The Union Programming Council’s Music and Mayhem Committee will present the “Women Rock!” concert March 3 at 7 p.m. in the LSU Union Cotillion Ballroom. The concert is free and will showcase the talents of four Louisiana artists.
The acts performing include Kristen Diable, Maime Porter, Lindsay Spurlock and Elysian Fieldz.
“We realized that nine times out of 10, the concerts brought to the Union were men,” said Emilia Gilbert, Union Program Coordinator and Music and Mayhem adviser. “We wanted to showcase the female talent as well.”
The show will feature musically and racially diverse acts to go along with the end of Black History Month and the beginning of Women’s History Month.
Gilbert said this is not a feminist concert like the all-women “Lilith Fair” of the late 1990s, it is just a free concert highlighting local talent.
“We were inspired by an article in The Legacy showcasing local female musicians,” said J.W. Washington, president of the Music and Mayhem Committee and a mass communication sophomore.
Washington said the student committee selected the artists after reading about them and listening to their music.
Kristin Diable, a 20-year-old Baton Rouge native, has had three independent albums released in the past three years. According to her Web site www.kristindiable.com, her acoustic rock sound has garnered attention from colleges and some of her music was used on the MTV show “Undressed.”
Lindsay Spurlock is also well known locally for her singer/songwriter abilities in her group, the Lindsay Rae Spurlock Band and another local band, Lucid Soule.
The concert will also feature the blues styling of Maime Porter. A Southern alumna, she and her husband Smokehouse Porter are well known nationally with their most recent CD, “King of the Gut Bucket Blues.”
Rounding out the show is Elysian Fieldz, an R&B group comprised of sisters Arin and Alexis Jones of New Orleans.
“There is something for everyone at this concert,” Washington said. “We just want people to come out and have a good time.”