Jump to content

Jeannie Lewis: Difference between revisions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Content deleted Content added
 
(46 intermediate revisions by 29 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
{{EngvarB|date=August 2014}}
{{EngvarB|date=August 2014}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2014}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2014}}
{{Infobox musical artist
'''Jean Ethel "Jeannie" Lewis''' (born 8 January 1945) is an Australian musician and stage performer whose work covers many different styles such as folk, jazz, Latin, blues, opera, rock and fusion. Her music often includes a strong social consciousness and political statements.<ref name=Milesago>{{cite web
|title=Jeannie Lewis
| name = Jeannie Lewis
| image =
|work=Australasian Music & Popular Culture 1964–1975
| image_upright =
|publisher=Milesago
| image_size =
|url=http://www.milesago.com/Artists/jeannie.htm
| landscape = <!-- yes, if wide image, otherwise leave blank -->
|accessdate= 11 March 2008 }}</ref>
| alt =
| caption =
| background = solo_singer
| birth_name = Jean Ethel Lewis
| alias =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1945|1|8}}
| birth_place =
| origin = Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
| death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|df=y|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date first) -->
| death_place =
| genre = {{flatlist|
* Jazz
* folk
* Latin
* blues
* opera
* rock
* fusion
}}
| occupations = Musician
| instruments = {{flatlist|
* Vocals
* guitar
}}
| years_active = 1964–present
| label = {{flatlist|
* [[EMI]]
* [[Warner Music Group|WEA]]
* [[Larrikin Records|Larrikin]]/EMI
}}
| associated_acts =
| website = {{URL|jeannielewis.com/}}
}}

'''Jean Ethel''' "'''Jeannie'''" '''Lewis''' (born 8 January 1945) is an Australian musician and stage performer whose work covers many different styles such as folk, jazz, Latin, blues, opera, rock and fusion.<ref name="McFarlane">McFarlane, [https://web.archive.org/web/20040419090203/http://www.whammo.com.au/encyclopedia.asp?articleid=1012 'Jeannie Lewis'] entry. Archived from [http://www.whammo.com.au/encyclopedia.asp?articleid=1012 the original] on 19 April 2004. Retrieved 19 April 2018.</ref> Her music often includes a strong social consciousness and political statements.<ref name="Milesago">{{cite web | archiveurl = https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20030623140000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/35967/20030624-0000/www.milesago.com/Artists/jeannie.htm | url = http://www.milesago.com/Artists/jeannie.htm | title = Jeannie Lewis | last1 = Kimball | first1 = Duncan | publisher = Milesago: Australasian Music and Popular Culture 1964–1975. Ice Productions | year = 2002 | archivedate = 23 June 2003 | accessdate = 24 May 2015 }}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> Australian musicologist, [[Ian McFarlane]], described her as "one of the most enigmatic and expressive, yet underrated singers Australia has ever produced... Always able to adapt her emotional and dramatic voice to suit a range of moods and styles."<ref name="McFarlane"/>


==Early life==
==Early life==
Lewis attended [[Sydney Girls High School]]<ref>[http://www.crikey.com.au/articles/2002/04/28-alumni.html ''Crikey!: Famous alumni on Latham's hit list'', April 2002] Retrieved 7 January 2006. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051229174118/http://www.crikey.com.au/articles/2002/04/28-alumni.html |date=29 December 2005 }}</ref> and studied at the [[University of Sydney]].<ref name=Curthoys/> She began her musical career in the 1960s in Sydney. She was a part of the York Gospel Singers<ref>Haesler, Bill (2004). [http://www.abc.net.au/religion/stories/s1137531.htm ABC, Religion and Ethics, God, Church and All That Jazz, A brief history from an Australian perspective]. Retrieved 6 January 2006.</ref> and the Radiation Quartet<ref name=Hennessy>Hennessy, Julanna (2004). [http://www4.tpgi.com.au/2juls/Jeannie.htm Jeannie Lewis on the Net]. Retrieved 6 January 2006.</ref> and sang with The Ray Price Jazz Quintet, The Nat Oliver Jazz Band and [[Alan Lee (bandleader)|The Alan Lee Jazz Quintet]].<ref name=Milesago/>


Jean Ethel Lewis was born in 1945 as the only daughter of [[Sam Lewis (trade unionist)|Samuel Phineas Lewis]] (1901–1976), a school teacher and trade union official, and Ethel Caroline (née Teerman, c. 1908–1985), also a school teacher.<ref name="ADB Sam bio">{{cite web | url = http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/lewis-samuel-phineas-sam-10825 | title = Biography – Samuel Phineas (Sam) Lewis | last = Sullivan | first = Martin | work = National Centre of Biography, [[Australian Dictionary of Biography]] | publisher = [[Australian National University]] | volume = 15 | year = 2000 | accessdate = 19 April 2018 }}</ref><ref name="Newcastle Nov47">{{cite news | url = http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article134231234 |title = Claims Mr. S. P. Lewis Key Communist | newspaper = [[The Newcastle Herald|Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate]] | issue = 22,184 | date = 8 November 1947 | accessdate = 19 April 2018 | page = 3 | via = [[National Library of Australia]] }}</ref><ref name="Simmons">{{cite news | url = http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article127279751 | title = Arts & Entertainment: Committed to a Dream with Tears of Steel | last = Simmons | newspaper = [[The Canberra Times]] | volume = 71 | issue = 22,059 | date = 9 September 1995 | accessdate = 21 April 2018 | page = 54 | via =National Library of Australia}}</ref> She later recalled, "I grew up with left-wing parents who were not only good human beings, but whose dreams were about quality for everyone."<ref name="Simmons"/> She attended [[Sydney Girls High School]]<ref name="Crikey Apr02">{{cite journal | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20050308171603/http://www.crikey.com.au/articles/2002/04/28-alumni.html | url = http://www.crikey.com.au/articles/2002/04/28-alumni.html | title = Famous alumni on Latham's hit list| journal = [[Crikey]] | archivedate = 8 March 2005 | date = 28 April 2002 | accessdate = 19 April 2018 }}</ref> and studied at the [[University of Sydney]].<ref name=Curthoys/> She started "on a teaching scholarship, majoring in French and modern history."<ref name="Simmons"/>
Lewis was a member of the Sydney University Organising Committee for Action on Aboriginal Rights to organise action around [[NAIDOC|National Aborigines Day]] on 8 July 1964. She was arrested in a demonstration in May 1964 at [[Wynyard, Sydney|Wynyard]], and she helped arrange the folk singers for a concert in [[Hyde Park, Sydney|Hyde Park]] to raise funds for the [[Freedom Ride (Australia)|Freedom Ride]], as well as appearing in another fundraising concert at [[Paddington, New South Wales|Paddington]] Town Hall.<ref name=Curthoys>{{cite book | author=Curthoys, Ann | title=Freedom Ride | publisher=Allen and Unwin | year=2002 | isbn=1-86448-922-7}}</ref> She represented Australia at the ''International Festival of Contemporary Song'' in [[Cuba]] in 1967.<ref>{{cite book

Instead of teaching Lewis worked an office job and began her musical career in the 1960s in Sydney. She was a member of the York Gospel Singers alongside [[Alison MacCallum]].<ref name="Simmons"/><ref name="Haesler">{{cite web | last = Haesler | first = Bill | year = 2004 | url = http://www.abc.net.au/religion/stories/s1137531.htm | title = God, Church and All That Jazz, A brief history from an Australian perspective| publisher = [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] (ABC) | work = Encounter: Religion and Ethics | accessdate = 19 April 2018 }}</ref> and the Radiation Quartet.<ref name=Hennessy>Hennessy, Julanna (2004). [http://www4.tpgi.com.au/2juls/Jeannie.htm Jeannie Lewis on the Net] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060504211143/http://www4.tpgi.com.au/2juls/Jeannie.htm |date=4 May 2006 }}. Retrieved 6 January 2006.</ref> She sang with the Ray Price Jazz Quintet, the Nat Oliver Jazz Band and [[Alan Lee (bandleader)|the Alan Lee Jazz Quintet]].<ref name="McFarlane"/><ref name=Milesago/> She was a member of the Sydney University Organising Committee for Action on Aboriginal Rights to organise action around [[NAIDOC|National Aborigines Day]] on 8 July 1964.

She was arrested in a demonstration in May 1964 at [[Wynyard, Sydney|Wynyard]], and helped arrange folk singers for a concert in [[Hyde Park, Sydney|Hyde Park]] to raise funds for the [[Freedom Ride (Australia)|Freedom Ride]], as well as appearing in another fund-raising concert at [[Paddington, New South Wales|Paddington]] Town Hall.<ref name=Curthoys>{{cite book | author = Curthoys, Ann | title = Freedom Ride | publisher = Allen and Unwin | year = 2002 | isbn=1-86448-922-7}}</ref> She represented Australia at the International Festival of Contemporary Song in [[Cuba]] in 1967.<ref name="Simmons"/><ref name="Atkinson">{{cite book
|first=Ann
|first=Ann
|last=Atkinson
|last=Atkinson
|author2=Knight, Linsay and McPhee, Margaret
|author2=Knight, Linsay and McPhee, Margaret
|year=1996
|year=1996
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ELACebeQEgcC&pg=PA135&lpg=PA135
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ELACebeQEgcC&pg=PA135
|title=Dictionary of Performing Arts in Australia
|title=Dictionary of Performing Arts in Australia
|pages=135–6
|pages=135–6
|publisher=Allen and Unwin
|publisher=Allen and Unwin
|isbn=1-86373-898-3
|isbn=1-86373-898-3
}}</ref><ref name="Tharu Apr73"/> Lewis was one of 67 demonstrators fined for "obstructing traffic", in May 1968 while protesting against [[Conscription in Australia#Vietnam War|conscription]] during the [[Vietnam War]], out front of the Prime Minister's [[The Lodge (Australia)|Lodge]].<ref name="Can Times May68">{{cite news | url = http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article107052901 |title = 67 demonstrators fined | newspaper = [[The Canberra Times]] | volume = 42 | issue = 12,006 | date = 21 May 1968 | accessdate = 19 April 2018 | page = 10 | via = National Library of Australia }}</ref>
}}</ref>


