Maria Zann
Maria Zann and Mark Schuster "were both trained as biologists, and taught themselves to play Australian dance music eight years ago. Maria Zann danced old time as a teenager in Casino NSW, and plays fiddle, concertina, zither and button accordian." -- "A Queensland Selection", Vol 1, compiled by Maria Zann, collected by Mark Schuster, Pioneer Performer Series, Carrawobbity Press, 1992, p4.
"When we returned to Queensland in 1988, after exile in Canberra for five years, Mark and I began to collect dance music and dances in earnest. Fortunately there were elderly musicians and dance M.C.'s (Masters of Ceremonies) in out of the way places who were keen to teach us their repertoires." -- ibid. p1.
The Mark Schuster and Maria Zann folklore collection 1958-1998 is held in the National Library of Australia in Canberra.
Maria Zann collected some of the Australian tunes in this archive.
