Press
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2022
NEW PARTNERSHIP EVENT PRESS RELEASE
Rock & Rage Women’s Rights Weekend August 27th – August 28th 2022 Saturday & Sunday
PARTNER CONTACT INFORMATION:
EVENT: Sat. August 27, 2022 4pm-9pm
Rage 4 Rights – Rise Up For Abortion Rights Los Angeles Benefit Concert & Rally
Victoria Eggers
626.533.8372
vegger@live.com
Location: Lokels Only 2010 E 7th St Suite B, Los Angeles
Ticket: $15
EVENT: Sun. August 28, 2022 1pm-10pm
Rock & Rouge Women’s Music Festival & beyond Los Angeles
Lani Ramos, Producer
310.285.3900 office
marketing@therockandrouge.com
Location: Club Bahia 1130 Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles
Ticket: $15 (EventBrite Advance) $20 door Adults $15 12- 17 years 12 and under Free
RELEASE DATE:
August 16, 2022
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ROCK & RAGE WOMEN’S RIGHTS WEEKEND
Rage 4 Rights and Rock & Rouge Women’s Music Festival Los Angeles
PARTNER-UP FOR A WEEKEND OF WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT!
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, August 2022 Introducing the Rock & Rage Women’s Rights Event Weekend brought to you by Rage 4 Rights and Rock & Rouge Women’s Music Festival Los Angeles on August 27th & 28th weekend. The special event is showcasing two days full of music, empowering speakers, and organizations along with food, beverage, and community FUN. Rage 4 Rights Rally & Benefit Concert is Sunday August 27th, 2022 at Lokel’s Only 2010 E 7th St Suite B, Los Angeles from 4pm – 9pm, and continuing our women’s empowerment is Rock & Rouge Women’s Music Festival & Beyond Los Angeles at Club Bahia 1130 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, Sunday August 28th from 1pm-10pm. This is a call to service and action: Empower. Represent. Present! Come out wear green in support of our city’s women, our nation’s women, our planet’s women and our movement. By supporting women’s rights you support all human rights and freedoms. It’ll be an empowering weekend!!
RAGE FOR RIGHTS – BENEFIT CONCERT & RALLY
We demand legal Abortion Nation Wide
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, August 2022 – Introducing, Rage 4 Rights Rally & Benefit Concert Los Angeles. This is the first special event in a call to action to support the over-turning of Roe vs. Wade. We won’t go back! So like our mothers and grandmother and great-grandmothers dating back to 1838, we set forth this call to action through activism. Rage 4 Rights Rally & Benefit Concert will help pay for the expenses on (1) activist’s arrest. Surly there will be others and all because we’re standing up against this violation of our right to choose what’s best for our bodies and our lives! Our Benefit Concert & fair will showcase many women in the local art scene, musicians and speakers at our event, as well as, the Rock & Rouge event where we are attending with speakers and 3 tabling stations. Rage 4 Rights Rally & Benefit Concert is on Saturday, August 27th , at Lokels Only 2010 E 7th St Suite B, Los Angeles. Non-violent civil disobedience is vital to this movement & we must get in the streets and stay in the streets to fight for our rights! There is no business as usual while a war is being waged against people’s birthing bodies, especially women and young girls. We must unite all who can be UNITED!
It is unconscionable NOT to act together in powerful resistance while a fundamental right of half of humanity is being ripped away. SILENCE IS COMPLICITY! WE MUST ACT NOW!! WE WON’T GO BACK!!!
