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Folk Federation of New South Wales Inc

1970 - 2010 40 YEARS

The Loaded Dog Folk Club Turns 20

Over the years the Dog has presented hundreds of acts - accompanied and unaccompanied singers, bands, choirs, musicians, poets, storytellers, even dancers!

Miguel Heatwole

Bob & Margaret Fagan

Kate Maclurcan

Dog Birthday Concert Special

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SATURDAY 11THSEPTEMBER 2010 3pm

The Irish Gaelic Club (Upstairs)64 Devonshire Street, Surry HillsPERFORMERS INCLUDE

Bob Campbell, Kate Delaney, Séamus Gill, Paddy Affley,Jeannie Lewis, Mike Flanagan, Cornerbrook (Bridie Burke, Cory Clarke, Ben Stephenson), Colleen Burke, John Dengate, Margaret Walters, Brian Mooney, Margaret and Bob Fagan. Session of tunes and songs follows concert.Admission: $15/$10. Children 16 years & under free.The Gaelic Club is kindly providing soup at $5 a bowl and tea/coffee (gold coin).Enq. Colleen Burke 9557 3248, Margaret Walters 9698 2206

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Celebrating 40 Years of Folk Music

ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL

NSW Labour Day Long Weekend 1st – 4th October 2010

Fantastic New Hall with Hot Showers

CHEAP TICKETS Full Weekend $55 Concession $45 Day $30

KIDS/CAMPING FREE_MEALS AVAILABLE

Tin Shed Rattlers..Stiff Gins...Pattersons Curse...Craig & Simone Dawson...Badja River Quartet Cap’t Pete..Den Hanrahan and the Roadsiders..The Quinty Brothers and Sisters Big Blues Band String Theory....Melbourne Scottish Fiddle Orchestra...Spirit of the Glen...Franklyn B Paverty Luke R Davies...Helen Begley...Jane Harding...Tracey Harris....Derek Bruce....Jack Jensen

www.uranquintyfolk.com

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dates for your diary September 2010

MEtropolitanFriday 3rdBMC Beer & Cheese night. ‘Politics of the Past and Present.’ Bring songs on the theme, and something to share for supper. Tritton Hall (Hut 44), Addison Rd Community Centre, 142 Addison Rd, Marrickville. 8-10pm. $5. Bob 9569 7244, bobbolton@netspace,.net.auloosely Woven 7pm RAZZLE DAZZLE - Humph Hall, 85 Allambie Rd, Allambie Hts. Info: Wayne Richmond 9939 8802 [email protected] - looselywoven.orgSaturday 4ththe Shack. LuKe esComBe. Songs on his first solo album are warm, humorous meditations on love, life, time travel, happiness. Political, without being partisan; personal, not maudlin; funny, not lightweight. ‘He’s like a cross between Jimi Hendrix and Leonard Cohen.’ + sWooN, dynamic contemporary rockin’ folk duo. Danceable, to tender ballads, humorous ditties, blues based acoustic rock. Josh plays acoustic guitar with effects and loops, stomp box, foot tambourine, for Angela Smith’s strong beautiful voice and master shaker playing. + tHe sPasm BaNd. Lively jug band, blues, roots music with strong vocals; instruments incl. double bass, harmonica, guitar, dobro. Tramshed Community Arts Centre, 1395a Pittwater Rd, Narrabeen (betw. car park & Ambulance). 7.30-11pm. $15. Free tea, coffee. BYO drinks, nibbles. 0413 635 856,[email protected] Beecroft Bush dance with sYdNeY CoVes. All dances taught. Beecroft Community Centre, Beecroft Rd (opp Fire Station). 8pm-12. $17, $14, $12, includes supper. Helen 9626 7816. bushmusic.org.auloosely Woven 7pm RAZZLE DAZZLE Humph Hall, 85 Allambie Rd, Allambie Hts. Free Wayne Richmond 9939 8802 [email protected] - looselywoven.org