==1970s==
==1970s==
In 1970, Lewis performed with [[Tully (band)|Tully]] in an ambitious rock performance named ''Love 200'' which involved 2 vocalists, a rock band, a Lightshow from Roger Foley-Fogg aka Ellis D Fogg and a Symphony Orchestra. Created by [[Peter Sculthorpe]] it was written to commemorate the Captain Cook bicentennial and explored themes of [[Captain Cook]]'s journey to plot the transit of [[Venus]] in 1770, the voyage that led to his "discovery" of Australia.<ref name=Milesago/> Also in 1970 Lewis had a band named ''Gypsy Train''.<ref name=Milesago/> In March 1971 ''Love 200'' travelled to [[Adelaide]] and this time Lewis performed with [[Fraternity (band)|Fraternity]], fronted by [[Bon Scott]], and the [[Melbourne Symphony Orchestra]].<ref>{{cite book | author=Walker, Clinton | title=Highway to Hell | publisher=Picador | year=2002 | isbn=0-330-36377-8}}</ref> Lewis also appeared on the Ray Price Jazz Quintet album ''Spectrum'',<ref name=Milesago/> and in April performed at the ''Timeless Trip'' at Fairlight with eight other performers.<ref>[http://www.milesago.com/festivals/fairlight.htm ''Milesago: Fairlight – The Timeless Tripp''] Retrieved 7 January 2006.</ref>


In February 1970 Lewis sang with progressive rockers, [[Tully (band)|Tully]], in a performance, ''Love 200'', which used two vocalists, a light show by [[Ellis D Fogg|Roger Foley-Fogg]] {{Abbr|a.k.a.|also known as}} Ellis D Fogg and the [[Sydney Symphony Orchestra]].<ref name=Milesago/><ref name="Tharu Apr73"/> Created by [[Peter Sculthorpe]],<ref name="Tharu Apr73"/> it was written to commemorate the bicentenary of [[Captain Cook]]'s journey to plot the transit of [[Venus]] in 1770, which led to his "discovery" of Australia's east coast by the British explorer.<ref name=Milesago/> Lewis, on lead vocals, was a member of a band, Gypsy Train, later in 1970;<ref name="McFarlane"/><ref name=Milesago/> fellow members were Bobby Gebert on piano, John Helman on bass guitar (ex-[[The Clefs#Levi Smith's Clefs|Levi Smith's Clefs]]), Daryl McKenzie on drums, Kydric Shaw on guitar and Terry Wilson on vocals (of Tully).<ref name="McFarlane"/>
In 1972, Lewis performed the songs for an Australian B-grade rock musical/science fiction/fantasy movie ''[[Shirley Thompson vs. the Aliens]]'',<ref>Hood, Robert (1994). [http://www.tabula-rasa.info/AusHorror/OzHorrorFilms1.html Tabula-Rasa, Killer Koalas, Australian (and New Zealand) Horror Films, a History.]. Retrieved 6 January 2006.
</ref> directed by [[Jim Sharman]] and noted for being "loathed by underground art-house and commercial managements alike", and in an ill-fated rock opera ''Terry and Frankie''.<ref>[http://www.milesago.com/artists/bird-johna.htm ''Milesago: John A. Bird''] Retrieved 7 January 2006.</ref>


In March 1972 ''Love 200'' was staged in [[Adelaide]], where Lewis performed with [[Fraternity (band)|Fraternity]], fronted by [[Bon Scott]], and the [[Melbourne Symphony Orchestra]].<ref name="Walker">{{cite book | author = Walker, Clinton | authorlink = Clinton Walker | title = Highway to Hell | chapter = Up in the Hills too Long | publisher = Picador | year = 2002 | page = 95 | isbn = 0-330-36377-8 }}</ref> She recorded vocals for the Ray Price Jazz Quintet album, ''Spectrum'' (1971).<ref name="McFarlane"/><ref name=Milesago/> In April of that year she performed in the Timeless Trip as part of the Fairlight Festival, near [[Mittagong]], with eight other performers.<ref name="Kimball 2">{{cite web | archiveurl = https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20030623140000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/35967/20030624-0000/www.milesago.com/Festivals/Fairlight.htm | url = http://www.milesago.com/festivals/fairlight.htm | title = Festivals: Fairlight 'The Timeless Trip' | last1 = Stacey | first1 = Terry J | editor = Duncan Kimball | publisher = Milesago: Australasian Music and Popular Culture 1964–1975. Ice Productions | year = 2002 | archivedate = 23 June 2003 | accessdate = 19 April 2018 }}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> She had to provide an acoustic set as the sound gear was not yet installed by the festival's organisers.<ref name="Kimball 2"/>
In 1973, Lewis released her first album, ''Free Fall Through Featherless Flight''. The cover was designed by [[Martin Sharp]]. In 1974 it was awarded Best Female Vocal Album in the Australian Radio Record Awards.<ref name=Official >[http://www.jeannielewis.com ''Jeannie Lewis'' Official Website] Retrieved 6 January 2006.</ref> Also in 1973 Lewis joined the Music Board of the Australian Council for the Arts,<ref>[http://www.whitlam.org/collection/1973/19730216_Aus_Council_Arts/ ''Whitlam Institute: Australian Council for the Arts, Press statement No. 54''] Retrieved 6 January 2006. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050718145826/http://www.whitlam.org/collection/1973/19730216_Aus_Council_Arts/ |date=18 July 2005 }}</ref> and she, [[John Bell (Australian actor)|John Bell]] and [[Jon English]] were in a rock musical called ''The Bacchoi'', based on the story of [[Euripides]] and written by Bryan Nason and Ralph Tyrrell. It was the first show for the [[Nimrod Theatre Company]] in their new location at [[Belvoir St Theatre|Belvoir St]] in [[Surry Hills, New South Wales|Surry Hills]].<ref>{{cite book | author=Bell, John | title=John Bell : the time of my life | publisher=Allen and Unwin | year=2002 | isbn=1-74114-134-6}}</ref>


In 1972 Lewis performed songs, including the title track, for an Australian B-grade rock musical, science fiction-fantasy, film ''[[Shirley Thompson vs. the Aliens]]'',<ref name="McFarlane"/><ref name="Tharu Apr73"/><ref name="Hood">Hood, Robert (1994), [http://www.tabula-rasa.info/AusHorror/OzHorrorFilms1.html "Australian Horror Films, Part 1: ''Killer Koalas'': Australian (and New Zealand) Horror Films, a History"] Retrieved 6 January 2006.</ref> directed by [[Jim Sharman]].<ref name=Milesago/> It was described as, "loathed by underground art-house and commercial managements alike".{{citation needed|date=April 2018}} She worked on an "ill-fated rock opera", ''Terry and Frankie'', in 1972.<ref name="Kimball 3">{{cite web | archiveurl = https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20090314203800/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/35967/20090315-0738/www.milesago.com/artists/bird-johna-2.html | url = http://www.milesago.com/artists/bird-johna.htm | title = John A. Bird | last1 = Bird | first1 = John A | last2 = Turnbull | first2 = Simon | editor = Duncan Kimball | publisher = Milesago: Australasian Music and Popular Culture 1964–1975. Ice Productions | year = 2002 | archivedate = 14 March 2009 | accessdate = 19 April 2018 }}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> During November of that year she supported United States visitors, [[Buddy Guy]], [[Junior Wells]] and [[Arthur Crudup]].<ref name="Tharu Apr73"/>
In 1974, ''Looking Backwards To Tomorrow, In and Out of Concert'' was released and also performed on stage at the [[State Theatre (Sydney)|State Theatre]] in Sydney, and ''Tears of Steel & The Clowning Cavaleras'' was released in 1976 to go with a multi media production featuring song, theatre, dance and visuals.<ref name=Official /> In 1975 Lewis was awarded a grant from the [[Australia Council for the Arts]] to study overseas and spent two years in [[Central America|Central]] and South America. In 1979, with her band ''Jeannie Lewis and the Company She Keeps'' she created and performed a series of shows titled ''From Maroubra to Mexico''. Later that year she supported John McLaughlin on his Australian tour.<ref name=Milesago/> ''Krazy For You'' was the cabaret Jeannie devised and performed in 1979–80.<ref name=Official />

Lewis released her first album, ''Free Fall Through Featherless Flight'' (October 1973), via [[EMI]].<ref name="McFarlane"/><ref name="Tharu Sep73"/> It was recorded with Les Hodge producing and Michael Carlos on moog, organ and harpsichord (ex-Tully, Levi Smith's Clefs); Ken Firth on bass guitar (ex-Tully); Greg Henson on drums; [[Marcia Hines]] on backing vocals; Alan Lee on percussion; Jamie McKinley on piano; Mike Reid on guitar; Shayna Stewart on backing vocals (ex-Tully); Mike Wade on guitar; The Fidelio String Quartet and a wind section.<ref name="McFarlane"/> The cover art was designed by [[Martin Sharp]] – Lewis had sung at the opening of his art exhibition in April of that year.<ref name="Tharu Apr73">{{cite news | url = http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230397229 |title = Jeannie | last1 = Paul | last2 = Di | newspaper = [[Tharunka]] | volume = 19 | issue = 7 | date = 17 April 1973 | accessdate = 19 April 2018 | pages = 14–15 | via = National Library of Australia }} Note: includes photos of the artist.</ref><ref name="Tharu Sep73">{{cite news | url = http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230397656 | title = Jeannie's First Record | newspaper = Tharunka | volume = 19 | issue = 18 | date = 11 September 1973 | accessdate = 19 April 2018 | page = 10 | via = National Library of Australia}}</ref>

