The cellist, Adelheid Liefeld was my grandmother. She studied music at the University of Chicago but women were not hired in orchestras at that time (with the exception of harpists). After playing with the Ingenues, she married and moved to Winnipeg, where she played cello in the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra.

I just love seeing this. My grandmother is Alice Pleis and she married my grandfather, the "manager and electrician" for the ingenues, Ray Fabing.

My Great Aunt Lucy Westgate played flute and sax in the Orchestra. She was from Rhinelander, Wisconsin.

This was a wonderful tribute to an incredible musical entourage!

The information provided by subtitle is perfectly done. Thank you whoever! What an amazing act. The accordion performance of Rain must have been amazing to hear first hand. Thanks again.

WOW! This needs to be made into a film. The kind of women's "liberation" a real man can totally embrace!

So much emotion, so beautiful, gentle music that we need at the present.. Thanks

The best musicians on youtube or anywhere else. WOW

Thank you for uploading this. It really made my day. What a wonderful piece of history to share, such a rare gem in terms of footage depicting women of the past banding together in the arts to make something wonderful. I'm sure it happened a lot more than we even know. It's so quirky and fun and full of life.Makes me wonder about the rest of the story, how they came together and what happened to them after the band disbanded.

Thank you for the post and the annotations. I too have questions, based on my little bit of research, as to the identity of both the harpist and the cellist, and who the leader was (Frances Gorton, possibly?). That notwithstanding, as a multi-instrumentalist I am enormously impressed with these players. It's sad (but not surprising in view of what is currently being peddled as entertainment) that their talents and memory have been consigned to near-oblivion. How many of today's "artists" possess even the tiniest fraction of these womens' abilities?

Thanks for taking the trouble to research this. As you say, not much is known about them but at least a bit more is now, and rightly so as they were very extremely talented musicians.

They were really fabulous!!

Amusing to hear Irving Berlin's 'Shakin' the Blues Away' in this strict-tempo banjo rendition. Now watch Ann Miller in 'Easter Parade' for the hot version. Two kinds of liberated lady.

The recording of Chloe is a fascinating curiosity, possesing what the Adelaide Advertiser called in 1929, 'a delicious naivety'. I'd never heard it before your post but what a gem.There's something curiously whimsical about the Ingenues version which defeats time, and brings the song, with all of its quaintness, into our age.