ALEX MYERS 
 
Singer, Songwriter, Guitar, Fiddle.
 
Well-known Tasmanian singer Alex Myers was born Alexandra Maria Tkaczuk in Uranquinty 22/4/1950, at the Uranquinty Migrant Holding Centre.  Her parents were WWII refugees seeking a new life in Australia.
 
From her earliest influences in the school madrigal group, to the American folk wave of the 1960s, to the British/Celtic folk-rock boom of the 1970s, to the rock band years of the 1980s, to the songwriting experiments and return to the folk fold of the 1990s, ALEX MYERS has been a singer who has constantly pursued excellence in her music.
 
A part of  the Tasmanian folk music scene since 1966, she has been involved in some of the most important events of the times, from folk clubs  such as THE COPPER POT, and LEMON TREE in Launceston, THE FIVE BELIEVERS, and AD LIB in Hobart.
In 1968, she was a quarter-finalist on the national TV production “HOLDEN SHOWCASE 68”.
 
Alex was one of a group of Tasmanian performers who made up the BRUMIDA FOLK FESTIVALS in Burnie, Devonport and Launceston in the eraly 1970's.
 
She has performed at nine out of the ten TASMANIAN  FOLK FESTIVALS at LONGFORD.
 
In 1977, Alex, with David and Helen Atkins, Ted Myers and a few other stalwarts, started and organised the BOTTOM PUB FOLK CLUB at Longford, which was one of the most successful folk clubs in Tasmania, They also began the well-known dance band THE BOTTOM PUB CEILIDH BAND, which played its first dance on 20/5/1978, and is still going strong, with not an original member left, 25 years later.
 
Alex founded and played in the legendary Tasmanian folk-rock band TANSEY’S FANCY ( 1976 - 1979). (Not to be confused with the later Sydney band of the same name.)
 
She has played at THE BOTHY FOLK CLUB in Hobart in the late 70s, both as a soloist and with her folk-rock band TANSEY’S FANCY, and has appeared regularly at the CYGNET FOLK FESTIVAL  and the TAMAR VALLEY FOLK FESTIVAL. 
 
She joined forces with SUE LEE-ARCHER to form the much loved duo, ACCAPPELLA STELLA, which has performed at all the Tasmanian folk festivals, supported ALASTAIR ANDERSON,  presented the workshop “A Vocal Historical Tour De Force”  at the PORT FAIRY FOLK FESTIVAL in 1987, and released a CD in 1999 - A CAGEFULL OF SEAGULLS.
 
In 1990 she teamed up with DOUG KELLY  and COSMOS, and played supports for THE FUREYS and FOSTER & ALLEN, as well
as appearing at the KABARLAH FOLK FESTIVAL in Queensland, and the AQUARIUS FESTIVAL AT WOODSTOCK. 

Alex has also performed as support act for internationals  RALPH MCTELL, MELANIE SAFKA and DAVE SWARBRICK. 
 
Over the years, Alex has been working on writing songs  which have a distinctive, evocative style, and in 1998, was asked to be one of the judges for the FOLK FEDERATION OF TASMANIA SONGWRITING AWARDS.
 
Having played in a total of 12 folk bands and seven rock bands, Alex continues to perform as a soloist, and is also currently working with SUE LEE-ARCHER in the duo ACCAPPELLA STELLA.
 
She has been the musician for LONGFORD MORRIS  since Feb. 2001, and Sue Lee-Archer has joined her in POSH MORRIS.
 
In 2001, she teamed up with historian MALCOLM TURNBULL to produce the workshop “From The Wild Goose To Brumida - Tasmanian Songwriters Of The 1960s and 70s” at the Georgetown Folk Festival.
 
This was followed in 2002, by her own workshop “Ballads And Broadsides - The Tabloids Of The Middle Ages”,  which she performed and presented with DOUG KELLY.
 
In 2003, Alex wrote the workshop “Circle Round the Sun - Songs and Traditions of the Seasons”, and presented it at the Tamar Valley Folk Festival with DOUG KELLY, SUE LEE-ARCHER and MALCOLM TURNBULL.
 
She followed this with  “Legends of Avalon - Tales of Glastonbury and Arthur of Britain”, presented with SUE LEE-ARCHER and MALCOLM TURNBULL in 2004.