Thu, Sep 11
|Ceres Gallery
Songs She Wrote: 40 Hits by Pioneering Women of Popular Music
Author talk with music featuring Michael Garber with performers Miss Maybell and Charlie Judkins at the feminist nonprofit Ceres Gallery
Time & Location
Sep 11, 2025, 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Ceres Gallery, 547 W 27th St #201, New York, NY 10001, USA
About the event
Michael G. Garber, author of Songs She Wrote: Forty Hits by Pioneering Women of Popular Music, illuminates the history of women who created the Great American Songbook in the musical worlds of Tin Pan Alley, ragtime, jazz, Broadway, and Hollywood.
In the nonprofit feminist Ceres Gallery, surrounded by the scintillating artworks of Marcie Bernstein and Carlyle Upson, Michael will celebrate women songwriters who laid the foundations for American popular music during the jazz decades.
Songs She Wrote: 40 Hits by Pioneering Women of Popular Music celebrates women’s contributions to popular music by looking at dozens of well-known figures like Billie Holiday, Peggy Lee, and Dorothy Parker as well as unearthing more unknown women who made major contributions. In this talk and his book, Michael Garber explores the style and artistry of female songwriters, lyricists, and composers in the first half of the twentieth century and provides intriguing backstories and analysis of forty hits. Learn about Maria Grever (“What a Difference a Day Makes”) who was the first female Mexican composer to achieve international acclaim and the fascinating story of African American lyricist Lucy Fletcher (“Sugar Blues”), among many others in this book.