Robyn Archer began learning popular folk and country songs and appearing in variety shows at

A 15-year-old Robyn Archer (appearing pre-pseudonym as ‘Robyn Smith’) was a

The Vamps broke the mould by becoming Australia’s first all-female rock band in April 1965.

Robyn Archer is a versatile Australian singer, writer, and stage and artistic director.

Amy Castles recorded this song from Verdi’s opera Rigoletto in September 1906 in London. It is one of her earliest commercial recordings.

Deborah Conway, along with her partner and collaborator Willy Zygier, performed a special concert at the NFSA.

Singing a song that Nellie Melba made famous, Violet Mount, who used the stage name L’Incognita, is paired with the New Zealand born flautist, John Amadio.

This collection contains portraits and recordings of 15 pioneering Australian opera singers, music-hall performers, jazz vocalists and instrumentalists.

This sentimental song in which a girl reminisces with her father about her mother, who has passed away, was recorded on the Pathe record label whilst Ella Caspers was in Europe.

Ada Crossley first performed this song at a benefit concert at Melbourne Town Hall in April 1889 and it was to become a regular in her repertoire.