Alice Mahoney
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Jump to navigationJump to searchAlice Mahoney, Mudgee, NSW provided details of some of the Australian tunes in this archive. Portrait [1]
The National Library of Australia holds aural recordings of interviews conducted with Alice Mahoney. She was interviewed by
- John Meredith in March 1983,[2]. Mahoney and Collie are from Two Mile Flat near Gulgong, New South Wales, and speak of playing for dances and the places they would play. Also available online [3]
"Mrs Alice Mahoney and her sister Mrs Milly Collie was born to the Cunningham family soon after 1900. They grew up at Two Mile Flat near Gulgong ... and used to accompany their parents to dances ... where she learnt to old dance tunes she played for Chris Sullivan and me on her violin. ... She played in the family band of four brothers and sisters playing concertina, mouth organ, accordion and violin." -- (Adapted from) J Meredith, R Covell, P Brown, Folk Songs of Australia Vol 2, UNSW Press, 1987, p52-4.