According to Australian musicologist, [[Ian McFarlane]], "[it] included a breathtaking array of material like Graham Lowndes' 'Till Time Brings Change', Gulliver Smith and Jeremy Noone's 'It's Up to You' and Billy Green's adaptation of the Dylan Thomas poem 'Do not Go Gentle'."<ref name="McFarlane"/> In 1974 it was awarded Best Female Vocal Album in the Australian Radio Record Awards.<ref name="Simmons"/><ref name="Chalmers">{{cite news | url = http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article55186639 | title = Blues Singer Jeannie Lewis Has Grant Will Travel | last = Chalmers | first = Gillian | newspaper = [[The Australian Women's Weekly]] | volume = 43 | issue = 23 | date = 5 November 1975 | accessdate = 20 April 2018 | page = 16 | via = National Library of Australia }} Note: includes a colour photo of the artist.</ref> Fellow singer-songwriter, [[Bob Hudson (singer)|Bob Hudson]], observed, "her appeal lies in the fact that when she is singing, what's happening up there on stage is for you, the audience, and you can feel it. She bleeds for the people she's singing to — she expresses the human condition."<ref name="Chalmers"/>

Lewis was appointed to the Music Board of the [[Australia Council for the Arts]] in February 1973.<ref name="Aus Counc">{{cite web | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20050718145826/http://www.whitlam.org/collection/1973/19730216_Aus_Council_Arts/ | url = http://www.whitlam.org/collection/1973/19730216_Aus_Council_Arts/ |title = The Whitlam Collection: Australian Council for the Arts, Press statement No. 54 | publisher = The Whitlam Institute. [[Western Sydney University|University of Western Sydney]] | archivedate = 18 July 2005 | date = 16 February 1973 | accessdate = 21 April 2018 }}</ref> With [[John Bell (Australian actor)|John Bell]] and [[Jon English]], she worked in a rock musical, ''[[The Bacchoi]]'', written by Bryan Nason and Ralph Tyrrell based on the story of [[Euripides]]. It was the first show for the [[Nimrod Theatre Company]] at [[Belvoir St Theatre|Belvoir St]] in [[Surry Hills, New South Wales|Surry Hills]].<ref name="Bell">{{cite book | author = Bell, John | title = John Bell: the Time of My Life | publisher = Allen and Unwin | year = 2002 | isbn = 1-74114-134-6 }}</ref>

In 1974 a live album, ''Looking Backwards to Tomorrow, in and out of Concert'', was released and performed on stage at the [[State Theatre (Sydney)|State Theatre]] in Sydney. McFarlane described how it features, "[her] renditions of songs by Ray Davies ('Celluloid Heroes'), Dory Previn ('Scared to Be Alone'), Stephen Sondheim ('Ladies Who Lunch'), [[Graham Lowndes]] ('The House Is Burning') and the Rev. Gary Davies ('Cocaine Blues' with backing provided by the Foreday Riders)."<ref name="McFarlane"/>

Her next album, ''Tears of Steel & The Clowning Cavaleras'' was a double album released in 1976 to go with a multi-media performance featuring song, theatre, dance and visuals, which had premiered at the York Theatre, [[Seymour Centre]] in the preceding November.<ref name="Chalmers"/> The project was partly inspired by [[Pablo Neruda]]'s poem, "Tears of Steel"<!-- not short film -->, and the Mexican celebration, [[Day of the Dead]], which includes the use of [[calavera]]s – mock skeletons paraded through the streets.<ref name="McFarlane"/><ref name="Chalmers"/> Alongside Lewis in the show were Carlos, Reid, Dave Ellis, Roger Frampton, Phillip Godden, Mike McGurk and John Sangster.<ref name="Chalmers"/> It was produced and directed by Ted Robinson with Sharp designing the sets.<ref name="Chalmers"/>

In 1975 Lewis was awarded a study grant of {{dollarsign|AUD}}8000 from the Australia Council for the Arts to travel overseas from February 1976;<ref name="Chalmers"/> she spent almost three years in [[Central America|Central]] and South America and returned late in 1978.<ref name="McFarlane"/><ref name="Simmons"/> She later explained to Clive Simmons of ''The Canberra Times'', how she was, "shocked and appalled by the grinding poverty she saw there, and by the cruelty and barbarity of the military dictatorships which governed those nations. By the time she returned, she had been radicalised by the experience."<ref name="Simmons"/>

In 1979 with her band, Jeannie Lewis and the Company She Keeps, she created and performed a series of shows: ''From Maroubra to Mexico''.<ref name="Ross">{{cite news | url = http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230420614 | title = Jeannie Lewis | last = Ross | first = Peter | newspaper = Tharunka | volume = 25 | issue = 14 | date = 11 June 1979 | accessdate = 20 April 2018 | page = 19 | via = National Library of Australia}} Note: includes photos of the artist.</ref> Peter Ross of ''[[Tharunka]]'' observed, "she had full houses at the Kirk for her show. ''From Maroubra to Mexico, the Multinational Stomp''. At these concerts she revealed a renewed dedication to
social and political change."<ref name="Ross"/> In July of that year she supported [[John McLaughlin (musician)|John McLaughlin]] on his Australian tour.<ref name="McFarlane"/><ref name=Milesago/> Lewis devised a cabaret show, ''Krazy for You'', using material by [[Noël Coward]], [[Nick Lowe]], and [[Bruce Springsteen]],<ref name="McFarlane"/> which she performed during 1979–80.<ref name="AusStage List">{{cite web | url = https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/2385 | title = Contributor: Jeannie Lewis | work = [[AusStage]] | accessdate = 20 April 2018 }}</ref>


==1980s==
==1980s==
''Till Time Brings Change'' came out in 1980, and Lewis appeared in the leading role of ''Piaf'' at the [[Comedy Theatre, Melbourne|Comedy Theatre]] in [[Melbourne]].<ref name=Official /> 1981 saw Lewis perform in a stage production of ''[[The Threepenny Opera]]'' as a world weary hooker with the [[State Theatre Company of South Australia|South Australian Theatre Company]]. She also created and starred in ''Piaf, The Songs and the Story'' which included 4 national tours, with an album of 15 songs from the show being released in 1982. Also in 1982 Lewis created and performed ''For a Dancer'' about her mothers life. This premiered at the [[Adelaide Festival of Arts|Adelaide Festival]].<ref name=Official />


Lewis issued a compilation album, ''Till Time Brings Change'', in 1980. She appeared in the title role of ''Piaf'' at the [[Comedy Theatre, Melbourne|Comedy Theatre]], Melbourne in September.<ref name="McFarlane"/><ref name="AusStage List"/><ref name="Zakharov">{{cite news | url = http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article120909514 | title = Stage: Edith Piaf's Songs Brought Alive by a 'Little Budgie' | last = Zakharov | first = Jeannie | newspaper = The Canberra Times. Good Times | volume = 63 | issue = 19,483 | date = 9 February 1989 | accessdate = 22 April 2018 | page = 28 | via = National Library of Australia }}</ref> In November 1981 Lewis took the role of Low Dive Jenny, a world weary hooker, in the [[State Theatre Company of South Australia]]'s production of Brecht's ''[[The Threepenny Opera]]''.<ref name="Healey"/> ''[[The Canberra Times]]''{{'}} theatre critic, Ken Healey observed, "the best way to describe, and praise, the singing is to recall that [Lewis] was the best but not the only singer on stage. There was never a moment when one felt that here was a singer acting while beside her were actors singing."<ref name="Healey">{{cite news | url = http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article126861759 | title = The Message Makes Brecht Memorable | last = Healey | first = Ken | newspaper = The Canberra Times | volume = 56 | issue = 16,865 | date = 29 November 1981 | accessdate = 20 April 2018 | page = 8 | via = National Library of Australia }}</ref>
In 1982 Lewis was supporting and performing at the Honeymoon Uranium mine rally at Broken Hill.<ref>Ellis, John Brant, [http://www.pictureaustralia.org/apps/pictureaustralia?action=PADisplay&mode=display&rs=resultset-44923&no=2 ''Jeannie Lewis at the Honeymoon uranium mine rally, May 1982'']. Retrieved from the [[Picture Australia]] Archive 6 January 2006.</ref> 1983 saw Lewis presenting her new show ''So You Want Blood'' and releasing the album of the same name in September, and in 1984 she appeared in Ta Paratragouda in Melbourne and at the [[Athens Festival]]. Also in 1984 Lewis appeared in ''Carmen, Another Perspective'' with the [[Melbourne Theatre Company]].<ref name=Official /> In 1984 Lewis performed Ta Paratragouda in Melbourne. This was recorded for SBS and Greek TV.<ref name=Official />


She devised, with [[John Derum]], ''Piaf, the Songs and the Story'', which premiered at the [[Princess Theatre (Melbourne)|Princess Theatre]], Melbourne in February 1982.<ref name="McFarlane"/><ref name="AusStage List"/><ref name="Zakharov"/> Again, she took the title role.<ref name="Zakharov"/> It included four national tours, with an associated soundtrack album released in that year. Also in 1982 Lewis created and performed ''For a Dancer'' about her mother's life;<ref name="Simmons"/> it premiered at the [[Adelaide Festival of Arts|Adelaide Festival]]. Ethel had been diagnosed with [[Alzheimer's disease]] and Lewis "would sing the golden oldies to her — what I call the left-wing hit parade — in the hope that they would bring her something."<ref name="Simmons"/>
Lewis travelled overseas in 1987, representing Australia on a tour of [[Mexico]] with ''The Necks'' for the Cervantes International Arts Festival with later became a one-hour SBS TV documentary called ''Maroubra to Mexico''. She also sang in the [[Paul Robeson]] stage show ''Deep Bells Ring'' and performed ''Pilgrimages'', for which she wrote the text and [[Jim Cotter (composer)|Jim Cotter]] wrote the music, dedicated to a friend with AIDS.<ref name=Official />

