Once a novelty, women saxophone players have been claiming center stage in the last twenty years. Virginia Mayhew, Idit Shner, Clair Daly and Christine Jensen are among the most notable artists in ...

Lily Wilde will join on vocals. Opening will be Portlander Hailey Niswanger, another female sax player, who begins her studies in mid-August at Berklee College of Music in Boston. Niswanger was ...

It is larger and lower-pitched than the tenor saxophone. There are not many female baritone saxophone players, but women’s fear of playing a stereotypically male-dominated instrument is being ...

The list tends to be very short. Step forward, then, Abi Harding, the best-known female sax player since… Lisa Simpson? Not only is she the glamorous focal point of the Zutons, but it’s her ...

She might be the most stylishly-dressed person in the room, often clad in gold from head to toe to match her trusted saxophone. But the five time Grammy-nominated Lakecia Benjamin is certainly the ...

it’s a small community,” the saxophone world. And they said “You two should look up some other players in Portland and if you want to do an all-female thing, go find some people.” ...