[4] In 1973, while attending the Sacramento Women's Music Festival, she performed during the open mic session and began her career as a professional musician.

[4] Her first album, Margie Adam, was promoted with a 50-city tour which concluded with a performance of her song, "We Shall Go Forth" at the National Women's Conference in Houston.

The song quickly became an anthem for the lesbian feminist movement and is now part of the Political History archives in the Smithsonian Museum.

[4] After being on a "radical sabbatical,"[4] since 1984, Adam returned to writing music in 1991[4] and went on a national tour in 1992 to support her new album, Another Place.

In 1998, she conducted a tour to raise awareness of the service feminist bookstores made to the women's community.