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How Kansas City's music and Filipino community reunited Fanny for one special concert

Brie Howard-Darling, Patti Quatro, Mia Huggins and June Millington at the Kansas City screening of Fanny: The Right To Rock at Screenland Armour Theatre, Oct. 4, 2022. Todd Zimmer hide caption

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How Kansas City's music and Filipino community reunited Fanny for one special concert

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November 2, 2022 • Despite being a band rooted in California rock tradition, the local embrace of Fanny in Kansas City, Mo. speaks to how the band's ethos transcends geography.

41 Women Who Should Be In The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame

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41 Women Who Should Be In The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame

January 15, 2020 • Dolly Parton, Carla Thomas, Fanny, The Runaways and Salt n Pepa are just some of the women who should be in the Hall by now.

'70s Rockers Fanny Are Back With A New Album And New Stage Name

"All those years of life experience, time on our instruments, having shared our history together and apart, led to the stories written about on this record," says Brie Howard. Marita Madeloni/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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Songs We Love

'70s Rockers Fanny Are Back With A New Album And New Stage Name

February 14, 2018 • Fanny is one of music's lost legendary entities, often invoked but seldom playlisted. The band's first song in 44 years conveys the same effervescent spirit.

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The 150 Greatest Albums Made By Women

July 24, 2017 • NPR's list of the greatest albums made by women, from 1964 to the present.

You've Got A Home: June Millington's Lifelong Journey In Rock

June Millington, the author of the memoir Land of a Thousand Bridges: Island Girl in a Rock & Roll World, on the porch of the Fanny's House of Music in East Nashville. The shop is named after Millington's band, Fanny. Audrey Spillman for NPR hide caption

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You've Got A Home: June Millington's Lifelong Journey In Rock

November 19, 2015 • The founding member of Fanny, a groundbreaking all-female rock group, June Millington has everything it takes to be mythologized as a rock hero. Now she's telling her own story.