Special live show from March 8, 2003, celebrating International Women's Day, when SEDGE welcomed:

GURINDER CHADA, director of "Bend it Like Beckham", the opening film of San Francisco's Asian American Film Festival. "Bend it Like Beckham" tells the story of a teenage girl forced to choose between her dreams of soccer stardom and her traditional Sikh family in this rousing British comedy full of cultural mix and female kicks. With her will be husband and co-screenwriter, Paul Mayeda Burges.

BLAME SALLY, juggling influences that range from flamenco to traditional folk, jazz to straight ahead rock, country to urban funk.

DEBORAH PARDES, singer songwriter and founder of Artists for Literacy, a program that among other endeavors, will be releasing a second CD of music performed by first-rate musicians, inspired by great writing.

VIVIANA GUZMAN, flute virtuoso with piano accompaniment by Lisa Spector.

LYNN FREED, author of "House of Women".

LISA SPECKTOR as the house pianist.

PATCHY SANDERS the seven-piece band from Ashland, Oregon conjures up a fabulously folky tapestry of sound, drawing upon Celtic, Appalachian, Medieval and Bluegrass musical traditions. from November 2013