Yes, it's a bit of a daft question. You only have to look at Voice Of The People where, in addition to May Bradley and Phoebe Smith many other women such as Sarah Makem, Belle Stewart, Margaret Barry Jeannie Robertson, Lizzie Higgins, Mary Anne Haynes and there are surely many more but I can't be arsed to go and look. Then there are the Legg women, Cecilia Costello and Queen Caroline Hughes.

It's true that these recordings are a little light on women musicians but, as Anahata says, pubs were funny about women then.