Showing posts with label Phoebe Legere's Monad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Phoebe Legere's Monad. Show all posts
Thursday, December 28, 2023
Tuesday, November 1, 2022
Celebrate MONADVember Dedicated To The Greatest & Most Original Band of All Time: Phoebe Legere's MONAD
Please join us as we celebrate MONADVember, an entire month dedicated to honoring the greatest and most original rock band of all time: Phoebe Legere's Monad.
This blog is devoted to Phoebe and her extraordinarily artistic band that revolutionized music and gave birth to what we now know as the "East Village Scene."
Quickly achieving status as a unique and legendary original rock group, Monad marked high-powered milestones including touring with David Bowie, being featured in several major films and recording Legere’s original tunes including ‘Marilyn’ that soared to the top of the college radio charts.
Monad also performed for Phoebe’s “Game Show” that drew standing room only crowds in downtown venues long before the genre became popular.
Phoebe's Monad created opportunities for women in rock. The group developed theatrical events that incorporated engineered sets & dazzling costumes from reclaimed materials in advance of the eco movement.
The sets, the costumes, the social platform, the magic: MONADVember!
The band played every club on the superhot circuit from Limelight to CBGBs and 8BC to Carnegie Hall. Monad played the opening night at famed Pyramid Club.
Thank you, Phoebe, for a remarkable life experience and for the forever to be treasured musical memories!
How will you celebrate MONADVember? We are grateful to Phoebe for the magical artistic moments and the theatrical gems and gold. Thank you for blazing the path for young girls and women to follow. You made their journey far easier. We salute you & we love you!
Friday, January 29, 2021
Phoebe Legere's MONAD MEMBER, Sue Rakowski, RECEIVES ACKER AWARD FOR MUSIC
The Acker Award, named for writer Kathy Acker, acknowledges art and service to the New York Art and Music Avant Garde. In Sue's words:
"I am honored to receive an Acker Award 2020 for my interdisciplinary music/art/theater work in the MONAD band.
"Monad, an activist art collective, was founded by Phoebe Legere. We played music that blurred the lines between contemporary classical music, electronic dance music, art and rock n roll!
"We called it Total Art Synthesis: Performance art, painting, progressive politics, feminism and LGBTQ pride amplified our multi-format happenings. Monad was multi-racial. Our up-front commitment to diversity and inclusion made us a target but we didn’t care. I strummed my guitar for the cause of truth and justice and I can proudly say we have never backed down!
"Our song 'Marilyn' reached the top of the college charts. It was the celebration of female Goddesshood. 'Marilyn' was a song about kissing a woman 20 years beore it was 'OK to be gay.' We argued and demonstrated for Social Justice long before it was 'cool.'
"We took arrows in our backs, but the real Downtown Visionaries like Clayton Patterson, Arleen Schloss, Bobby Bradley, Ann Kathrin (AK), Quentin Crisp, Ethyl Eichelberger, Ivan Steiger Galietti, Cornelius Conboy, Jack Smith, Crystal Field, Ela Troyano, Helen Lang, Fenton Bailey, Winnie Berrios, Belle McIntyre, Carmelita Tropicana Cissy Clagett, Adam Sands, Kenneth Parks, Barnaby Ruhe, Lady Bunny, Michael Gross, Penny Arcade, Ann Magnuson, and Derek Ridgers supported us.
"We were on the bill the first night the Pyramid opened and we were the headliners for the first Pyramid New Year’s Eve. (What a night!)
"Monad was a magic carpet for us. Zillion thanks to Phoebe Legere for inviting me on the journey; I’ve met Michael Jackson, Billy Joel, Joni Mitchell, Allen Ginsberg, Larry Rivers, Peter Beard, and Patti Smith, as well as opening for David Bowie. It has been a remarkable, cutting-edge ride.
"When I met David Bowie backstage he said: ‘You and Phoebe are the most amazing women I’ve ever met. I believe in women supporting women!’
(Photo by Derek Ridgers)
"Today, MONAD works as an arts education advocate for children. Our 501(c)3 nonprofit, Foundation for New American Art , carries on the mission of nurturing the visionary artists of tomorrow. Please consider making a small 100% tax deductible donation here: http://foundationfornewamericanart.org/donate
"Your generous support of our programs will help give form to the unsung nobility in underserved children in low-income communities. Thank you," says Sue Rakowski.
Color Photo: Jo-Anne Atkinson
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
PHOEBE LEGERE's ORIGINAL ROCK BAND: MONAD
There were boy bands...there were girls who sang in bands... but Phoebe Legere's MONAD was the first multi-racialðnic group featuring both men and women who played music together as a unit on equal footing.
The mission was not diversity--Phoebe's plan just worked out that way--and everything flowed in harmony. This groundbreaking group inspired the wheel to turn in a revolutionary way and made rock music what it is today. Any chick who plays in a band today owes a huge debt of gratitude to Phoebe Legere.
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
cultur mag
More press from Phoebe's recent Euro-Tour
http://culturmag.de/musik/interview-mit-phoebe-legere/62548
The headline says: "Modern Democracy is an invention of Indian women." Brilliantly translated by Phoebe's long-time pal, Ann Kathrin.
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