some scrapbook moments      

Southern Cross Ballroom,
Melbourne 1965
(Alex's 38th birthday)
Margret with mentor
Professor Alex Bradford

"The Singing Rage of the Gospel Age"
2nd National Folk Festival,
Melbourne, 1968.
Margret & Bob Maza

An intimate, poignant and possibly creative
moment with
Bob Hudson
(writer of
'Girls in our Town')

During performances of
Adjusting the RearView Mirror
with Bruce McNicol
Margret invites an audience member to snap that performance's souvenir photo


A (justifiable) mutual admiration society
Margret & Odetta ... Sydney in 1989

In New Orleans
(meeting point between Sydney & Rio perhaps)
with that 'boy from Oz'
Peter Allen
1984


Margret &
Dame Joan Sutherland
Brisbane Writers Festival
1996


A formally clad Margret with
Kate & Anna McGarrigle
resplendent in matching PJ's
No explanation is forthcoming for the circumstances of this photograph
(that would just spoil it, now wouldn't it?)


In performance with Martin Tucker
playing West African 'Kora'
(traditionally played only by persons
of the male persuasion)

In The Gambia, West Africa 1996
with Kora teacher
Malamini Jobarteh


Margret catches up with
Kandia Kouyate
(her favourite West African singer)
in Sydney - 1992


Margret with her
'African daughter'
Mariama Toure
(seen at left dancing with
Les Ballets Africains)


Margret with
Hamidou Bangoura
(artistic director of
Les Ballets Africains)
with his two wives.
(Margret declined offer to be the third)
in Conakry, Guinea, West Africa

 


Margret & Taj Mahal - Byron Bay
East Coast Blues Festival 1997.
(Margret's recording of 'Cakewalk Into Town"
was the first cover version of a
Taj Mahal song.)

Hear a sample by clicking here


When Margret became the only other person to record his
'Jesus Christ Standing Room Only'
Tom Paxton's quip was
"What do all the others know that we don't?"

Two Ozzie icons
in New Orleans in 1984.
Rolf Harris
(pointing out the stairway to heaven)

In Memphis 1985
Margret and Rufus Thomas
(legendary bluesman best remembered
for the classic
"Walking the Dog")

At the Tivoli, Brisbane 1997
Margret with
Danny & Richard Thompson
(Danny is Margret's favourite bassist -
she has been known to buy albums by anyone
who is wise enough to feature Danny's bass)

Margret starring in 'Cinderella ACappella'
at Sydney Opera House
Click here for music page to hear sound sample

The 'not quite as tall as me'
Margaret Whitlam with
 'Girls in Your Town' cast
Jarnie Birmingham, Moya Simpson, Mara Kiek & me.

Sydney 1995
Margret with
Miriam (Mama Africa) Makeba
New York 1984
Margret with Irving Burgie
(Lord Burgess)
writer of Jamaica Farewell
and Island in the Sun
amongst other classic songs
at The Basement, Sydney
Margret with
Loudon Wainwright III
Illawarra Folk Festival 2007
Margret with
Rory McLeod
Mossman, Queensland 1997
Festival of Soloists
Margret with Christine Johnston &
Annie Lee (Kransky Sisters) & Diane Cilento

North Carolina, 1999
Margret with
Ashford & Simpson
(Ain't No Mountain High Enough,
Reach Out and Touch etc
)

Though Margret's not big on cars or driving... at Graceland
she couldn't resist trying out this pink jalopy from
Elvis' movie Blue Hawaii. Oh and she did once actually own
(and drive) a Messerschmidt bubble car


An intimidating amount of talent in Brisbane 1998
Marian Henderson, Jeannie Lewis, Sandy McCutcheon and what'shername
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