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All Girl Summer Fun Band
Biography
As the Portland pop quartet All Girl Summer Fun Band proclaim in their aptly-titled "Theme Song": "They're nothing big / But they're nothing small / Just four best friends that you'd like to call / With Kathy, Kim, Arirak, and Jen / When you hear their songs / You'll want to hear them again." The group includes Kathy Foster (drums, vocals), Jen Sbragia (guitar, vocals), and New Mexico transplants Kim Baxter (keyboards, vocals) and Ari Douangpanya (bass, vocals). All four have also logged time in other bands, including Baxter's stint with Young Astronauts, Cherry Ice Cream Smile, and One Two; Sbragia with Pretty Face, Kissing Book, and the Softies (a duo with Tiger Trap vocalist Rose Melberg); and Foster with Haelah, Hutch and Kathy, and the one-woman band Butterfly Transformation Service.

The foursome came into being after a Softies show in Portland in 1998, when Baxter approached Sbragia with a cassette tape of her music. She and Douangpanya had recently moved to town from Albuquerque, where Baxter had played a gig with K Records' co-founder Calvin Johnson several years prior. Sbragia liked what she heard, and Baxter introduced her to a couple of like-minded souls: Foster and Douangpanya.
Selected Discography

Summer Of '98
2003
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2003
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