Receives Bay Area Music Award (Bammie) 1979 Best Independent Label Album, Imagine My Surprise. An unusual achievement, this being an out lesbian recording.
Sings with Ronnie Gilbert (of The Weavers) for the first time, as seen in the film Wasn’t That A Time!
Speaks on art and politics at National Mobilization for Survival Conference
Goes on tour to save Womens’ Studies programs
People magazine runs a story on Holly and she becomes, perhaps, the first out lesbian to be interviewed in a popular “supermarket” magazine
Releases Fire in the Rain
Sings at huge June 12th anti-nuke rally, 1 million people gather in Central Park
Creates and performs a show with her sisters called “The Near Sisters” bringing theatre and dance back into Holly’s work
Does 50-city tour: “Be Disarming-Challenge the Nuclear Mentality.” Sings to 200,000 at Artists for Disarmament rally in W. Germany.
Sixth album released, Speed of Light
