This weekend is the Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. The festival, which is the largest of its kind, has always brought attention to and highlighted today's top female jazz musicians. But this is all to change next year.
It was recently announced that this will be the last year of female-only programming, with the Kennedy Center citing that the emphasis on women was too limiting.
Have we reached a level of equality in jazz that the festival has lost its necessity? Festival host Dee Dee Bridgewater is not so sure. She is quoted in the Washington Post, "I don’t understand where that is coming from. I don’t see the need to
move away from it, and I know plenty of women who need that space to
show their music."
What are your thoughts? Read the full article in the Washington Post here.
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