Sunday 5thWheelers and Dealers, Zenith Theatre 3.30pm Cnr Mcintosh and Railway Sts, Chatswood For bookings please refer to the theatre’s website or phone 9777 7555 www.zeniththeatre.com.auloosely Woven 2pm RAZZLE DAZZLE - Humph Hall, 85 Allambie Rd, Allambie Hts. Free. Wayne Richmond 9939 8802 [email protected] - looselywoven.orgMonday 6thBMC Dance Workshop, ‘New Vogue’. Leader Allen Davis. Pennant Hills Community Centre, Yarrara Rd. 7.30-9.30pm. $7. Felicity 9456 2860Thursday 9thSutherland acoustic. NeW YorK PuBLIC LIBrarY (John Flannigan, Warren Boyd, Isabelle Fogarty) - A variety of music incl. originals, folk, comedic, and “adapted bluegrass”. Together for 25 years, they still generate a fresh spontaneity, with an infectious love of fun. + Peter mILLer-roBINsoN, songwriter, singer, guitarist, whose original music has elements of folk, blues and jazz. Also mandolin and 8 string ukelele. Strong, rich vocals, dexterous playing and astute, often wry lyrics. myspace.com/petermillerrobinson Free supper. Floor spots by prior request. Trade Union Club (Tradies), Kingsway, Gymea. 7.30pm. $15, $10, kids free, FF $12. Jenny 9576 2301Saturday 11th►Central Coast Bush Dance, with sYdNeY CoVes. All dances taught, walked through and called. East Gosford Progress Hall, cnr Wells St and Henry Parry Drive. 7.30-11.30pm. Supper provided. $17, $14, $12; students 13-18 $8. Robyn or Richard, 4344 6484►Declan affley - 25 Years on.The Irish Gaelic Club (Upstairs) 64 Devonshire St, Surry Hills. $15/$10. Children free. Enq. Colleen Burke 9557 3248 or Margaret Walters 9698 2206.

Monday 13th, 20th, 27thBMC Dance Workshop, ‘Practice for Coming Events’. Leader John Short. Pennant Hills Community Centre, Yarrara Rd. 7.30-9.30pm. $7. Felicity 9456 2860Thursday 16thBilly Barlow: Colonial Eccentrics and Bards. WarreN FaHeY and the LarrIKINs with Kate deLaNeY & deNIs traCeY. Dixson Room, Mitchell Library, Sydney. 5.30 for 6pm. $40, incl. light refreshments. warrenfahey.com/wf_intro.htmFriday 17thHornsby Ku-ring-gai Folk Club. CooLGrass (Victoria), Australia’s best bluegrass band. Their first and only Sydney performance - musicianship and comedy assured. Beatrice Taylor Hall, rear Willow Park Community Centre, Edgeworth David Ave, Hornsby. 8pm (doors 7.30pm). $15. BYO drinks & nibbles - tea & coffee provided. Booking recommended. Candle lit venue, tables can be booked. Barry Parks 9807 9497,[email protected] 18thBalmain Bush Dance with soutHerN Cross. All dances taught. Rozelle Campus, Sydney College, 25 Terry St. 8pm-12. $17, $14, $12, incl. supper. Don or Wendy 9642 7950. bushmusic.org.auSelalu & the Dingle Brothers 7.30pm - Humph Hall, 85 Allambie Rd, Allambie Hts. Wayne Richmond 9939 8802 [email protected] - humphhall.orgWednesday 22nd ian Simpsion & John Kane. Cat and Fiddle Hotel, Balmain 8pm$20; $15 conc.Enq. John Gallagher [email protected] 25ththe loaded Dog - 20th Birthday. Sing along with Dog founder CaroLe GarLaNd, John Dengate, The Roaring Forties, Miguel Heatwole, Gerry Myerson, Kate Maclurcan, Bob and Margaret Fagan. Join a cast of thousands celebrating in harmony. See article for more details. Annandale Neighbourhood Centre, upstairs, 79 Johnston St. 8pm. $14, $12, BYO, supper available. Sandra 9358 4886, theloadeddog.org.auSunday 26th Engadine House Concert. CHLoe and JasoN roWetH have been performing and recording for over 18 years together. They share a passion for Australian folklore and bush music, getting great satisfaction out of bringing almost forgotten songs back to life again. A striking mix of older country and traditional styles, with fresh arrangements and a relaxed delivery, distinctly Australian. Strong original songs, old-style ballads, well known bush songs, and lively dance tunes, with fascinating background on where the items come from, and the performers who played them. Their releases include 15 CDs. 2pm. $15, $20, includes yummy home made afternoon tea. Booking essential: 9520 6180

Coolgrass


regional and aCtThursday 2ndWheelers and Dealers The Armidale Club, Armidale, 8pm ph 02 6772 4713Friday 3rd Wheelers and Dealers The Playhouse Hotel, Barraba, 8pm ph. 02 6782 1109Saturday 4thMothers of intention CD launch. +Beeswing. Wesley Hall, Hamilton. 7.30pm. newcastlehuntervalleyfolkclub.org.au

Canberra Colonial Ball, with WoNGaWILLI. Albert Hall. mfs.org.au/wiki/index.php/Colonial_BallFriday 10th

Yuin Folk Club – a WomaN IN tHe House – Cobargo Hotel (back room) 7.30pm. $12/$10Saturday 25thnewcastle Contra Dance with Julie Bishop and PastramI oN rYeBuCK. Wesley Hall, Beaumont St, Hamilton. 7.30pm. Bill 4946 5602The Merry Muse (presented by the Monaro Folk Society)Friday 10thCanberra Union Voices with John Warner and Jenni ColeSaturday 11thaJ leonard & Jenny rowlands supported by Ukulele Republic of Canberra