In May 1982 Lewis supported and performed at an anti-mining rally in Broken Hill against the proposed the [[Honeymoon Uranium Mine]].<ref name="Ellis">Ellis, John Brant, [http://www.pictureaustralia.org/apps/pictureaustralia?action=PADisplay&mode=display&rs=resultset-44923&no=2 ''Jeannie Lewis at the Honeymoon uranium mine rally, May 1982'']. Retrieved from the [[Picture Australia]] Archive 6 January 2006.</ref> She presented a new show, ''So You Want Blood'', in 1983 and released an album of the same name in September. In the following year she appeared in ''Ta Paratragouda'' at the [[Athens Festival]], Melbourne.<ref name=Milesago/> From April to May 1984 she was in ''Carmen, Another Perspective'' with the [[Melbourne Theatre Company]] at the [[Russell Street Theatre]].<ref name="AusStage List"/> She performed ''Ta Paratragouda'' in Melbourne, again, which was recorded for [[SBS (Australian TV channel)|SBS]] and Greek TV.<ref name=Official >[http://www.jeannielewis.com ''Jeannie Lewis'' Official Website] Retrieved 6 January 2006.</ref>

Lewis travelled overseas in 1987, representing Australia on a tour of [[Mexico]] with The Necks for the Cervantes International Arts Festival; it later became a one-hour SBS TV documentary, ''Maroubra to Mexico''. She also sang in [[Paul Robeson]]'s stage show, ''Deep Bells Ring'' and performed ''Pilgrimages'', for which she wrote the text and [[Jim Cotter (composer)|Jim Cotter]] wrote the music, dedicated to a friend with AIDS.<ref name=Official />


==1990s==
==1990s==
Lewis had a new show, ''Voxy Lady'' at the [[Adelaide Festival of Arts|Adelaide Festival]] in 1990. This was directed by Llew Kiek and Jeannie wrote most of the show herself.<ref name=Official /> One of the songs from this show, ''Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow'' later appeared on her 2003 CD ''Southheart''. "A female quintet which includes [[Margret RoadKnight]] and Jeannie Lewis provides an aural chorus drawing upon a history of music ranging from Hildegard Von Bingen to Cambodian folk songs". This was the description in the [[Green Left Weekly]] of part of ''People Like Us'' at the Seymour Centre in March 1991. Directed by Mara Kiek.<ref name=greenleft>(1991). [http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/1991/04/04p21.htm ''Celebrating cultural diversity'']. Retrieved 18 February 2006.</ref>


Lewis had a new show, ''Voxy Lady'', at the Adelaide Festival in 1990; it had Llew Kiek as musical director, Lois Ellis as stage director.<ref name="NLA Voxy">{{cite web | author1 = Lewis, Jeannie | author2 = Ellis, Lois | author3 = Kiek, Llew | author4 = Kadogo, Aku | author5 = Cooper, Melody | title = ''Voxy Lady'' (theatre program) | year = 1990 | publisher = [[Adelaide Festival of Arts|Adelaide Festival]] | publication-date = 1990 | url = https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/198254898 | accessdate = 22 April 2018 }}</ref> One of its songs, "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow", later appeared on her 2003 CD, ''SouthHeart''. The ''[[Green Left Weekly]]''{{'}}s Angela Matheson described the next project, ''People Like Us'', at the Seymour Centre in March 1991: "A female quintet which includes [[Margret RoadKnight]] and Jeannie Lewis provides an aural chorus drawing upon a history of music ranging from Hildegard Von Bingen to Cambodian folk songs". It was directed by Peter Kingston with musical direction by Mara Kiek.<ref name=greenleft>{{cite news | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20030914002632/https://www.greenleft.org.au/back/1991/04/04p21.htm | date = 4 April 1991 | url = http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/1991/04/04p21.htm | title = Celebrating Cultural Diversity: ''People Like Us'' | last = Matheson | first = Angela | work = [[Green Left Weekly]] | archivedate = 14 September 2003 | accessdate = 22 April 2018 }}</ref>
In 1992 Lewis devised her own cabaret of contemporary love songs named ''Dangerous Lovers''<ref name=Official /> and in 1993 she sang ''The Plains of Emu'' on the album of Australian songs and Australian artists, ''Going Home''.<ref>{{cite web|year=1993|url=http://hem.passagen.se/honga/database/comp/goinghome.html|work=[[Australian Rock Database]]|title=''Going Home – Australian Artists, Australian Songs''|accessdate=18 February 2006}}</ref> Also in 1993 she received an [[Australia Council for the Arts]] Grant for study of Extended Voice Techniques at Roy Hart International Theatre Centre in France and the tango in its sung form in [[Buenos Aires]].<ref name=Official />


In 1992 Lewis devised a cabaret of contemporary love songs, ''Dangerous Lovers''.<ref name=Official /> In the following year she sang a track, "The Plains of Emu", on a various artists' album, ''Going Home – Australian Artists, Australian Songs'', for ABC Records.<ref name="Holmgren">{{cite web | year = 1993 | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20130930073157/http://hem.passagen.se/honga/database/comp/goinghome.html | url = http://hem.passagen.se/honga/database/comp/goinghome.html | work = hem.passagen.se | publisher = [[Australian Rock Database]] | title = ''Going Home – Australian Artists, Australian Songs'' | last = Holmgren | first = Magnus | archivedate = 30 September 2013 | accessdate = 21 April 2018 }}</ref> Also in 1993 she received an Australia Council for the Arts Grant to study Extended Voice Techniques at Roy Hart International Theatre Centre in France and the tango in its sung form in [[Buenos Aires]].<ref name=Official />
Lewis performed in the [[Sydney Opera House]] 1995 season of ''Cinderella Acappella'', a collection of amusing children's songs written by [[Shortis and Simpson|John Shortis]]. It was recorded as a CD which was released and shortlisted for an [[Australian Recording Industry Association|ARIA]] music award in 1995.<ref>(1994). [http://shortisandsimpson.com/shop.htm ''Shortis and Simpson'']. Retrieved 18 February 2006.</ref> Also in 1995 Lewis performed in "''Viva Diva'', a series of concerts featuring original work and music from around the world ([[Greece]], Tibet, Beijing, South Africa, [[Argentina]], the [[Netherlands]], Corsica, France). Lead to the formation of Tango Australis –the group formed following the concerts and 1998 CD of the same name."<ref name=Official />


Lewis performed alongside Margret RoadKnight, Moya Simpson (of [[Shortis and Simpson]]) and Blair Greenberg,<ref name="McFarlane"/> at the [[Sydney Opera House]] for the 1995 season of ''Cinderella Acappella'', which is a collection of children's songs, written by Simpson's partner, John Shortis. It was recorded as an album by a group of the [[Cinderella Acappella|same name]] and was released in 1994.<ref name="McFarlane"/> It was nominated for the [[ARIA Award for Best Children's Album]] in [[ARIA Music Awards of 1995|1995]].<ref name="ARIA1995">{{cite web | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070926235646/http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history-by-year.php?year=1995 | url = http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history/year/1995 | title = Winners by Year 1995 | publisher = [[Australian Recording Industry Association]] (ARIA) | archivedate = 26 September 2007 | accessdate = 23 April 2018 }}</ref><ref name="Shortis site">(1994). [http://shortisandsimpson.com/shop.htm ''Shortis and Simpson''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050907091630/http://www.shortisandsimpson.com/shop.htm |date=7 September 2005 }}. Retrieved 18 February 2006.</ref> Also in 1995 the singer performed in, ''Viva Diva'', a series of concerts featuring original work and music from [[Greece]], Tibet, Beijing, South Africa, [[Argentina]], the [[Netherlands]], Corsica and France. She released an album, ''Tango Australis'', in 1998, which is based on her concert program of that name.<ref name="NLA Tango">{{citation | author1 = Lewis, Jeannie | title = Tango Australis | date = 2000 | publisher = Sole Music | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/32376329 | accessdate=22 April 2018 }}</ref>
In 1997 Lewis was awarded a fellowship at [[Varuna, The Writers' House]],<ref name=Official /> and performed with ''Women in Voice 7'' in [[Brisbane]].<ref>(1997). [http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/1997/283/283p27b.htm ''Journey of emotions'']. Retrieved 25 February 2006.</ref> In 1998 Jeannie performed at the Homeless Women's Speakout at the YWCA,<ref>[http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/39933/20040202/www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/cpd.nsf/pages/VAW_0998.html ''Violence Against Women Information Bulletin – September 1998'']. Retrieved from the National Library of Australia, Pandora Archive, 6 January 2006.</ref> and in the Port Fairy Folk Festival,<ref name=Hennessy/> and in "''Life, Love, Death and the Weather'' – a collaboration with dancers Chrissie Koltai, Anka Frankenhauser, Patrick Harding-Irmer, musician Steve Blau, performed at the Performance Space as part of Dance Week."<ref name=Official /> ''Tango Australia'' formed and the CD of the same name was released.<ref name=Official /> ''Architect's Desk'' and ''The Wig of Larks – The Bag Lady Calls The Tune'' were performances from 1999<ref name=Official /> and "In November 1999 Lewis collaborated with flamenco dancer Veronica Gillmer on the production ''Camerino'', at Sydney's Tom Mann Theatre."<ref name=Milesago/>

