Helen Marcou AM has spent decades at the coalface of music culture. Alongside her long term partner Quincy McLean AM, she co-founded Melbourne’s much loved Bakehouse Studios.

In 2022, she was inducted to the Music Victoria ‘Hall of Fame’ for lifetime achievement. In 2019 she was invested with an ‘Order of Australia’ for her contribution to music and the arts. Helen is an inductee to the Victorian Women’s honor roll and a recipient of the Sidney Myer performing arts facilitators award. Life highlight was appearing on cult TV show ‘Gardening Australia.’

She is a curator, speaker, mentor and advocate.