LONDON — Abbey Road Studios is opening its doors to women, hoping to inspire future generations of female artists, producers and engineers with a week-long festival of workshops.
The famed London recording studios launched its “Equalise” program on International Women’s Day 2020. This year’s edition is online, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with participants offered classes on technical know-how, interactions with other music makers and guidance from industry leaders virtually.
“Five percent of music producers and engineers are women, which is abominably low,” Abbey Road Studios’ managing director, Isabel Garvey, told Reuters in the venue’s Studio Three, where Pink Floyd’s “Th…
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