Truth be told, having the majority of tracks on this month’s list be by women wasn’t intentional. March typically does come around with a flurry of campaigns and special events celebrating Women’s Month. We’re all on a long journey that needs to go beyond just celebrating women and addressing the numerous obstacles and barriers that women constantly overcome to be heard and recognized. Ask a female musician, and they’d have their own stories to share.
This time, this specific regular roundup of Filipino music chooses not to determine March’s list based on gender. Each installment of this series ends up highlighting interesting tracks within a specific period by being monthly anyway, but great music by women is being released all year round.
Dear listener, whatever month it is, you’re more than welcome to make a tracklist that highlights your own narrative of women in music through songs that you like. Make Spotify playlists, dig through crates, watch gigs, scour Bandcamp and Soundcloud, record mixtapes, write about the music that means something to you. Search far and wide. Share what you find, and seek out others’ own versions of how music made by women has shaped us as a whole, and the different movements happening all at once. Isn’t that the sheer joy of collectively experiencing music, after all?
That being said, here are some tracks to lend your ears to.
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