The rally starts at 4 pm and venue doors open 5:30 pm. The event features a powerful line-up of over 12 artists, which include, musicians and poets with speakers’ in-between. Line-up:
Finally Livin’ – Military Veteran Band
Lani Ramos – singer/producer Rock & Rouge
Tella
Kill My Coquette
Brooke -The Poet
Laviticux
Don Data
Makomyers
SavoThaMan
Yung Cross
Junior.HG
LaHenny
For advanced information https://www.gofundme.com/f/rage-4-rights-rally-benefit-concert?utm_medium=email&utm_source=product&utm_campaign=p_email%2B2300-co-team-welcome
For Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights: https://riseup4abortionrights.org/
Brought to you by:
Vets Rise 4 Roe,
Lokel’s Only
The Royal Family
Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights
ROCK & ROUGE WOMEN’S MUSIC FESTIVAL & BEYOND LOS ANGELES
A Women’s Empowerment Special Event at Club Bahia
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, August 2022 – Introducing, the Rock & Rouge Women’s Music Festival & beyond Los Angeles. This is the first L.A. Rock & Rouge special event showcasing women’s empowerment thru activism in music, food, speaking and organizing. The Rock & Rouge Music Festival will be Sunday August 28th, 2022, at Club Bahia 1130 Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90012. Women’s rights are at stake again with the overturning of Roe vs. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court. So, we must support and empower women organizations fighting for women’s rights and the inclusivity of all others oppressed by the judgments of race, creed, color, socioeconomic status, and now, gender. We empower through supporting marches, organizations, music, spoken word, speakers and most of all education. The Rock & Rouge Women’s Music Festival Los Angeles is Sunday event at Club Bahia that features a line-up of empowering women segments throughout the afternoon and into the evening. The program includes an indoor stage with live music, cash bar and food service surrounded by women organizations, speakers, and featuring emcee, JUAY:
Main Stage
Angel Peaches & Los Combi Darks – 9p-10p Cumbia
Collectivo Sabinas – 8p-9p Ska Punk
Big Pearl – 7p-8p Rock
Scarlet & the fever – 6p-7p Soul Reg
Azul quetzal – 5p-6p Reggae
Flor – 4p-5p TRAP R&B
Hell Rose – 3p – 4p Punk
DJ New Wave Cholas – 1p-8p
The Company BIG PEARL MUSIC, LLC
The Rock & Rouge Women’s Music Festival Los Angeles is a branch of the New Orleans, Louisiana Festival, the Rock & Rouge Women’s Music & Food Festival & beyond founded by musician/actress/producer, Lani Ramos in 2017. Rock & Rouge™ is a registered trademark with the Unites States Patent & Trademark office established in 2022. A proclamation was given to the Rock & Rouge for its outstanding work and city-wide impact by the City of New Orleans City Council’s office in New Orleans 2020. Big Pearl Music, LLC (BPM) is a registered company in the State of California Business Tax Office and the company overseeing the event. BPM was established in New Orleans, Louisiana, 2009. Big Pearl Music, LLC is the company producing the Rock & Rouge Music Festival & beyond Los Angeles.
For advanced tickets please visit:https://therockandrougewomensmusicfestivallosangeles.eventbrite.com
For reserved indoor seating:
tickets@therockandrouge.com
more information:
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT INFORMATION:
BIG PEARL MUSIC, LLC
Lani Ramos, Producer
310.285.3900 office
marketing@therockandrouge.com
Pre-Sale tickets: $15
RELEASE DATE:
August 8, 2022
ROCK & ROUGE WOMEN’S MUSIC FESTIVAL & BEYOND
LOS ANGELES
A Women’s Empowerment Special Event
at Club Bahia
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, August 2022 – Introducing the Rock & Rouge Women’s Music Festival & beyond Los Angeles. This is the first L.A. Rock & Rouge special event showcasing women’s empowerment thru activism in music, food, speaking and organizing. The Rock & Rouge Music Festival will be Sunday August 28th, 2022, at Club Bahia 1130 Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90012. Women’s rights are at stake again with the overturning of Roe vs, Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court. So, we must support and empower women organizations fighting for women’s rights and the inclusivity of all others oppressed by the judgements of race, creed, color, socioeconomic status, and now, gender. We empower through supporting marches, organizations, music, spoken word, speakers and most of all education.
