L.A. Women's Fest

Meet the Cast:

As one of Australia's independent bands, bluehouse have stamped out their own unique style by combining folk flavored pop melodies meshed with heavenly, intricate harmonies and inspired guitar and bass playing, along with sardonic wit and one liners thrown in between songs. The dynamic duo,...

Carlease!

Carlease! AKA Carlease Burke, has been living and performing on the West Coast since relocating from New York in 1985.

While singing and dancing her way through international waters on the Sitmar Cruise Line in 1984, she had the opportunity to get a feel for the "other" coast. That journey...

Shann Carr

"She's witty, she's wonderful, she's the gay man's Wesbian!" raved Elmer Fudd. With 20 years of gay stand up experience at her hip, comedian Shann Carr weaves a storytelling style that makes you feel like you're sitting in your living room with an eccentric friend who has your whole dinner party in stitches.

Since 2000 Shann has been the sole lesbian entertainer on over 20 Atlantis cruises. "That's right 2000 gay men... and me...on a boat!" She knows her gay men and they love her. "My mom was worried sending me out to sea. She consoled herself by guessing that if there were problems, women and children would get off first. I laughed and told her 'On this trip I think twinkies and queens are first. Heck, they're expecting the dyke to fix the ship before it goes down!'"

Carr is also the Executive Producer of GirlMoxie Studios. Since 1990 she has produced a comedy series of live shows, TV and film, all under the title "Out For Laughs." Recently GirlMoxie released Out for Laughs - On the Ocean which is a Docu-Comedy that follows three comedians, a drag queen a piano player and a hypnotist working and frolicking on the gay cruise ship circuit.

She travels from Palm Springs Ca. where she resides with her 2.5 revolving pets.

Given the room in the venue, her grand finale will blow your nipples off when she impersonates people on the dance floor. These include "The couple that's been together too long," "a drag queen" and "the person whom you can tell would be good in bed!"

Jennifer Corday

Whether poignant, pissed off, funny, or heartbroken, Corday will win you over with her charm, her wit and her red-hot intensity! Corday is poised to release her fourth studio album, Superhero, a sticky delicious pop rock record that will break rules, break hearts and be her breakthrough to...

Gail Ann Dorsey

Gail Ann Dorsey's musical journey began as a 70's teenager in West Philadelphia, playing guitar, bass, clarinet, drums, singing and eventually penning her own musical compositions. An ardent creative writer and film buff, Gail also wrote feature-length screenplays to accompany some of her musical...

Mimi Gonzalez

Mimi Gonzalez was once told by her mother, "You're such a beautiful girl, but then you open your mouth and spoil it all." Mimi graduated from high school as the class clown and then received a bachelor's degree in Journalism from Central Michigan University. A move to New York slapped the corporate...

MAKENA

MAKENA (pronounced mah-keh-nah) is the acoustic partnership of two girls born and raised in Hawaii, who took a chance on "the mainland" 5 years ago, and are now beginning to see it pay off.

Their homemade recordings and growing name caught the attention of Grammy-winning producer Daniel Ho...

LaTonya Peoples

LaTonya Peoples was born and raised in Topeka, Kansas. She began taking violin lessons at the age of five. At the age of sixteen she became a certified Suzuki Violin Instructor giving private lessons. Latonya graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Music Therapy from Howard University in May of 1994,...

Patti Rayne

Singer, songwriter, actress: Patti Rayne has been many people in many cities. Originally from Louisiana, Patti has been exploring sound and stage in Houston, New York, Boston and now Los Angeles; In Houston, she was the girl who sang the national anthem for 16,000 in the Summit for more than a...

Sweet Baby J'ai

Sweet Baby J'ai got her start under the guidance of her mentor, the legendary Phil Moore. Shortly thereafter she could be found performing in jazz clubs in Paris. Back home in the U.S., she benefited early on in her career from the support and direction of working with legends, saxophonist Teddy...

Sherry Barnett, Photographer for L.A. Women's Fest

Sherry began taking pictures as soon as she was able to hold her first pint-size Kodak Brownie box camera. OK, not a true "Brownie" - it was turquoise blue. She began to focus on the things around her that caught her eye... beginning with her B&W cat, her friends and anything in her small, but...

Andrea Meyerson, Producer of L.A. Women's Fest

Ten years ago avid cyclist and native Californian Andrea Meyerson placed a classified ad looking for other female Los Angeles-area cyclists. (www.womenonaroll.com) Little did she know that this simple ad would eventually inspire her to leave her corporate career to start one of the largest and most...