Womyn Making Waves has been on WEFT practically as long as WEFT has been on the air (15 years as of 9/96). While we don't exactly know who started it, we do know that Glenda Diodene carried it for a good chunk of time back at the beginning. Other airshifters who have produced WMW in the past include Winnie Fink, Jennifer Novak, Karen Klebbe, Cherie Lyn, Beck Hyatt, Lisa Kuhns, and more recently Tracey Rose. Since Karen Hellyer has taken on programming for the show (starting in September of 1995), some have noticed a slight change in the format. The music she plays ranges from "way-back" artists including wave-making women like Billy Holiday, Etta James, Anita O'Day, Lesley Gore, as well as other "straight" women who faced tough music careers in a profession owned, operated and dominated by men, to the most current selection of women/womyn artists like Tribe 8, Ferron, Alix Dobkin, Girls in the Nose, and more.

To this day, the industry-at-large still treats women as secondary musicians and primary sex objects. WMW transcends the confines of mainstream music by providing female musicians with the airplay and attention they deserve, while celebrating diversity amongst the genre some refer to as "womyns music." Listeners will also hear weird, obscure, and otherwise unrecognized music by well-known artists as well as amazing music by unrecognized women, or womyn, or wombon, or wimmin. The hours fill up with an eclectic blend of tunes sure to enlighten those who listen.

Tune into Womyn Making Waves if you want to hear music by, for, and about women... of all types... The emphasis is on MUSIC by women of power and influence, be them lesbians, bi-sexuals, heterosexuals, or anyone else....

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