The Rock & Rouge Women’s Music Festival Los Angeles is a one-day event at Club Bahia that features a line-up of empowering women segments throughout the afternoon and into the evening. The program includes an indoor stage with live music, speakers, cash bar and food service. 2-outdoor parking lots with staging areas for women DJs, women business vendors in beauty, fashion, and lite bites surrounded by women organizations, speakers, and featuring emcee, JUAY:
Main Stage
Sonora explosive – 9pm-10pm cumbia
Collectivo Sabinas – 8pm-9pm Ska punk
Big Pearl – 7pm-8pm Rock
Scarlet & the fever – 6pm-7pm Soul Reg
Azul quetzal – 5pm-6pm Reggae
Flor – 4pm-5pm TRAP R&B
Hell Rose – 3pm – 4pm Punk
DJ New Wave Cholas – 1pm -8pm
The Company BIG PEARL MUSIC, LLC
The Rock & Rouge Women’s Music Festival Los Angeles is a branch of the New Orleans, Louisiana Festival, the Rock & Rouge Women’s Music & Food Festival & beyond founded by musician/actress/producer, Lani Ramos in 2017. Rock & Rouge™ is a registered trademark with the Unites States Patent & Trademark office established in 2022. A proclamation was given to the Rock & Rouge for its outstanding work and city-wide impact by the City of New Orleans City Council’s office in New Orleans 2020. Big Pearl Music, LLC (BPM) is a registered company in the State of California Business Tax Office and the company overseeing the event. BPM was established in New Orleans, Louisiana, 2009. Big Pearl Music, LLC is the company producing the Rock & Rouge Music Festival & beyond Los Angeles.
For advanced tickets please visit: https://therockandrougewomensmusicfestivallosangeles.eventbrite.com
For reserved indoor seating:
tickets@therockandrouge.com
more information:
www.therockandrouge.com
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2020
March 16, 2020, 1:00p
The Rock & Rouge receives a Proclamation from the City of New Orleans for its community services.
The presentation has been postponed due to Covid-19.
February 5, 2020, 5:00 p.m.
The Rock & Rouge Foundation is awarded a grant from the City of New Orleans District B, Council Member Jay H. Banks.
The Rock & Rouge Foundation, Inc. was generously awarded a $1000 grant from the City of New Orleans District B, council member Jay H. Bank’s office on Wednesday, February 5th, 2020 in partnership with Harrah’s Casino. Harrah’s Casino has a city program to award businesses small grants that work on improving our community in New Orleans, Louisiana. We are so excited for the recognition from Mr. Banks’ office, and we would like to express our deepest gratitude toward our beautiful city and its city Council members of New Orleans. Thank you.
The Rock & Rouge 2020 Line-up!
Announcement 3.2.2020:
We are pleased to announce that the Charmaine Neville Band has been added to Rock & Rouge women line-up.
The Rock & Rouge 2020 is here!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Date: Friday, 1/10/2020
Special Event: The Rock & Rouge Women’s Music & Food Festival & beyond
Presented by: The Rock & Rouge Foundation, a non-profit 501(c)(3)
Location: Lafayette Square Park, S. Maestri Street, New Orleans, LA 70130
Time: 10 A.M. – 8:00 P.M.
Ticket: Donation $15 (100% tax-deductible)
Contact: Caroline Giepert
Phone: 504-523-6276 Email: press@therockandrouge.com
The Rock & Rouge Women’s Music & Food Festival & Beyond
New Orleans, Louisiana, January 10, 2020 – Announcing the 2nd Rock & Rouge Women’s Music & Food Festival & Beyond presented by the Rock & Rouge Foundation. Come on out to our exciting and new location at Lafayette Square Park in the CBD from 10 a.m. – 8 p.m. and experience this 1-day outdoor festival engineered for women’s and girl’s empowerment. Attendees will enjoy live music, food + drinks, speakers, raffle prizes, and our S.T.E.A.M. Tent for girls through your generous tax-deductible ticket donation.
