WOMEN OF AUSSIE MUSIC 1960s -1990s
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The blog is about women in the music industry from the 60s to the 90s who are lesser known but have contributed to the Australian music scene. The blog features biographies, discographies, and recommended listening of various female artists, such as Anne Infante, Genevieve McGuckin and Noosha Fox12.
WOMEN OF AUSSIE MUSIC 1960s -1990s
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Vocalist and guitarist Delores Foxtonfinn was a member of Me Me Me a Newcastle rockabilly band in the 90s. The band released a couple of albums and EPs on the Phantom label. Before Me Me Me Delores wrote and sang with bands Run Rabbit Run, Dust and Chantry Barn. She also performed in 'A Coupla Hundred Hertz' and 'Golden Section'. She now lives in the Hunter Valley occasionally performing and painting.
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WOMEN OF AUSSIE MUSIC 1960s -1990s
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As a singer/songwriter, Anne has been performing traditional, contemporary and original music for many years. Based in Brisbane, she was born in Sydney and raised in Papua New Guinea. In the early seventies she ran her own folk club, The Barley Mow, in the late Cecil Hotel in George Street, Brisbane. Anne has performed at national folk festivals in Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, New Zealand and Woodford. She has sung on national radio and television, enjoying a regular guest spot on the three series of ABC TV's top-rating 1970s show Around Folk.
Anne has recorded three CDs of her ..read more
WOMEN OF AUSSIE MUSIC 1960s -1990s
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Vonny Jay was born in South Australia and was known as that's states version of Brenda Lee. Vonny was discovered at The Princeton Club in the early 60s. She then went onto sing at every major dance circuit and appeared on all three Adelaide TV stations most notably Channel Seven's Seventeeners. Vonny at times fronted The Penny Rockets. She also appeared on Johnny O'Keefe's Sing Sing Sing ..read more
WOMEN OF AUSSIE MUSIC 1960s -1990s
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Anne Conway is a Wergaia woman who started her musical career when she was still in her teens. She had a long-running showcase at the Tamworth Country Music Festival, was inducted into the city's Hands of Fame in 1997 and won a number of awards. She performed all throughout eastern Australian. Anne recorded many albums on different labels. After surgery in June 2013 she was left with a speech impediment and it ended her singing career. Conway was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for her contributions to the Bendigo community
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WOMEN OF AUSSIE MUSIC 1960s -1990s
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Coral Drouyn emigrated to Australia in the 1960s, and worked as a singer, whilst writing material for theatre restaurants. Her stage name was Coral Kelly and she was the resident female singer on The Bryan Davies Show which aired from 1962 to 1963 on ABC. Retiring from singing and acting, Drouyn began writing for television, working as a scriptwriter for Grundy Productions series such as The Restless Years, Prisoner and Neighbours. During her time on Prisoner, Drouyn worked her way up from freelance writer to in-house story editor, creating characters and stories before leaving the series p ..read more
WOMEN OF AUSSIE MUSIC 1960s -1990s
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Born in Melbourne in 1935 Judy Banks was educated at Melbourne Church of England Grammar School where she was a member of the School Dramatic Society. Whilst holidaying in North America and England she took a course as a model and finally became a model and an accounting machine operator. During her London stay she saw a musical called Salad Days and immediately bought the Galaxy record of the original cast little thinking that she would one day play the lead role in it. On return to Melbourne, she got the role and came to prominence playing the juvenile lead. In 1958 she recorded some song ..read more
WOMEN OF AUSSIE MUSIC 1960s -1990s
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Candy Devine, MBE (born ca. 1939) is the stage name of Faye Ann McLeod a broadcaster, singer, and actress. Devine was educated at St Augustine's School, East Innisfail, a boarding school from 1948 – she provided "incidental music and accompaniments" at their 1952 break-up ceremony. For secondary education she attended Brisbane's Lourdes Hill College from the early 1950s. She furthered her interest in music while at college. Later she studied piano and cello at Queensland Conservatorium before taking to the stage in Sydney.
Devine's appearances on Australian television included music show B ..read more
WOMEN OF AUSSIE MUSIC 1960s -1990s
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Michelle Jackson was born at Noosa Heads, Queensland in 1956. She was interested in folk music at the age of 12 when she taught herself guitar before moving on later to fiddle and mandolin. She met Mike Jackson at the 1979 Kapunda Celtic Music Festival and married soon after. They toured Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the U.S. almost non-stop for 7 years and in between tours they created three songbooks, co-wrote an instruction book for string figure novices and recorded ten albums - two collections of Australian folk music for adults and eight for children. The bulk of their ..read more
WOMEN OF AUSSIE MUSIC 1960s -1990s
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Joy Dunstan (born 20 July 1951) is a retired Australian film and television actress. In 1976 the then 25-year-old former school teacher and part-time cabaret dancer had been working in a musical comedy act at Melbourne's Flying Trapeze Cafe when she was discovered by director Chris Löfvén. Löfvén's 1976 film 'Oz - A Rock'N'Roll Road Movie 'was a modern-day remake of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, with Graham Matters, Bruce Spence, Gary Waddell, and Robin Ramsay. In offering the part to Dunstan, he said to her "Come with me and I'll make you a star". Dunstan replied "I don't believe i ..read more
WOMEN OF AUSSIE MUSIC 1960s -1990s
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Penny Parsons was a lead vocalist with 60s bands The All Stars and The Vibrants. After going solo she appeared on TV shows like The Ernie Sigley Show and The Don Lane Show
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