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There are now two great reasons for staying in Bloomington/Normal this summer: expanded summer school courses and The National Women’s Music Festival, which will be held on the Illinois State University campus on July 6-9, 2006. The event is the oldest running women’s festival in North America, which attracts approximately 3,000 attendees annually. The festival features twenty to thirty musical artists—almost all of which are women performers or women-fronted bands—from all musical genres who will perform on three to four stages. In addition to music, the festival features theatre performances, dances, drum circles, workshops, and vendors from all over the country. The National Women’s Music Festival’s first home was at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana in 1974. Since then it has been hosted at the Indiana University and Ball State University. The event is produced by the non-profit organization Women In the Arts, Inc. and should be a major summer happening on the Illinois State campus.

For more information on attending and/or performing at the National Women’s Music Festival visit the Women In the Arts, Inc. website at http://waionline.org/about.html

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