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ro Cro Land is a brand new multi-stage indie music festival that was hosted in the centre of Croydon, South London on 6 April 2019. The goal is to bring guitar bands back to the birthplace of punk and celebrate the area’s rich musical history (alumni include: The Damned, Peter Grant - manager of Led Zeppelin, Nadia Rose). In line with Keychange by PRS Foundation (a pioneering international initiative which empowers women to transform the future of music and encourages festivals to achieve a 50:50 gender balance by 2022), Julia Woollams & Angela Martin, Cro Cro Land organisers believe gender parity is vital in order to make change in the male-dominated industry. Festivalgoers can not only expect an equal bill, but also a crew where women are fairly represented.
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“More festivals need to sign up into trying to put on a 50/50 festival. We’d like to say we’re talking about musicians rather than female musicians and be able to drop the label of ‘female’ because a male or female band are just as good as each other. Until we get to that balance, we’re going to still have to push female-led bands. Ideally, we move beyond that.” Julia Woollams, Founder
“There seem to still be this gender-balance issue within the music industry, so we wanted to create something that gave opportunities for bands, new and emerging, that were struggling to get into festival bills for whatever reason.” Angela Martin, Founder
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