Diva Docs: The Girls in the Band

Wednesday, November 4, 2015 7:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterThis award-winning documentary recounts the poignant, untold stories of female jazz and big band instrumentalists and their fascinating, groundbreaking, sometimes unglamorous journeys from the late ‘30s to the present day. These incredibly talented women endured sexism, racism and diminished opportunities for decades, yet continued to persevere, inspire and elevate their talents in a field that seldom welcomed them. (2011, 87