Thu 3/12 @ 6:30PM
The Rock Hall Movie Club evenings, which offer a chance to schmooze for a bit and then see a film in the 4th floor Foster Theater, screen a variety of films about musicians from various eras. And this week, they’ll focus on a groundbreaking band — Fanny, the first all-woman band to release a major label record when they released their self-titled debut in 1970.
The band featured a pair of Filipina sisters, June and Jean Millington (guitar and bass respectively), living in California, who began playing in bands as high schoolers in the 60s. By the time they released that album (and played a show at Public Hall in Cleveland), they add Alice de Buhr on drums and Nickey Barclay on keyboards. Later June Millington was part of the “womyn’s music” scene around Olivia Records, performing as a soloist and even producing an album for Holly Near; she has continued to play music, long after the breakup of Fanny in 1975. They left behind a creditable musical footprint of five major label albums.
The Millington sisters and their later drummer Brie Howard reunited the band to release Fanny Walked the Earth in 2018, and that album provided the basis for the 2021 film Fanny: The Right to Rock, directed by Bobbi Jo Hart, as the band members tell their own story, accompanied by perido photos by Linda Wolf, who extensively documented the band back in the day.
Get tickets to the screening here.
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