Friday 24thBlackheart supported by Kate RoweCanberra Southern Cross Club McCaughey Street, Turner, Enq. 0412 127 882

This is a "special event" collaboration between two of Australia's most respected acoustic instrumentalists, particularly in the Bluegrass area. Ian Simpson and John Kane played together for many years in the much awarded and much loved Flying Emus. Each have moved on to lengthy careers in music: Ian as a respected Producer and session player based in Perth who makes the occasional foray to the East to play with people as diverse as Paul Kelly and Australia All Over's Ian MacNamara and his old band the Sensitive New Age Cowpersons. He has worked with Slim Dusty, Keith Urban and US artists like Roland White and Byron Berline. John is a well respected music producer and screen composer these days working over the years with the likes of Judith Durham, Slim Dusty, Anne Kirkpatrick, Ted Egan, The Bushwackers, Jay Laga'aia and Georgie Parker; and composing music for programs as diverse as the ABC's Good Game to the 2008 Paralympics broadcast theme. He has toured with US artists David Bromberg, Vince Gill and Tony Trischka amongst others and even jammed in Byron Berline's music room with the father of bluegrass Bill Monroe.

The banjo album gives John and Ian a chance to return to what they both love. They explore a range of styles form hard driving bluegrass on well known tunes like Duellin Banjos and The Beverley Hillbillies in classic Guitar and banjo arrangement; to banjo duets on Appalachian tunes featuring John playing clawhammer style and Ian classic Scruggs style; through to Ragtime and classical music. All in all a great deal of fun with a few bad jokes for good measure.

Ian will be on a short visit from Perth to promote the Banjo album for ABC Music and John rarely ventures out his studio so this is a rare opportunity to see John and Ian perform what promises to be a relaxed and entertaining show.Cat and the Fiddle, Balmain Wednesday 22nd 8PM

Ian simpson and John Kane

Woman In The House Tour*Award-winning singer/songwriter Maureen O’Brien with her original easy-listening blues/jazz and contemporary folk songs will take you on a musical journey.Maureen will sometimes challenge you, tug at your heartstrings or simply make you laugh. There’s only one guarantee ..... you won’t leave a performance without being touched in some way.*Also appearing at this concert are, ambient, new-age duo ‘That’s That’ - create beautiful songs about environmental and spiritual consciousness.With their delicious vocal harmonies, their songs speak of our inter-relationship with na-ture, the cosmos and our role as custodians of the land. .AND* Amanda Broberg - delightful finger-syle bazouki/guitarist and distinctive vocalist. Aman-da crossses between folk, blues and classic pop in an intriguing and stylish performance.Based in the Wataglan Mountains, Amanda has performed at a number of folk clubs in the Newcastle/Hunter region. (Yuin Folk Club - Cobargo Hotel 10th September)


2nd - 4th SeptemberFolk Alliance Convention, ‘Ausfolk 2010’, Woodford, Qld.15th - 19th SeptemberThe Turning Wave - Gundagaiwww.turningwave.org.au1st – 4th October, 201040th Uranquinty Folk Festival Wagga Wagga Enquiries:Allan Hunter 02 6029 2156.website www.uranquintyfolk.com.(Volunteers needed)2nd - 4th OctoberBen Hall Festival - [email protected] OctoberFolk In The Foothills - Jamberoowww.illawarrafolkclub.org. 1300 887 03422nd - 24th OctoberKangaroo Valley Folk Festivalwww.kangaroovalleyfolkfestival.com22nd - 24th OctoberDorrigo Folk & Bluegrass FestivalDorrigo Showgroundswww.dorrigofolkbluegrass.com.au29th October - 1st November, 2010Maldon Folk Festivalwww.maldonfolkfestival.com’Frid 5th to Sun 7th Nov, 2010Folk In BrokePh: (02) 6579 149914th - 16th JanuaryCygnet Folk FestivalApplications now openwww.cygnetfolkfestival.com (applications close by 1st August)13th - 16th January26th Illawarra Folk Festival Performer ap-plications open now.www.illawarrafolkclub.org. 1300 887 03426th - 28th FebruaryCobargo Folk Festival (note applications no open closing date 31st August 2010) apply online to: www.cobargofolkfestival.com 21st - 25th April 2011National Folk Festival Canberrawww.folkfestival.asn.au

Festivals, Workshops, Schools

40th Uranquinty Folk Festival

Come one, come all, for all are welcome at the 40th Uranquinty Folk Festival!!

