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Wireless Festival should have plenty more women performing according to Ivorian Doll, who s one of just four female performers on the line-up announced this year. There are so many songs females have done that have been popping on Tik Tok. Why couldn t they get the chance to perform it? the Queen of Drill told BBC 1Xtra podcast If You Don t Know. I get why girls would feel a type of way because it feels like you re dropping music but what are you doing it for if you re not going to get the recognition?
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By Steve Holden
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image captionPins have played some of the UK s biggest festivals, including the main stage at Reading and Leeds
When some UK festivals recently revealed their line-ups, there were the familiar cries of where are all the women ?
One of those in the spotlight was Kendal Calling in Cumbria, whose first swathe of acts was predominantly male.
Emma Zillmann, the festival s booker, admits the criticism was completely valid . I feel the same way, she says. I have this conversation every year. It s not changing quickly enough.
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image captionKendal Calling put their line-up on Instagram
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A new week-long programme of educational events for women and non-binary people looking to break into the music tech industry will take place at the end of next month.
Titled 7 Days of Sound and organised by Bristol based music tech initiative Saffron, the digital programme will consist of guest-hosted online workshops with each day taking on a separate theme - including Wellbeing, Music for Media and DJs & Radio.
The first specialist hosts confirmed for the workshops include Mercury Prize-nominated composer, Anna Meredith (MBE), as well as DJ Mag’s December cover star and BBC Radio 1 resident, SHERELLE. Ableton certified trainer Anna Lakatos, Maxie Gedge from PRS Foundation and Keychange, and event sustainability manager for Glastonbury Festival and Love Saves The Day, Pauline Bourdon, have also been confirmed.