RoadKnight, Margret

Also known as
Roadknight, Margaret
RoadKnight, Margret (1943-)
Field of activity
musician; performer; singer; songwriter; Montsalvat Jazz Festival Honour Roll; Port Fairy Folk Festival Artist of the Year; Folk singer
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Margret RoadKnight was an activist in the women's liberation movement in Australia during the 1970s. She began her singing career in Melbourne in 1963. In 1973 she supported a women's liberation initiative, the She Concerts, which were held in Sydney and Melbourne. She was well-known for her song 'Girls in Our Town' which was one of the first songs to explore the isolation of young Australian married women living in suburbia. She has performed solo and in collaboration with many local and overseas performers, singing jazz, blues, folk, gospel and songs raising issues of social justice, both in Australia and overseas.

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Margret RoadKnight made her professional debut in Melbourne in 1963, singing at the Emerald Hill Theatre. She spent much of her early career performing at folk venues in Melbourne and Sydney. From the mid-1960s RoadKnight guested on numerous television programmes including Folkmoot, hosted by Leonard Teale. In 1974 she first toured to America on an Australia Council grant, and in 1976 she released the charting single Girls in Our Town. RoadKnight's performances are renowned for their musical diversity and her repertoire draws from contemporary, jazz, folk, blues and gospel music. She has performed topical songs for much of her career and is a noted social and political activist. Social issues such as women's and human rights are regularly addressed in her performances and recordings. RoadKnight has released ten albums since 1973 and appeared on many others, including performances with Ted Egan and the Bulgarian choir Martenitsa. She has also contributed theme songs to two films. Since 1974 she has toured internationally in the USA, Canada, England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, China, South Korea, Tonga, Vanuatu and New Zealand. She has performed and recorded with many internationally renowned musicians including Taj Mahal, Bert Jansch, Ani DeFranco, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Pete Seeger. RoadKnight presented five theatre productions with the South Australian Theatre Company and co-produced a production with the Sydney Puppet Theatre. She has been a musical director and a cabaret and comedy performer. RoadKnight has taught song writing, guitar and singing, and lectured on folk, black and women's music. For a decade RoadKnight toured with Musica Viva In Schools, presenting multicultural and African music to students across Australia. RoadKnight has worked on various arts advisory committees and was an overseas correspondent on gospel music. She was the first singer added to the Montsalvat Jazz Festival Honour Roll and was the Port Fairy Folk Festival Artist of the Year in 1998.

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Selected resources (2)

Australian Women's Register

  1. Australian Feminism: A Companion
    Caine, Barbara
    [1998]
    Published: Oxford University Press
  2. National Library of Australia, Oral History & Folklore Section : Interview with Margret RoadKnight, musician [sound recording] / interviewed by Peter Parkhill
    2000. 4 digital audio tapes (ca. 260 min. RoadKnight speaks of her current projects such as teaching for Musica Viva, producing a programme called Out of Africa relating to the spread of African music, producing an ABC programme on gospel music, her experiences in performing, how her musical tastes developed while still at school, the folk music scene in Melbourne in 1962, the politics of the folk scene, her first regular gig at the Reata while working in the public service, coffee lounges in the 1960s and the other competition, the folk scene in Sydney, putting on her own concert and recording an album which won awards, singing with Frank Traynor's band and Bentley's Boogie Band, an Australia Council music study grant to visit the United States in 1974, her trip to China including an invitation to the Peking Conservatorium, her trip to a festival in Tonga as well as visit to South Korea, her interest in African music, her recording career and public exposure, her role as a singer in Australian society and the relevance of songs.
    ORAL TRC 4566

Resources by Margret RoadKnight (19)

  1. Margret RoadKnight : Australian singer
    RoadKnight, Margret
    [ Archived website : 1998-2012 ]
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    At 3 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 29.121)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 29.121)

  2. Interview with Margret RoadKnight, entertainer / Interviewer: Bill Stephens
    RoadKnight, Margret
    [ Sound : 1994 ]
    At National Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 19.595)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 19.595)

  3. Interview with Margret RoadKnight, musician / interviewer, Peter Parkhill
    RoadKnight, Margret
    [ Sound : 2000 ]
    At National Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 19.191)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 19.191)

  4. At the school of arts cafe / Margret Roadknight
    RoadKnight, Margret
    [ Sound : 1996 ]
    At State Library of VIC
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    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 8.509)

  5. An audience with Margret Roadknight and Bruce McNicol / Margaret Roadknight and Bruce McNicol
    RoadKnight, Margret
    [ Sound : 1998 ]
    At Darebin Libraries
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  6. Out of fashion, not out of style [performed by] Margret Roadknight
    RoadKnight, Margret
    [ Sound : 1980 ]
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  7. Margret RoadKnight and Colin Dryden workshop in Queensland Folk Federation collection
    RoadKnight, Margret
    [ Sound : 1970 ]
    At National Library
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  8. Margaret Roadknight
    RoadKnight, Margret
    [ Sound : 1976 ]
    At State Library of VIC
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    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 5.423)

  9. People get ready / Margaret Roadknight with sextet
    RoadKnight, Margret
    [ Sound : 1973 ]
    At Edith Cowan Uni
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 5.353)

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  10. Live performance by Margaret Roadknight
    RoadKnight, Margret
    [ Sound ]
    At State Library S Aust
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  1. Margret RoadKnight : Australian singer
    RoadKnight, Margret
    [ Archived website : 1998-2012 ]
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    At 3 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 29.161)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 29.161)

  2. [Biographical cuttings on Margret RoadKnight, singer, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals]
    [ Published : 1900-1990 ]
    At National Library
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  3. Interview with Margret RoadKnight, entertainer / Interviewer: Bill Stephens
    RoadKnight, Margret
    [ Sound : 1994 ]
    At National Library
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    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 19.598)

  4. Interview with Margret RoadKnight, musician / interviewer, Peter Parkhill
    RoadKnight, Margret
    [ Sound : 2000 ]
    At National Library
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    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 19.007)

  5. Margret RoadKnight : peace concert
    Queensland Rally for Peace Committee
    [ Poster, chart, other : 1980-1989 ]
    At State Library of QLD
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    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 13.711)

  6. Portrait of Margret RoadKnight, 1990
    Franklin, David, 1934-1994
    [ Photograph : 1990 ]
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    At National Library
    Portrait of Margret RoadKnight, 1990
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 11.192)

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  7. Portrait of Margret RoadKnight, 1986 / Terry Milligan
    Milligan, Terry
    [ Photograph : 1986 ]
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    At National Library
    Portrait of Margret RoadKnight, 1986 / Terry Milligan
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 10.52)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 10.52)

  8. Collection of portraits of Margret RoadKnight, singer, visiting the National Library of Australia, Music Section, Canberra, 22 July 1994 / Loui Seselja
    Seselja, Loui, 1948-
    [ Photograph : 1994 ]
    View online
    At National Library
    Collection of portraits of Margret RoadKnight, singer, visiting the National Library of Australia, Music Section, Canberra, 22 July 1994 / Loui Seselja
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 9.773)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 9.773)

  9. Portrait of Margret RoadKnight at Montsalvat, 1993 / Joyce Evans
    Evans, Joyce
    [ Photograph : 1993 ]
    At National Library
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    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 9.629)

  10. Australia's Queen of the Blues : Margret Roadknight and Judy Bailey with John J. Francis ... on tour
    [ Poster, chart, other : 1969-1985 ]
    At State Library of QLD
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 7.612)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 7.612)

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  3. GIRLS IN YOUR TOWN
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  1. MUSIC.(Life & Style)
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