Open your eyes to Australia
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Sally Sloane has an important place in the history of traditional music in Australia.
She was the most documented traditional performer in Australia and the source of many collected tunes and songs. Continue reading “Who is Sally Sloane?”
Peggy Brooks was born Jean Linda Switzer in 1912 Footscray, Vic, to Henry Andrew Switzer and Emily Jean McCubbin, (known as Harry and Emma). She studied toe, ballet, and tap dancing with Jennie Brenan in Melbourne, Her first known foray into the world of entertainment was as a dancer at the age of fifteen when she did her first shows at the Saturday night “pops” at the local theatres. Continue reading “Peggy Brooks – Sweetheart of Song”