Lewis performed with Annie Deller-Peterson, Leah Cotterell, Bronwyn Calcutt, Katrina Alberts and Alison St Ledger, in ''Women in Voice 7'' in [[Brisbane]] in July 1997.<ref name="Hansen 1">{{cite news | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20031227033532/http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/1997/283/283p27b.htm | url = http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/1997/283/283p27b.htm | title = Journey of emotions | last = Hansen | first = Lynda | work = Green Left Weekly | archivedate = 27 December 2003 | year = 1997 | accessdate = 23 April 2018 | url-status = dead | df = dmy-all }}</ref> Lynda Hansen of ''Green Left Weekly'' described her as, "a long-time international performer and writer, delighted the crowd with excerpts from her new show ''The Baglady Hits Out''."<ref name="Hansen 1"/> In September of that year she was awarded a fellowship at [[Varuna, The Writers' House]], "to work on a performance script."<ref name="Varuna 97">{{cite web | archiveurl = https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20041025140000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/41136/20041026-0000/www.varuna.com.au/histar97.html | url = http://www.varuna.com.au/histar97.html | title = Varuna in 1997 – Highlights | publisher = [[Varuna, The Writers' House]] | archivedate = 25 October 2004 | date = 14 August 1999 | accessdate = 23 April 2018 }}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

In 1998 Lewis performed at the Homeless Women's Speakout at the YWCA,<ref name="Lawlink">{{cite news | url = http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/cpd.nsf/pages/VAW_0998.html | archive-url = https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20040201130000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/39933/20040202/www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/cpd.nsf/pages/VAW_0998.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = 2004-02-01 | title = NSW Strategy to Reduce Violence Against Women | work = Violence Against Women Information Bulletin | date = September 1998 | volume = 2 | issue = 3 | via = National Library of Australia | accessdate = 23 April 2018 }}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> and in the Port Fairy Folk Festival,<ref name=Hennessy/> She appeared in "''Life, Love, Death and the Weather'' – a collaboration with dancers Chrissie Koltai, Anka Frankenhauser, Patrick Harding-Irmer, musician Steve Blau, performed at the Performance Space as part of Dance Week."<ref name=Official /> ''Architect's Desk'' and ''The Wig of Larks – The Bag Lady Calls The Tune'' were performances from the following year.<ref name=Official /> "In November 1999 Lewis collaborated with flamenco dancer Veronica Gillmer on the production ''Camerino'', at Sydney's Tom Mann Theatre."<ref name=Milesago/>


==2000s==
==2000s==

''One Word We'' was staged for a second time, opening on 8 January 2000, with Lewis as one of the seven singers. It was originally performed in 1995. By Maurie Mulheron, covering the songs and life of [[Pete Seeger]]. It was performed at the [[New Theatre (Newtown)|New Theatre]] at [[Newtown, New South Wales|Newtown]] and later, in 2001 at the Woodford Folk Festival. A CD with the same name has been produced and it is said that the show was being edited for a documentary.<ref name=Official /><ref>(2000). [http://folkstream.com/muse/onewordwe/ ''New Theatre presents One Word.... We'']. Retrieved 20 May 2006.</ref>
''One Word We'' was staged for a second time, opening on 8 January 2000, with Lewis as one of the seven singers. It was originally performed in 1995. By Maurie Mulheron, covering the songs and life of [[Pete Seeger]]. It was performed at the [[New Theatre (Newtown)|New Theatre]] at [[Newtown, New South Wales|Newtown]] and later, in 2001 at the Woodford Folk Festival. A CD with the same name has been produced and it is said that the show was being edited for a documentary.<ref name=Official /><ref>(2000). [http://folkstream.com/muse/onewordwe/ ''New Theatre presents One Word.... We'']. Retrieved 20 May 2006.</ref>


''The Palais, a building sings of lives lived in music'' was at the [[Parramatta, New South Wales|Parramatta]] Town Hall, 27–30 July 2000. The show involved more than fifty performers in more than 20 acts and was spread through most of the building. Urban Theatre Projects produced the show.<ref>(2000). [http://workers.labor.net.au/61/d_review_urban.html ''A Building Sings of Lives Lived in Music'' by Megan Elliot]. Retrieved 27 May 2006.</ref> Lewis also performed in the ''[[East Timor]] Year One Celebration'' to mark and celebrate the first anniversary of [[East Timor]]'s historic U.N. Referendum on self-determination at [[Leichhardt, New South Wales|Leichhardt]] on 30 August 2000.<ref>[http://workers.labor.net.au/67/news95_timor.html "East Timor's Year One Celebration". ''Workers Online'' No. 67, 2000] Retrieved 5 January 2006</ref>
''The Palais, a building sings of lives lived in music'' was at the [[Parramatta, New South Wales|Parramatta]] Town Hall, 27–30 July 2000. The show involved more than fifty performers in more than 20 acts and was spread through most of the building. Urban Theatre Projects produced the show.<ref>(2000). [http://workers.labor.net.au/61/d_review_urban.html ''A Building Sings of Lives Lived in Music'' by Megan Elliot]. Retrieved 27 May 2006.</ref> Lewis also performed in the ''[[East Timor]] Year One Celebration'' to mark and celebrate the first anniversary of [[East Timor]]'s historic U.N. Referendum on self-determination at [[Leichhardt, New South Wales|Leichhardt]] on 30 August 2000.<ref>[http://workers.labor.net.au/67/news95_timor.html "East Timor's Year One Celebration". ''Workers Online'' No. 67, 2000] Retrieved 5 January 2006</ref>


In May 2001 she received an $80,000 Fellowship grant from the Australia Council, which she used to create Southheart.<ref name=Milesago /> "All this SOUThHEART thing began with me wondering why the lyrics of so many tangos refer to the south. The [[Tango music|tango]] which inspired it, this delving into the bottom of my heart, was Corazon al Sur – Heart to the South. --That song from the south of [[Argentina]], that south talks to me so much of this south and the shadow of my mother in the garden in [[Maroubra, New South Wales|Maroubra]]."<ref name=Official /> Lewis was a part of the East Timor Independence Day Celebrations in 2002.<ref>[http://workers.labor.net.au/136/news96_activist.html "Activists Notebook". ''Workers Online'' No. 136, 2003] Retrieved 5 January 2006</ref> Performing in the Trade Union Concert in 2003.<ref>[http://workers.labor.net.au/features/200303/d_review_folk.html "Singing For The People" ''Workers Online'' March 2003] Retrieved 5 January 2006</ref> Performing in a tribute to Timorese women concert in 2004.<ref>(2004). [http://www.alolafoundation.org/cal2.php Alola Foundation Calendar, ''The Kirsty Sword ALOLA FOUNDATION Benefit'']. Retrieved 6 January 2006.</ref> Also in 2004 being part of the May Day music festival in South Australia.<ref>(2004). [http://www.lhmu.org.au/sa/news/1082074560_17760.html LHMU SA, ''SA members: May Day music festival'']. Retrieved 6 January 2006.</ref>
In May 2001 she received an $80,000 Fellowship grant from the Australia Council, which she used to create Southheart.<ref name=Milesago /> "All this SOUThHEART thing began with me wondering why the lyrics of so many tangos refer to the south. The [[Tango music|tango]] which inspired it, this delving into the bottom of my heart, was Corazon al Sur – Heart to the South. --That song from the south of [[Argentina]], that south talks to me so much of this south and the shadow of my mother in the garden in [[Maroubra, New South Wales|Maroubra]]."<ref name=Official /> Lewis was a part of the East Timor Independence Day Celebrations in 2002.<ref>[http://workers.labor.net.au/136/news96_activist.html "Activists Notebook". ''Workers Online'' No. 136, 2003] Retrieved 5 January 2006</ref> She performed in the Trade Union Concert in 2003<ref>[http://workers.labor.net.au/features/200303/d_review_folk.html "Singing For The People" ''Workers Online'' March 2003] Retrieved 5 January 2006</ref> and in a tribute to Timorese women concert, in 2004.<ref>(2004). [http://www.alolafoundation.org/cal2.php Alola Foundation Calendar, ''The Kirsty Sword ALOLA FOUNDATION Benefit''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051216171022/http://www.alolafoundation.org/cal2.php |date=16 December 2005 }}. Retrieved 6 January 2006.</ref> Also in 2004 being part of the May Day music festival in South Australia.<ref>(2004). [http://www.lhmu.org.au/sa/news/1082074560_17760.html LHMU SA, ''SA members: May Day music festival''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060113051753/http://lhmu.org.au/sa/news/1082074560_17760.html |date=13 January 2006 }}. Retrieved 6 January 2006.</ref>

In 2009 Jeannie Lewis gave the Seventeenth Annual Bell Jazz Lecture.


== Discography ==
== Discography ==
===Studio albums===
*''Free Fall Through Featherless Flight'', 1973
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" border="1"
*''Looking Backwards To Tomorrow, In and Out of Concert'', 1974
! scope="col" rowspan="2" | Title
*''Tears of Steel & The Clowning Cavaleras'', 1975
! scope="col" rowspan="2" | Details
*''Till Time Brings Change'', 1980
! scope="col" colspan="1" | Peak chart positions
*''Piaf, the Songs and the Story'', 1982
|-
*''So You Want Blood'', 1983
! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" | [[Kent Music Report|AUS]]<br><ref name=aus>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|authorlink=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=177}}</ref>
*''Tango Australis'', 1998
|-
*''SOUThHEART'', 2003
! scope="row"| ''Free Fall Through Featherless Flight''
|
* Released: October 1973
* Label: [[EMI Music|EMI]] <small>( EMC 2505)</small>
* Format: LP
| —
|-
! scope="row"| ''Tears of Steel & the Clowning Cavaleras''
|
* Released: May 1976
* Label: [[EMI Music|EMI]] <small>(EME.1001/2)</small>
* Format: 2xLP
| 82
|-
! scope="row"| ''Piaf - The Songs and the Story''
|
* Released: 1982
* Label: [[Warner Music Australia|WEA]] <small>(600114)</small>
* Format: LP, CS
| —
|-
! scope="row"| ''So U Want Blood''
|
* Released: 1983
* Label: Larrikin Records <small>(LRF134)</small>
* Format: LP, CS
| —
|-
! scope="row"| ''Tango Australis''
|
* Released: 1998
* Label: Sole Music <small>(SOLE 2)</small>
* Format: CD
| —
|-
! scope="row"| ''Women 'n Blues'' <br> {{small|(with [[Wendy Saddington]], Kate Dunbar, [[Margret RoadKnight]] and Sally King)}}
|
* Released: 2003
* Label: Full House Records <small>(FHR 021)</small>
* Format: CD
| —
|-
! scope="row"| ''South Heart''
|
* Released: 2003
* Format: 2x CD
| —
|}


