The Athena Festival is a biennial event celebrating women in music. The festival is sponsored by the Department of Music at Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky.
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The Athena Festival is a biennial event celebrating women in music.
01 · What it is
Music
Vocal, percussive, or instrumental sound tradition carried by community performers.
02 · Where & name
United States of America
Placed on record in United States of America.
03 · How it is doing
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04 · Proof & reuse
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Chapter Takeaways
Featured Scholars and Composers1999 Karin Pendle and Barbara Harbach-George 2001 Adrienne Fried Block and Barbara Honn 2003 Judith Tick, Peggy Seeger, and Sara Carina Graf 2005 Nancy B.
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The Athena Festival is a biennial event celebrating women in music.
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The Athena Festival is a biennial event celebrating women in music. The festival is sponsored by the Department of Music at Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky. The Athena festival strives to promote women composers and inspire young women with their musical aspirations
In 2011, The Athena festival helped create the first all women 60x60 mix named after the festival. The 60x60 Athena Mix was curated and coordinated by Sabrina Peña Young.
The theme of the 2013 Athena Festival is "Breaking Barriers—Finding Her Own Voice." 1
Featured Scholars and Composers
1999 Karin Pendle and Barbara Harbach-George
2001 Adrienne Fried Block and Barbara Honn
2003 Judith Tick, Peggy Seeger, and Sara Carina Graf
2005 Nancy B. Reichand and Lori Laitman
2007 Helen Walker-Hill
2009 Judith Lang Zaimont
2013 Gwyneth Walker 1
The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Athena Festival”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1
Athena Festival is biennial music festival in Murray, Kentucky, U.S, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 2
The source record links this tradition to 1 external register, which can be verified through the citation. 2