoundGirls supports GIRLSCHOOL and has staffed the last two Los Angeles festivals with women in production roles and sound engineering. SoundGirls has also worked with GIRLSCHOOL to provide women just starting out the opportunity to work alongside veterans in internship roles at the festival.

SoundGirls will once again be staffing and providing internship opportunties for GIRLSCHOOL New York.

If you would like to be involved – please email soundgirls@soundgirls.org with GIRLSCHOOL NY in the subject line and provide a cover letter, resume, and position you would like to apply for. We look forward to working with Anna and GIRLSCHOOL to make this Festival a success.

 

 

 

 

GIRLSCHOOL 2018

 GIRLSCHOOL is a Celebration of Women Challenging the Status Quo.

 

A few years ago Anna Bullbrook, (Airborne Toxic Event and The Bulls) volunteered at the Los Angeles Girls Rock Camp and had a “ mind-bending experience of seeing women use rock’n’roll to encourage young girls to take risks, grow, and be more themselves in a really utopic, positive, and very thoughtful all-female environment. The experience changed my brain. The relief of connecting to a community of positive and pro-active musical women hit me like a wave”. Once Anna got a taste of what she calls “Utopia” she knew she had to do something to keep that feeling of community alive and continue to grow it, and so she started GIRLSCHOOL (This is why SoundGirls was founded).

GIRLSCHOOL is a music festival that celebrates women-identified-fronted bands and women artists. After spending a decade as a “sideman” in the alternative rock world, where you don’t see a lot of other women around—onstage or on your crew—I started to miss and crave the camaraderie of women. I mean, growing up in classical land, I saw women players everywhere and had a million girlfriends who also played instruments. It wasn’t this segregated thing.

With GIRLSCHOOL 2017 Anna did create a weekend of “Utopia.”

With a production crew of all-women sound engineers, production designers, and lighting designers GIRLSCHOOL 2017 Festival featured; Chelsea Wolfe, The Bird and the Bee, Francisca Valenzuela (acoustic), Deap Vally, The Regrettes, Rituals of Mine, Summer Twins, Vox, Luna Shadows, KONA, Boyfriend, Pearl Charles, The Wild Reeds, Winter, Liphemra, Trace, Caroline Smith, Kid Wave, Starcrawler, Soto Voce, and DJ sets from Tamaryn, Mereki’s Club House, Bleached, Honey Power, Val Fleury, Linafornia, and Play Like A Girl.

The festival also included afternoon panels discussions and workshops with; Ruidosa, SoundGirls, Music for Pictures (Alicen Schneider, NBCUniversal), Own Your Own Voice (Kiran Gandhi), Women in Media (Andrea Domanick, Noisey), Women in Music (Jasmine Lywen-Dill, GIRLSCHOOL Co-Founder/WBR), Queer & Trans* Women Discussion on Sexualization and Media (Dannielle Owens-Reid), Radical Aliveness (Jennifer Huang), Ableton Controllerism (Laura “Alluxe” Escudé), Intersectional Feminism in Music (Mukta Mohan, MTV/KXLU), and Rock’n’Roll Camp for Girls LA.

Anna has big plans for GIRLSCHOOL in 2018 with plans to bring the festival to other cities (stay tuned) and providing year-round programming. SoundGirls had such a great time being involved with GIRLSCHOOL last year, and we are eagerly looking forward to 2018. Check out last year’s scene report.

Anna Bulbrook’s GIRLSCHOOL

 GIRLSCHOOL is a celebration of women challenging the status quo.

 

 

Anna Bulbrook has been playing music her entire life. She is a trained classical violinist and is best known for her work with The Airborne Toxic Event. She has recently started her own project The Bulls, with Marc Sallis, bass player for The Duke Spirit. The Bulls is Anna’s outlet for her own songwriting and vision.

Two years ago Anna volunteered at the Los Angeles Girls Rock Camp and says she had a “ mind-bending experience of seeing women use rock’n’roll to encourage young girls to take risks, grow, and be more themselves in a really utopic, positive, and very thoughtful all-female environment. The experience changed my brain. The relief of connecting to a community of positive and pro-active musical women hit me like a wave”. Once Anna got a taste of what she calls “Utopia” she knew she had to do something to keep that feeling of community alive and continue to grow it. (This is exactly how and why SoundGirls.Org was started). So she started GIRLSCHOOL.8965_764298326969973_1887516619067237208_n

GIRLSCHOOL is a music festival that celebrates women-identified-fronted bands and women artists. After spending a decade as a “sideman” in the alternative rock world, where you really don’t see a lot of other women around—onstage or on your crew—I started to really miss and crave the camaraderie of women. I mean, growing up in classical land, I saw women players everywhere and had a million girlfriends who also played instruments. It wasn’t this segregated thing.

SoundGirls recently talked to Anna about Life on the Road and GIRLSCHOOL 2017.

GIRLSCHOOL is expanding this year–what is in store for this year’s festival?

First, we have some REALLY exciting headliners that I can’t announce. It’s just going to be a freaking amazing lineup. Second, we are adding a lot more educational and community programming that will doing the boots-on-the-ground work of literally creating opportunities for women from across the music industry to meet, connect, learn, and maybe get inspired to try something new: panel discussions, mentoring events, informative talks, Q&As. That kind of thing.

What are your long-term goals?

I’d like to grow Girlschool to be a traveling or pop-up festival around the world. I’d like to build the platform to celebrate and connect and share the work of more and more amazing women from across the music industry. And I’d like to hear from women who are in music or are interested in music to hear what would be most helpful to or inspiring for, YOU, so Girlschool can try to answer those needs as we go forward.

More on Anna and GIRLSCHOOL

Anna Bulbrook: On GIRLSCHOOL’s Mission of Empowerment

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