Rosalind Weeks, née Gordon, was born and raised in Ireland, where she graduated with honours in music from the National University of Ireland, Cork. She gave up a promising career to work with MRA, joining the cast of It’s Our Country, Jack!, for several months before spending three and a half years in India at the invitation of Rajmohan Gandhi. Responding to an emergency need for a pianist, she joined Anything to Declare in Mumbai for the rest of its tour, writing several songs for the places where it performed. After the tour ended, she spent two years in Austria. In 1973 she married Richard Weeks and joined him in Canada, where they were the first hosts of a new MRA centre in Montreal. After moving to Ottawa, her music training was put to work as she took up a parallel career as piano teacher and church organist, helping to support the needs of a growing family. She raised three sons.
