Ms Nerys Evans

Nerys Evans was born in Wales and emigrated to Australia in 1964. She attained Australian Citizenship in 1975.

After completing her education at Homerton College, Cambridge, Ms Evans graduated with a teaching degree, specialising in drama and sculpture. She taught for four years in a primary school in London before emigrating to Western Australia. Her first job was teaching Art at Northam High School and she continued her love of the theatre with the Northam Dramatic Society. She taught in primary and secondary school for 22 years.

In 1968 Ms Evans returned to Wales to help her mother, Mrs Sarah Bryn Evans organise the music component of the prestigious Welsh National Eisteddfod.

Back in Western Australia Ms Evans joined the WA Folk Federation.

In 1975 she was the director of "Womanfolk", a concert held in Perth Town Hall in celebration of The International Year for Women. She has appeared at all the major Folk Festivals in Australia in various capacities, including Alice Springs in 1980.

Ms Evans was a member of the organising committee for The National Folk Festival held in Fremantle in 1978 and then in Alice Springs in 1987.

In 1981 Ms Evans met Ted Egan at WA's State Festival. She moved to Alice Springs in 1982.

Since then Ms Evans has helped build a dream home in Alice Springs, has recorded songs and has written a film script. She represented Australia at the Western Folklife Centre, Nevada USA, at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering, and at the American Cowboys Hall of Fame, Oklahoma City in 1990, and again in 1994.

She has travelled with Ted throughout Australia and overseas, enthusiastically promoting the wonders of the Northern Territory.

Ms Evans moved to Darwin on 31 October 2003, when her husband, Mr Ted Egan AO was appointed as the 18th Administrator of the Northern Territory.