Our Women Who Rock Stage will feature all local, women-fronted acts, including our headliner LENA PRIMA, THE VETTES, CHARMAINE NEVILLE BAND, BIG PEARL & THE FUGITIVES OF FUNK, MUEVELO, SHAWN WILLIAMS, SANDRA LOVE AND THE REASON, THE DIRTY RAIN REVELERS and SOUL GAZE. The Women’s Empowerment Panels will be returning with topics, like, women-business ownership, women in music business, women combating social and economic oppression, F Breast Cancer/Cancer(s), along with other diverse panelists and themes. The Rock & Rouge Foundation is a 501(c)(3) and welcomes back its sponsor, Microsoft, to the festival S.T.E.A.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics) Tent for this years activities designed for girls ages 8 – 14. Also, at this year’s S.T.E.A.M. tent, we’ll feature interactive workshops from Mad Science of Southeast Louisiana, Upturn Arts, plus, others. Our Foundation to introduce, inspire and educate the next generation of millennial girls by granting small scholarships to STEAM summer camps. Additional local organizations and individuals invested in educational programs, focusing on ages 8 – 14, will also help cultivate these activities, like New this year, we will have local women and music-oriented groups out at the festival to connect with the community about the important work they do for our city and its residents. Among these include Like-Minded Ladies, Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, Women with a Vision, CitizenSHE, New Orleans Musician’s Clinic – and more! Another new addition this year is our reserved seating, which can be purchased in advance and includes a wonderfully prepared picnic from Carmo, spearheaded by Chefs Christina and Dana Honn. Tickets for this will soon be available for purchase on our website therockandrouge.com and our Facebook page “The Rock & Rouge.”
Our Mission
The Rock & Rouge Foundation is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit based out of New Orleans, Louisiana that supports women’s and girl’s empowerment through improving and supporting educational opportunities for girls in the greater New Orleans area and supporting women’s projects throughout the year, locally or abroad. For more information about our Foundation, please visit our website http://bigpearl.com/rockandrougefoundation/.
We extend our deepest gratitude to our sponsors and donors. For a list of these, please visit our website http://bigpearl.com/rockandrougesponsors/.
Volunteer opportunities are available, please email: volunteers@therockandrouge.com
Sponsorship opportunities are available, please email the CEO: lani@therockandrouge.com
For more general info, please email info@therockandrouge.com
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2018 The Rock & Rouge Women’s Music & Food Festival
The Rock & Rouge Women’s Music & Food Festival would like to thank WGNO for capturing some highlights of our festival on June 30, which you can watch in the video below.
The Rock & Rouge Women’s Music & Food Festival deeply appreciates Offbeat Magazine for the lovely article found below, in addition to all the other methods Offbeat has supported the mission of The Rock & Rouge. Thank you, Offbeat Magazine! Click here to check out the article on www.offbeat.com.
Female-Fronted Rock & Rouge Music, Food & Beyond Festival Set For June 30
UPDATE: June 16’s Rock & Rouge Women’s Music & Food Festival has been postponed until Saturday, June 30. According to organizers, “We have been tracking the weather all week, and were sincerely hoping that we would be okay to move forward; however, with the current forecast from now until Saturday, we did not feel comfortable hosting our event. We did not want to put any of our talent, employees, volunteers, attendees, etc. in harm’s way. The panel times and locations will remain the same.”
On June 16, a brand new festival celebrating the empowerment of women in the community is coming to New Orleans Jazz Museum at the Old U.S. Mint.
The Rock & Rouge Women’s Music & Food Festival and Beyond’s story begins as the brainchild of Lani Ramos, a local recording artist, radio deejay, businesswoman and founder of Big Pearl Entertainment among many other titles.
On one balmy afternoon in April 2017, Ramos attended one of New Orleans’ many food and music festivals. After grabbing a plateful of crawfish, she looked over the music lineup and noticed that something was missing. Out of the 25 bands and artists enlisted, only one was fronted by a female musician.
