Amazon Country features the newest in contemporary lesbian music, along with feminist classics. The show is hosted and produced by Debra D'Alessandro.

Amazon Country celebrates the diversity of the Women's Music movement and showcases the roots and icons within this genre, as well as spotlighting new talent. Founded in 1974, Amazon Country has a proud legacy of bringing lesbian and feminist musicians to the airwaves.

Tune to Amazon Country, Sunday nights at 11:00pm EST. You can even listen online!

Amazon Country Refrigerator Door Calendar
Amazon Country has long provided information about community events and performances to our listeners. To receive the "Refrigerator Door" calendar of events of interest to lesbians, feminists, and our allies in your email box each week, send an email to amazon@xpn.org

About Debra D'Alessandro, Host and Producer of Amazon Country:
Host Debra D'Alessandro is an activist, educator and entertainer with a wide range of performance and broadcast experience.

An award-winning broadcaster, Debra D'Alessandro is host and producer of Amazon Country. Founded in 1974 Amazon Country is the nation's longest running lesbian/feminist radio program. Debra has hosted the show since 1996, and has received two Philadelphia Gay News Lambda Awards and a 2003 OutMusic Special Recognition Award for her work on Amazon Country.

From 1999 to 2005, Debra hosted weekly call-in TV talk shows, Philly LIVE: Your Gay and Lesbian Community Connection and OutLoud on WYBE public television. The two-time Emmy nominated Philly Live was America's first live gay-themed television talk show.

Debra has worked in the fields of reproductive health, domestic violence, and LGBT civil rights. Since 1993, her "day job" has been designing continuing education programs on HIV and other public health issues for health care providers. She is currently enrolled in Columbia University's Executive Master of Public Health program.

Contact Amazon Country
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Amazon Country Playlists
Playlists for Amazon Country, as well as other WXPN programs can be found online in our Playlist section.

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