== Singles ==
===Live albums===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" border="1"
*''Celluloid Heroes / Rocelli Kaharunta'', 1975
! scope="col" rowspan="2" | Title
! scope="col" rowspan="2" | Details
! scope="col" colspan="1" | Peak chart positions
|-
! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" | [[Kent Music Report|AUS]]<br><ref name=aus/>
|-
! scope="row"| ''Looking Backwards to Tomorrow, in and out of Concert''
|
* Released: November 1974
* Label: EMA <small>( 307)</small>
* Format: LP
| 50
|}


===Compilation albums===
== Compilations and appearances ==
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" border="1"
*''Folk Concert On Campus'' (as Jean Lewis), 1965
! scope="col" rowspan="1" | Title
! scope="col" rowspan="1" | Details
|-
! scope="row"| ''Till Time Brings Change''
|
* Released: 1980
* Label: EMI
* Format: LP
|}

=== Other appearances ===

*''Folk Concert on Campus'' (as Jean Lewis), 1965
*''Spectrum'', Ray Price Jazz Quintet, 1971
*''Spectrum'', Ray Price Jazz Quintet, 1971
*''Three Floors Down'', 1972
*''Three Floors Down'', 1972
*''Gallery Concerts, The Alan Lee Quartet & Friends'', 1973
*''Gallery Concerts, the Alan Lee Quartet & Friends'', 1973
*''Going Home : Australian artists, Australian songs'', 1993
*''Going Home : Australian artists, Australian songs'', 1993
*''Cinderella Acappella'', 1994
*''Cinderella Acappella'', 1994
Line 79: Line 213:
*''Green Songs'', 2001
*''Green Songs'', 2001
*''The Good Old Bad Old Days, Sydney Jazz Club Golden Jubilee 1953–2003'', 2003
*''The Good Old Bad Old Days, Sydney Jazz Club Golden Jubilee 1953–2003'', 2003
*''Women 'n Blues'', 2003
*''Azadi: Songs of Liberation'', 2005

*''Azadi : Songs of Liberation'', 2005
==Awards and nominations==
===Australian Women in Music Awards===
The [[Australian Women in Music Awards]] is an annual event that celebrates outstanding women in the [[Music of Australia|Australian Music Industry]] who have made significant and lasting contributions in their chosen field. They commenced in 2018.

{{awards table}}
! {{Abbr|Ref.|Reference}}
|-
| [[2023 Australian Women in Music Awards|2023]]
| Jeannie Lewis
| Lifetime Achievement Award
| {{yes2|awarded}}
|<ref name="finalists">{{cite web|url=https://musicfeeds.com.au/news/2023-australian-women-in-music-awards-finalists/|title=Finalists Announced for the 2023 Australian Women in Music Awards|website=[[Music Feeds]]|date=18 July 2023|access-date=18 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="2023AWMA wins">{{cite web|url=https://musicfeeds.com.au/news/australian-women-in-music-awards-2023-winners-announced/#:~:text=Among%20the%20highlights%20of%20the,scooped%20the%20big%20Songwriter%20Award.|title=Australian Women In Music Awards 2023 Winners Announced |website=[[Music Feeds]]|date= 28 September 2023|access-date=1 October 2023}}</ref>
{{end}}


== References ==
== References ==

{{Reflist|2}}
{{Refbegin}}
;General
* {{Cite encyclopedia | last = McFarlane | first = Ian | authorlink = Ian McFarlane | encyclopedia = [[Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop]] | title = Whammo Homepage | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20040405231007/http://www.whammo.com.au/index.asp | url = http://www.whammo.com.au/index.asp | archivedate = 5 April 2004 | accessdate = 3 October 2013 | year = 1999 | publisher = [[Allen & Unwin]] | location = [[St Leonards, New South Wales|St Leonards, NSW]] | isbn = 1-86508-072-1 }} Note: Archived [on-line] copy has limited functionality.
;Specific
{{Refend}}
{{Reflist}}


== External links ==
== External links ==

*[http://www.jeannielewis.com/ Official website]
* {{Official website|jeannielewis.com/}}
*[http://www4.tpgi.com.au/juls2/Jeannie.htm "Jeannie Lewis on the net" webpages]
*[http://www4.tpgi.com.au/juls2/Jeannie.htm "Jeannie Lewis on the net" webpages]
*[http://www.middle8.com/ Middle Eight Music] (available recordings)
*[http://www.middle8.com/ Middle Eight Music] (available recordings)
*[http://www.milesago.com/artists/Jeannie.htm Milesago entry for Lewis]
*[http://musicmoz.org/Bands_and_Artists/L/Lewis,_Jeannie/ Musicmoz entry for Lewis]
*[http://musicmoz.org/Bands_and_Artists/L/Lewis,_Jeannie/ Musicmoz entry for Lewis]
*Seventeenth Annual Bell Jazz Lecture https://static1.squarespace.com/enwiki/static/58bf64e6c534a5e3ac61401d/t/59142212579fb3f1c4cf5adc/1494491714772/2009_Doubly_Gifted_Annual_Bell_Jazz_Lecture.pdf
*The Heart of Jeannie Lewis https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/archived/intothemusic/the-heart-of-jeannie-lewis/3665318#transcript


{{Authority control}}
{{Authority control}}
Line 97: Line 252:
[[Category:1945 births]]
[[Category:1945 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Australian female singers]]
[[Category:Australian women singers]]
[[Category:Musicians from Sydney]]
[[Category:Australian folk singers]]
[[Category:Australian folk singers]]
[[Category:Mainstream Records artists]]
[[Category:Mainstream Records artists]]
[[Category:Singers from Sydney]]
[[Category:People educated at Sydney Girls High School]]
[[Category:Australian women folk singers]]

Latest revision as of 21:59, 21 April 2024

Jeannie Lewis
Birth nameJean Ethel Lewis
Born (1945-01-08) 8 January 1945 (age 79)
OriginSydney, New South Wales, Australia
Genres
  • Jazz
  • folk
  • Latin
  • blues
  • opera
  • rock
  • fusion
OccupationsMusician
Instruments
  • Vocals
  • guitar
Years active1964–present
Labels
Websitejeannielewis.com

Jean Ethel "Jeannie" Lewis (born 8 January 1945) is an Australian musician and stage performer whose work covers many different styles such as folk, jazz, Latin, blues, opera, rock and fusion.[1] Her music often includes a strong social consciousness and political statements.[2] Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, described her as "one of the most enigmatic and expressive, yet underrated singers Australia has ever produced... Always able to adapt her emotional and dramatic voice to suit a range of moods and styles."[1]

Early life

[edit]

Jean Ethel Lewis was born in 1945 as the only daughter of Samuel Phineas Lewis (1901–1976), a school teacher and trade union official, and Ethel Caroline (née Teerman, c. 1908–1985), also a school teacher.[3][4][5] She later recalled, "I grew up with left-wing parents who were not only good human beings, but whose dreams were about quality for everyone."[5] She attended Sydney Girls High School[6] and studied at the University of Sydney.[7] She started "on a teaching scholarship, majoring in French and modern history."[5]

Instead of teaching Lewis worked an office job and began her musical career in the 1960s in Sydney. She was a member of the York Gospel Singers alongside Alison MacCallum.[5][8] and the Radiation Quartet.[9] She sang with the Ray Price Jazz Quintet, the Nat Oliver Jazz Band and the Alan Lee Jazz Quintet.[1][2] She was a member of the Sydney University Organising Committee for Action on Aboriginal Rights to organise action around National Aborigines Day on 8 July 1964.

She was arrested in a demonstration in May 1964 at Wynyard, and helped arrange folk singers for a concert in Hyde Park to raise funds for the Freedom Ride, as well as appearing in another fund-raising concert at Paddington Town Hall.[7] She represented Australia at the International Festival of Contemporary Song in Cuba in 1967.[5][10][11] Lewis was one of 67 demonstrators fined for "obstructing traffic", in May 1968 while protesting against conscription during the Vietnam War, out front of the Prime Minister's Lodge.[12]

1970s

[edit]

In February 1970 Lewis sang with progressive rockers, Tully, in a performance, Love 200, which used two vocalists, a light show by Roger Foley-Fogg a.k.a. Ellis D Fogg and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.[2][11] Created by Peter Sculthorpe,[11] it was written to commemorate the bicentenary of Captain Cook's journey to plot the transit of Venus in 1770, which led to his "discovery" of Australia's east coast by the British explorer.[2] Lewis, on lead vocals, was a member of a band, Gypsy Train, later in 1970;[1][2] fellow members were Bobby Gebert on piano, John Helman on bass guitar (ex-Levi Smith's Clefs), Daryl McKenzie on drums, Kydric Shaw on guitar and Terry Wilson on vocals (of Tully).[1]

In March 1972 Love 200 was staged in Adelaide, where Lewis performed with Fraternity, fronted by Bon Scott, and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.[13] She recorded vocals for the Ray Price Jazz Quintet album, Spectrum (1971).[1][2] In April of that year she performed in the Timeless Trip as part of the Fairlight Festival, near Mittagong, with eight other performers.[14] She had to provide an acoustic set as the sound gear was not yet installed by the festival's organisers.[14]

In 1972 Lewis performed songs, including the title track, for an Australian B-grade rock musical, science fiction-fantasy, film Shirley Thompson vs. the Aliens,[1][11][15] directed by Jim Sharman.[2] It was described as, "loathed by underground art-house and commercial managements alike".[citation needed] She worked on an "ill-fated rock opera", Terry and Frankie, in 1972.[16] During November of that year she supported United States visitors, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells and Arthur Crudup.[11]

