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Home
About Holly
Biography
Timeline
Holly’s Music
Catalog
The Near Sisters
Live at the Freight & Salvage DVD
Singing For Our Lives DVD
2018
Peace Becomes You
We Came to Sing!
Sing to Me the Dream
Show Up
Edge
And Still We Sing
Simply Love
HARP
Lifeline Extended
Crushed
Early Warnings
Cris & Holly
With a Song in My Heart
This Train Still Runs
Musical Highlights
Reissues
Hang In There
Sky Dances
Watch Out!
Speed Of Light
Fire in the Rain
Imagine My Surprise
A Live Album
You Can Know All I Am
Historic
Singer in the Storm
Don’t Hold Back
Singing With You
Journeys
Holly’s Store
Art & Activism
Photos
Tour
Booking
1979
Receives Bay Area Music Award (Bammie) 1979 Best Independent Label Album, Imagine My Surprise. An unusual achievement, this being an out lesbian recording.
1980
Sings with Ronnie Gilbert (of The Weavers) for the first time, as seen in the film Wasn’t That A Time!
1981
Speaks on art and politics at National Mobilization for Survival Conference
1981
Goes on tour to save Womens’ Studies programs
1981
People magazine runs a story on Holly and she becomes, perhaps, the first out lesbian to be interviewed in a popular “supermarket” magazine
1981
Releases Fire in the Rain
1982
Sings at huge June 12th anti-nuke rally, 1 million people gather in Central Park
1982
Creates and performs a show with her sisters called “The Near Sisters” bringing theatre and dance back into Holly’s work
1982
Does 50-city tour: “Be Disarming-Challenge the Nuclear Mentality.” Sings to 200,000 at Artists for Disarmament rally in W. Germany.
1982
Sixth album released, Speed of Light
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