Between 1979 and 1986, the pair featured in a national TV Show (Playmates on ABC Television),[1] created ten albums (three Gold and one Platinum),[2] produced three songbooks and they teamed up with Western Australian author/storyteller Kel Watkins to create an instructional book, String Games for Beginners.
Mike and Michelle, both singers and multi-instrumental musicians, met on stage at the 1979 Kapunda Celtic Music Festival and married soon after.
Mike and Michelle's children's albums were a huge success with their second, Playmates going Platinum and the rest of their first four kids' discs going 'Gold' in Australia.
They were featured artists on the ABC TV program Playmates and regular contributors to many other 1980s Australian children's shows.
[citation needed] Michelle Jackson (born Noosa Heads, Queensland, Australia) already played guitar; fiddle; and mandolin when she met Mike and quickly added a number of other instruments to her list of skills.