Lewis released her first album, Free Fall Through Featherless Flight (October 1973), via EMI.[1][17] It was recorded with Les Hodge producing and Michael Carlos on moog, organ and harpsichord (ex-Tully, Levi Smith's Clefs); Ken Firth on bass guitar (ex-Tully); Greg Henson on drums; Marcia Hines on backing vocals; Alan Lee on percussion; Jamie McKinley on piano; Mike Reid on guitar; Shayna Stewart on backing vocals (ex-Tully); Mike Wade on guitar; The Fidelio String Quartet and a wind section.[1] The cover art was designed by Martin Sharp – Lewis had sung at the opening of his art exhibition in April of that year.[11][17]

According to Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, "[it] included a breathtaking array of material like Graham Lowndes' 'Till Time Brings Change', Gulliver Smith and Jeremy Noone's 'It's Up to You' and Billy Green's adaptation of the Dylan Thomas poem 'Do not Go Gentle'."[1] In 1974 it was awarded Best Female Vocal Album in the Australian Radio Record Awards.[5][18] Fellow singer-songwriter, Bob Hudson, observed, "her appeal lies in the fact that when she is singing, what's happening up there on stage is for you, the audience, and you can feel it. She bleeds for the people she's singing to — she expresses the human condition."[18]

Lewis was appointed to the Music Board of the Australia Council for the Arts in February 1973.[19] With John Bell and Jon English, she worked in a rock musical, The Bacchoi, written by Bryan Nason and Ralph Tyrrell based on the story of Euripides. It was the first show for the Nimrod Theatre Company at Belvoir St in Surry Hills.[20]

In 1974 a live album, Looking Backwards to Tomorrow, in and out of Concert, was released and performed on stage at the State Theatre in Sydney. McFarlane described how it features, "[her] renditions of songs by Ray Davies ('Celluloid Heroes'), Dory Previn ('Scared to Be Alone'), Stephen Sondheim ('Ladies Who Lunch'), Graham Lowndes ('The House Is Burning') and the Rev. Gary Davies ('Cocaine Blues' with backing provided by the Foreday Riders)."[1]

Her next album, Tears of Steel & The Clowning Cavaleras was a double album released in 1976 to go with a multi-media performance featuring song, theatre, dance and visuals, which had premiered at the York Theatre, Seymour Centre in the preceding November.[18] The project was partly inspired by Pablo Neruda's poem, "Tears of Steel", and the Mexican celebration, Day of the Dead, which includes the use of calaveras – mock skeletons paraded through the streets.[1][18] Alongside Lewis in the show were Carlos, Reid, Dave Ellis, Roger Frampton, Phillip Godden, Mike McGurk and John Sangster.[18] It was produced and directed by Ted Robinson with Sharp designing the sets.[18]

In 1975 Lewis was awarded a study grant of A$8000 from the Australia Council for the Arts to travel overseas from February 1976;[18] she spent almost three years in Central and South America and returned late in 1978.[1][5] She later explained to Clive Simmons of The Canberra Times, how she was, "shocked and appalled by the grinding poverty she saw there, and by the cruelty and barbarity of the military dictatorships which governed those nations. By the time she returned, she had been radicalised by the experience."[5]

In 1979 with her band, Jeannie Lewis and the Company She Keeps, she created and performed a series of shows: From Maroubra to Mexico.[21] Peter Ross of Tharunka observed, "she had full houses at the Kirk for her show. From Maroubra to Mexico, the Multinational Stomp. At these concerts she revealed a renewed dedication to social and political change."[21] In July of that year she supported John McLaughlin on his Australian tour.[1][2] Lewis devised a cabaret show, Krazy for You, using material by Noël Coward, Nick Lowe, and Bruce Springsteen,[1] which she performed during 1979–80.[22]

1980s

[edit]

Lewis issued a compilation album, Till Time Brings Change, in 1980. She appeared in the title role of Piaf at the Comedy Theatre, Melbourne in September.[1][22][23] In November 1981 Lewis took the role of Low Dive Jenny, a world weary hooker, in the State Theatre Company of South Australia's production of Brecht's The Threepenny Opera.[24] The Canberra Times' theatre critic, Ken Healey observed, "the best way to describe, and praise, the singing is to recall that [Lewis] was the best but not the only singer on stage. There was never a moment when one felt that here was a singer acting while beside her were actors singing."[24]

She devised, with John Derum, Piaf, the Songs and the Story, which premiered at the Princess Theatre, Melbourne in February 1982.[1][22][23] Again, she took the title role.[23] It included four national tours, with an associated soundtrack album released in that year. Also in 1982 Lewis created and performed For a Dancer about her mother's life;[5] it premiered at the Adelaide Festival. Ethel had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and Lewis "would sing the golden oldies to her — what I call the left-wing hit parade — in the hope that they would bring her something."[5]

In May 1982 Lewis supported and performed at an anti-mining rally in Broken Hill against the proposed the Honeymoon Uranium Mine.[25] She presented a new show, So You Want Blood, in 1983 and released an album of the same name in September. In the following year she appeared in Ta Paratragouda at the Athens Festival, Melbourne.[2] From April to May 1984 she was in Carmen, Another Perspective with the Melbourne Theatre Company at the Russell Street Theatre.[22] She performed Ta Paratragouda in Melbourne, again, which was recorded for SBS and Greek TV.[26]

Lewis travelled overseas in 1987, representing Australia on a tour of Mexico with The Necks for the Cervantes International Arts Festival; it later became a one-hour SBS TV documentary, Maroubra to Mexico. She also sang in Paul Robeson's stage show, Deep Bells Ring and performed Pilgrimages, for which she wrote the text and Jim Cotter wrote the music, dedicated to a friend with AIDS.[26]

1990s

[edit]

Lewis had a new show, Voxy Lady, at the Adelaide Festival in 1990; it had Llew Kiek as musical director, Lois Ellis as stage director.[27] One of its songs, "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow", later appeared on her 2003 CD, SouthHeart. The Green Left Weekly's Angela Matheson described the next project, People Like Us, at the Seymour Centre in March 1991: "A female quintet which includes Margret RoadKnight and Jeannie Lewis provides an aural chorus drawing upon a history of music ranging from Hildegard Von Bingen to Cambodian folk songs". It was directed by Peter Kingston with musical direction by Mara Kiek.[28]

In 1992 Lewis devised a cabaret of contemporary love songs, Dangerous Lovers.[26] In the following year she sang a track, "The Plains of Emu", on a various artists' album, Going Home – Australian Artists, Australian Songs, for ABC Records.[29] Also in 1993 she received an Australia Council for the Arts Grant to study Extended Voice Techniques at Roy Hart International Theatre Centre in France and the tango in its sung form in Buenos Aires.[26]

Lewis performed alongside Margret RoadKnight, Moya Simpson (of Shortis and Simpson) and Blair Greenberg,[1] at the Sydney Opera House for the 1995 season of Cinderella Acappella, which is a collection of children's songs, written by Simpson's partner, John Shortis. It was recorded as an album by a group of the same name and was released in 1994.[1] It was nominated for the ARIA Award for Best Children's Album in 1995.[30][31] Also in 1995 the singer performed in, Viva Diva, a series of concerts featuring original work and music from Greece, Tibet, Beijing, South Africa, Argentina, the Netherlands, Corsica and France. She released an album, Tango Australis, in 1998, which is based on her concert program of that name.[32]

Lewis performed with Annie Deller-Peterson, Leah Cotterell, Bronwyn Calcutt, Katrina Alberts and Alison St Ledger, in Women in Voice 7 in Brisbane in July 1997.[33] Lynda Hansen of Green Left Weekly described her as, "a long-time international performer and writer, delighted the crowd with excerpts from her new show The Baglady Hits Out."[33] In September of that year she was awarded a fellowship at Varuna, The Writers' House, "to work on a performance script."[34]

In 1998 Lewis performed at the Homeless Women's Speakout at the YWCA,[35] and in the Port Fairy Folk Festival,[9] She appeared in "Life, Love, Death and the Weather – a collaboration with dancers Chrissie Koltai, Anka Frankenhauser, Patrick Harding-Irmer, musician Steve Blau, performed at the Performance Space as part of Dance Week."[26] Architect's Desk and The Wig of Larks – The Bag Lady Calls The Tune were performances from the following year.[26] "In November 1999 Lewis collaborated with flamenco dancer Veronica Gillmer on the production Camerino, at Sydney's Tom Mann Theatre."[2]

2000s

[edit]

One Word We was staged for a second time, opening on 8 January 2000, with Lewis as one of the seven singers. It was originally performed in 1995. By Maurie Mulheron, covering the songs and life of Pete Seeger. It was performed at the New Theatre at Newtown and later, in 2001 at the Woodford Folk Festival. A CD with the same name has been produced and it is said that the show was being edited for a documentary.[26][36]

The Palais, a building sings of lives lived in music was at the Parramatta Town Hall, 27–30 July 2000. The show involved more than fifty performers in more than 20 acts and was spread through most of the building. Urban Theatre Projects produced the show.[37] Lewis also performed in the East Timor Year One Celebration to mark and celebrate the first anniversary of East Timor's historic U.N. Referendum on self-determination at Leichhardt on 30 August 2000.[38]

In May 2001 she received an $80,000 Fellowship grant from the Australia Council, which she used to create Southheart.[2] "All this SOUThHEART thing began with me wondering why the lyrics of so many tangos refer to the south. The tango which inspired it, this delving into the bottom of my heart, was Corazon al Sur – Heart to the South. --That song from the south of Argentina, that south talks to me so much of this south and the shadow of my mother in the garden in Maroubra."[26] Lewis was a part of the East Timor Independence Day Celebrations in 2002.[39] She performed in the Trade Union Concert in 2003[40] and in a tribute to Timorese women concert, in 2004.[41] Also in 2004 being part of the May Day music festival in South Australia.[42]

In 2009 Jeannie Lewis gave the Seventeenth Annual Bell Jazz Lecture.

