Mark Rummery
Mark, and his wife at the time Cathy Ovenden, lived in Armidale in rural New South Wales in 1983-88. They collected, arranged, transcribed and provided details of some of the Australian tunes in this archive.
They made recordings of folk music, folklore and reminiscences, which may now be found in the Rummery Collection in the National Library of Australia. The collection contains 40 tape recordings of folk music, folklore and reminiscences. The performers and interviewees lived in Broken Hill, Menindee, Narrandera, Wagga Wagga, Young, Boorowa, Crookwell, Binalong, Bingara, Bungendore and Sofala.
Mark Rummery is a graduate of the University of Sydney, where he studied classical music. After 1980 his interest changed to early Australian music and he began interviewing musicians in country towns. A resident of Armidale, where for a time he was a teacher, he was for many years closely associated with Barry McDonald and Chris Sullivan as a member of the Horton River Band. His former wife, Cathy Ovenden, also played in the band for some years.
