The bulk of this collection contains correspondence, financial records and printed ephemera documenting the activities of Once In A Blue Moon Productions, a production company and women's collective located in Los Angeles, California. The materials document Blue Moon's activities and operations from 1977 to 1980. Information about musicians who collaborated with Blue Moon--Woody Simmons, Joanna Cazden, Willie Tyson, Julie James, and Alix Dobkin--is included in the form of typed biographies, clippings, and correspondence.

Once In A Blue Moon Productions was founded in 1977 by a group of women--Patt Riese, Susan Rowe, Carol Leamy, Barbara Allen and Lesley Mallgraves--who had worked together on the Women On Wheels L.A. series of 1977.

0.4 linear foot (1 archival carton).

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