Discography

[edit]

Studio albums

[edit]
Title Details Peak chart positions
AUS
[43]
Free Fall Through Featherless Flight
  • Released: October 1973
  • Label: EMI ( EMC 2505)
  • Format: LP
Tears of Steel & the Clowning Cavaleras
  • Released: May 1976
  • Label: EMI (EME.1001/2)
  • Format: 2xLP
82
Piaf - The Songs and the Story
  • Released: 1982
  • Label: WEA (600114)
  • Format: LP, CS
So U Want Blood
  • Released: 1983
  • Label: Larrikin Records (LRF134)
  • Format: LP, CS
Tango Australis
  • Released: 1998
  • Label: Sole Music (SOLE 2)
  • Format: CD
Women 'n Blues
(with Wendy Saddington, Kate Dunbar, Margret RoadKnight and Sally King)
  • Released: 2003
  • Label: Full House Records (FHR 021)
  • Format: CD
South Heart
  • Released: 2003
  • Format: 2x CD

Live albums

[edit]
Title Details Peak chart positions
AUS
[43]
Looking Backwards to Tomorrow, in and out of Concert
  • Released: November 1974
  • Label: EMA ( 307)
  • Format: LP
50

Compilation albums

[edit]
Title Details
Till Time Brings Change
  • Released: 1980
  • Label: EMI
  • Format: LP

Other appearances

[edit]
  • Folk Concert on Campus (as Jean Lewis), 1965
  • Spectrum, Ray Price Jazz Quintet, 1971
  • Three Floors Down, 1972
  • Gallery Concerts, the Alan Lee Quartet & Friends, 1973
  • Going Home : Australian artists, Australian songs, 1993
  • Cinderella Acappella, 1994
  • One Word ... WE! The Songs and Story of Pete Seeger and Friends, 2000
  • Green Songs, 2001
  • The Good Old Bad Old Days, Sydney Jazz Club Golden Jubilee 1953–2003, 2003
  • Azadi: Songs of Liberation, 2005

Awards and nominations

[edit]

Australian Women in Music Awards

[edit]

The Australian Women in Music Awards is an annual event that celebrates outstanding women in the Australian Music Industry who have made significant and lasting contributions in their chosen field. They commenced in 2018.

Year Nominee / work Award Result Ref.
2023 Jeannie Lewis Lifetime Achievement Award awarded [44][45]

References

[edit]
General
  • McFarlane, Ian (1999). "Whammo Homepage". Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop. St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1-86508-072-1. Archived from the original on 5 April 2004. Retrieved 3 October 2013. Note: Archived [on-line] copy has limited functionality.
Specific
  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s McFarlane, 'Jeannie Lewis' entry. Archived from the original on 19 April 2004. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Kimball, Duncan (2002). "Jeannie Lewis". Milesago: Australasian Music and Popular Culture 1964–1975. Ice Productions. Archived from the original on 23 June 2003. Retrieved 24 May 2015.
  3. ^ Sullivan, Martin (2000). "Biography – Samuel Phineas (Sam) Lewis". National Centre of Biography, Australian Dictionary of Biography. Australian National University. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
  4. ^ "Claims Mr. S. P. Lewis Key Communist". Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate. No. 22, 184. 8 November 1947. p. 3. Retrieved 19 April 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Simmons (9 September 1995). "Arts & Entertainment: Committed to a Dream with Tears of Steel". The Canberra Times. Vol. 71, no. 22, 059. p. 54. Retrieved 21 April 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ^ "Famous alumni on Latham's hit list". Crikey. 28 April 2002. Archived from the original on 8 March 2005. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
  7. ^ a b Curthoys, Ann (2002). Freedom Ride. Allen and Unwin. ISBN 1-86448-922-7.
  8. ^ Haesler, Bill (2004). "God, Church and All That Jazz, A brief history from an Australian perspective". Encounter: Religion and Ethics. Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Retrieved 19 April 2018.
  9. ^ a b Hennessy, Julanna (2004). Jeannie Lewis on the Net Archived 4 May 2006 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 6 January 2006.
  10. ^ Atkinson, Ann; Knight, Linsay and McPhee, Margaret (1996). Dictionary of Performing Arts in Australia. Allen and Unwin. pp. 135–6. ISBN 1-86373-898-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  11. ^ a b c d e f Paul; Di (17 April 1973). "Jeannie". Tharunka. Vol. 19, no. 7. pp. 14–15. Retrieved 19 April 2018 – via National Library of Australia. Note: includes photos of the artist.
  12. ^ "67 demonstrators fined". The Canberra Times. Vol. 42, no. 12, 006. 21 May 1968. p. 10. Retrieved 19 April 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  13. ^ Walker, Clinton (2002). "Up in the Hills too Long". Highway to Hell. Picador. p. 95. ISBN 0-330-36377-8.
  14. ^ a b Stacey, Terry J (2002). Duncan Kimball (ed.). "Festivals: Fairlight 'The Timeless Trip'". Milesago: Australasian Music and Popular Culture 1964–1975. Ice Productions. Archived from the original on 23 June 2003. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
  15. ^ Hood, Robert (1994), "Australian Horror Films, Part 1: Killer Koalas: Australian (and New Zealand) Horror Films, a History" Retrieved 6 January 2006.
  16. ^ Bird, John A; Turnbull, Simon (2002). Duncan Kimball (ed.). "John A. Bird". Milesago: Australasian Music and Popular Culture 1964–1975. Ice Productions. Archived from the original on 14 March 2009. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
  17. ^ a b "Jeannie's First Record". Tharunka. Vol. 19, no. 18. 11 September 1973. p. 10. Retrieved 19 April 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  18. ^ a b c d e f g Chalmers, Gillian (5 November 1975). "Blues Singer Jeannie Lewis Has Grant Will Travel". The Australian Women's Weekly. Vol. 43, no. 23. p. 16. Retrieved 20 April 2018 – via National Library of Australia. Note: includes a colour photo of the artist.
  19. ^ "The Whitlam Collection: Australian Council for the Arts, Press statement No. 54". The Whitlam Institute. University of Western Sydney. 16 February 1973. Archived from the original on 18 July 2005. Retrieved 21 April 2018.
  20. ^ Bell, John (2002). John Bell: the Time of My Life. Allen and Unwin. ISBN 1-74114-134-6.
  21. ^ a b Ross, Peter (11 June 1979). "Jeannie Lewis". Tharunka. Vol. 25, no. 14. p. 19. Retrieved 20 April 2018 – via National Library of Australia. Note: includes photos of the artist.
  22. ^ a b c d "Contributor: Jeannie Lewis". AusStage. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  23. ^ a b c Zakharov, Jeannie (9 February 1989). "Stage: Edith Piaf's Songs Brought Alive by a 'Little Budgie'". The Canberra Times. Good Times. Vol. 63, no. 19, 483. p. 28. Retrieved 22 April 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  24. ^ a b Healey, Ken (29 November 1981). "The Message Makes Brecht Memorable". The Canberra Times. Vol. 56, no. 16, 865. p. 8. Retrieved 20 April 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  25. ^ Ellis, John Brant, Jeannie Lewis at the Honeymoon uranium mine rally, May 1982. Retrieved from the Picture Australia Archive 6 January 2006.
  26. ^ a b c d e f g h Jeannie Lewis Official Website Retrieved 6 January 2006.
  27. ^ Lewis, Jeannie; Ellis, Lois; Kiek, Llew; Kadogo, Aku; Cooper, Melody (1990). "Voxy Lady (theatre program)". Adelaide Festival. Retrieved 22 April 2018.
  28. ^ Matheson, Angela (4 April 1991). "Celebrating Cultural Diversity: People Like Us". Green Left Weekly. Archived from the original on 14 September 2003. Retrieved 22 April 2018.
  29. ^ Holmgren, Magnus (1993). "Going Home – Australian Artists, Australian Songs". hem.passagen.se. Australian Rock Database. Archived from the original on 30 September 2013. Retrieved 21 April 2018.
  30. ^ "Winners by Year 1995". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Archived from the original on 26 September 2007. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
  31. ^ (1994). Shortis and Simpson Archived 7 September 2005 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 18 February 2006.
  32. ^ Lewis, Jeannie (2000), Tango Australis, Sole Music, retrieved 22 April 2018
  33. ^ a b Hansen, Lynda (1997). "Journey of emotions". Green Left Weekly. Archived from the original on 27 December 2003. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
  34. ^ "Varuna in 1997 – Highlights". Varuna, The Writers' House. 14 August 1999. Archived from the original on 25 October 2004. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
  35. ^ (2000). New Theatre presents One Word.... We. Retrieved 20 May 2006.
  36. ^ (2000). A Building Sings of Lives Lived in Music by Megan Elliot. Retrieved 27 May 2006.
  37. ^ "East Timor's Year One Celebration". Workers Online No. 67, 2000 Retrieved 5 January 2006
  38. ^ "Activists Notebook". Workers Online No. 136, 2003 Retrieved 5 January 2006
  39. ^ "Singing For The People" Workers Online March 2003 Retrieved 5 January 2006
  40. ^ (2004). Alola Foundation Calendar, The Kirsty Sword ALOLA FOUNDATION Benefit Archived 16 December 2005 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 6 January 2006.
  41. ^ (2004). LHMU SA, SA members: May Day music festival Archived 13 January 2006 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 6 January 2006.
  42. ^ a b Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 177. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  43. ^ "Finalists Announced for the 2023 Australian Women in Music Awards". Music Feeds. 18 July 2023. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
  44. ^ "Australian Women In Music Awards 2023 Winners Announced". Music Feeds. 28 September 2023. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
[edit]