Unfortunately, this distressing trend was not unique to this festival. For venues on Frenchmen and Bourbon Streets, male-fronted bands are consistently booked over female-fronted bands eight out of ten times.
Ramos decided that 2018 would be the year of change, and she wanted to help lead that change at the local level. Part of that change is coming in the form of the Rock & Rouge Music & Food Festival & beyond.
Ramos will host the opening of the festival, where she will present female entrepreneurs whom she and her team believe are helping to lead the change in the public sphere.
The festival’s main stage will boast a lineup of “Women Who Rock,” headlined by New Orleans’ own Soul Queen, Irma Thomas, along with female-fronted artists including The Vettes and Big Pearl & The Fugitives of Funk among others.
Other activities on-hand include food stands serving dishes from local female chefs; Shine On, an onsite salon emphasizing beauty from the inside out; What’s Next, female empowerment panel discussions that focus on STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics), politics and the future of women in music; and the Tomboy Tent for children aged eight to 15, which includes STEAM workshops for young girls and a performance stage for junior female-led bands.
Additional information can be found on the festival’s homepage. Admission is free and open to the public.
The Rock & Rouge thanks WWL for writing the following article perfectly describing our women’s empowerment festival. Click here to read about us on the WWL website!
Rock & Rouge women’s music, food festival set for Saturday
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans this weekend is hosting a music and food festival aimed at elevating and uplifting women.
Rock & Rouge is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, come rain or shine, at the New Orleans Jazz Museum at the Old U.S. Mint.
The festival was supposed to be held last weekend, but was rescheduled due to the weather.
Festival founder Lani Ramos said the free event will host two music stages with several performances scheduled, including sets by Irma Thomas, Lynn Drury, and Ramos, who performs as Big Pearl with her band, the Fugitives of Funk.
“This all started with the women’s march last year,” Ramos said. “It grew out of the idea of figuring out the next step post-march. I was really tired of seeing fests being played by a majority of men. We want to be in the front, at the helm of what we do.”
There also will be panel discussions on Mardi Gras Indian queens and women working in STEM fields, politics and the music industry. Speakers include Big Queen Laurita Dollis of the Wild Magnolias Mardi Gras Indian tribe. At least two New Orleans City Councilwomen are scheduled to participate.
Ramos said the event’s goal is to raise awareness about women’s rights and the women’s movement, and to introduce young girls to education pathways in STEM fields: science, technology, engineering and math. “We want to let them know that they can be and do anything,” she said.
A tent for girls, ages 8-15, will be set up for STEM workshops by Electric Girls founder Flor Serna, she said. There also will be a men’s “Dugout” featuring cigars and horseshoes.
Ramos said plans are in the works to produce the festival annually.
The Rock & Rouge sincerely appreciates The New Orleans Jazz Museum at the Old U.S. Mint for posting this awesome event listing on their website. Click here to check it out on www.nolajazzmuseum.org!
The Rock & Rouge Women’s Music & Food Festival will be held at the New Orleans Jazz Museum at the Old US Mint on Saturday, June 30th from 10 am until 10 pm.
We’ll be showcasing some amazing female talent, focusing on women empowerment all around. Our “Women Who Rock” Stage will feature female-fronted bands, headlined by Irma Thomas, Soul Queen of New Orleans. Around the grounds, we will be serving delicious cuisine provided by local female chefs and food vendors. Under the big oak tree, we’ll also create an elegant champagne experience with bubbly and caviar for those of age to drink.
For the younger generations, we have partnered with Electric Girls and Microsoft to create the Tomboy STEAM Tent for educational fun and enrichment. This tent will feature creative activities geared towards kids ages 8 to 14. Inside the Mint’s third floor theatre, we will host several Women’s Empowerment Panels, including: STEAM panel, Women in Politics panel, College panel, Music panel, Career panel, and Mardi Gras Indian & Krewe Queen panel.
For more information about our performers, vendors, and scheduled activities, please visit therockandrouge.com.