Images of Women concert/lecture

A. These topics and more are sung about in IMAGES OF WOMEN, an informative, entertaining exploration of views of women as expressed in traditional Anglo-American and Afro-American folksong. After a brief discussion of the oral folk process, Robin examines basic issues of love and fidelity, loyalty and desertion, subservience and independence in a wide variety of traditional music sung and played on guitar and banjo.

Robin is a seasoned performer on the college market and has a broad background in music and folklore. She studied guitar, banjo and folklore at the Guitar Workshop in Roslyn, NY, later becoming a teacher at the same school. For two summers she attended Pinewoods Folk Music Camp, run by the English Country Song & Dance Society. Robin earned a B.A. in Music from SUNY-Stony Brook, studying for a year at Trinity College of Music and King's College in London. While at Stony Brook, she studied under and worked as an assistant to famed folk performer/musicology professor Hedy West (composer of "500 Miles") cataloguing and indexing her extensive collection of American folk music. Robin's thesis was on Women in Traditional British and American Folksong.

Robin has combined her love of folk music with her interest in women's issues to create an entertaining, educational and enlightening experience. Robin has brought this program to campuses all over the country in many different formats: as a lecture, an in-class presentation, a noontime show, an evening concert, even outdoors for Springfest. And now, Robin has released a CD of music from this program.