Alix Dobkin
Biography

Alix Dobkin is a folk singer, educator, and writer from Woodstock, New York. She released the first album to give voice to the new Women's and Lesbian music of the 1970's . She is described by many as "exemplifying the tradition of Woodie Guthrie and Pete Seeger," giving voice and inspiration to political and social movement over many decades.

Alix Dobkin, raised in Philadelphia, was a guitar-teenager in the 1950's. Immediately after graduating from the Tyler School of Fine Arts, Alix headed east to NYC's world-famous Gaslight Cafe, and from that rich, heady, heart of Greenwich Village launched her full-time, professional folk singing career in the early '60's.

Focusing during the first decade on an international and contemporary/ protest repertory, she came out as a lesbian in 1972 and turned to writing and singing for women in general and to building Lesbian Culture in particular.

Over the last 25 years, Dobkin has travelled to hundreds of women's communities in the USA and abroad. 

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