Yes, it’s our 40th year! which is quite a milestone for a music festival, and we hope you will come along to help us celebrate.

Quinty is an inclusive folk festival that encourages participation, whether it be flying a kite on the oval, enjoying coffee with friends at the bakery, dinner concerts at the hall followed by a night of bush dancing, great campfire sessions that usually go into the wee hours, our famous poets breakfasts, music workshops, becoming a star for 10 minutes at a blackboard concert, the special kids’ program, or sitting back and enjoying the concerts —there’s something for everyone in the entertainment packed 40th Quinty Festival.

The new Quinty Community Hall, built just last year, will surprise and delight all who visit. It was sad to say bye bye to the old hall but our new one has modern amenities, a well-appointed kitchen, hot water on demand (but we will miss throwing firewood into the old boiler — we don’t think!). And we were thrilled to discover the new Hall has such marvellous acoustics that amplification isn’t necessary and last year we ran concerts acoustically, which our performers and audiences loved.

Acoustic concerts will now be a feature of the Quinty Festival.Music sessions have long been a much loved feature of Quinty. Writes festival

newcomer Col Pike “The campfire sessions at Quinty need to be experienced to be believed.—put a truckload of the best musicians and singers you will find anywhere around that campfire and let them get on with it. Sit down, relax and enjoy.

Participate or don’t, it doesn’t matter, nobody is out of place.”Quinty has a certain charm characterized by friendly folk who love music and

life and who welcome strangers into their midst without question or judgment. It is a most welcoming event for the whole family.

“The ’Quinty festival reminds us that there are still many decent people around. Families & friends who can enjoy a simple experience in a beautiful spot, where you make your own entertainment with like minded folk. Relaxing & rejuvenating ‘Quinty’ can revive your soul & your faith in humanity.” Danny Spooner, PatronLabour Day Long Weekend 1 to 4 October 2010.Ticket prices per person - Weekend $55 Concession $45; Day $30; Concerts and Dances $12Kids and camping free hot showersWhere? 12kms south of Wagga Wagga on the Olympic Hwy in southern NSW. Full details of our festival program can be found on our website www.uranquintyfolk.com..Volunteers are still required for some festival activities to join teams or to be coordinators.Enquiries contact Allan Hunter of the Festival Organising Committee on 02 6029 2156.

Craig & Simone

Melbourne Scottish Fiddle Orchestra

Gulgong Folk FestivalDespite the story in the “Mudgee Guard-ian”, no volunteers for running The Gulgong Folk Festival have come for-ward, either in the local area or further afield. The festival has been held nearly every New Year for many years, and it’s a shame to see it fold. But it has burnt out several organisers over that time, and the supply seems to have run out, to the regret of many


2010 Maldon Folk FestivalJoin us in the historic township of Maldon to celebrate our 37th Festival on the weekend

of Friday 29th October to Monday 1st November, 2010 and experience the legendary atmosphere.

At our unique festival you can enjoy four days of a wide variety of music including traditional folk, bluegrass, Celtic, blues and roots, country folk, contemporary and world, with performers from all over Australia. There will be instrument, song and dance workshops, Bush Poetry events, theatrical and themed presentations and dances, including a Bollywood Dance Party. Also featuring an Instrument maker’s exhibition and a dedicated kids venue with music, craft activities and circus skills. All this at an affordable price with a special ticket deal for families. The Maldon Folk Festival has a unique friendly atmosphere that appeals to all ages. Something for everyone!

Maldon has a wealth of historic halls, churches, pubs and cafes – our venues are intimate and relaxed – plus the natural amphitheatre of Mount Tarrangower – home to the legendary Guinness Tent, the Tarrangower Wine Tent and a small village of food stalls, kid’s marquee, Session Tent and our main outdoor stage – with bush camping nearby. More than 20 venues operate over the four day weekend.

The impressive line up this year includes Celtic favourites Claymore, Damian Howard with the Ploughboys, Wheelers and Dealers and Saorse, high energy bands, The Currency, Sol Nation and Spot the Dog, quality Roots and Blues from Daniel Champagne, Rhys Crimmin and Rosie Haden, Bluegrass with Appalachian Heaven and Uncle Bill, World Music from Dya Singh, Acequia and The Woohoo Revue, renowned contemporary performers, Shane Howard, Nick and Liesel, Rory Faithfield, Stiff Gins and Tiffany Eckhardt and Dave Steel, vocal groups Pablo and Shaking the Tree Choir, traditional favourites Danny Spooner, Dave De Hugard and the Gay Charmers Old Time Dance Band, Ragtime Jazz with Jan Pestion and a wealth of other acts from all over Australia.

For more information, accommodation options and ticket sales visit www.maldonfolkfestival.com. Get in early for discounted tickets prior to 30th September 2010.

Youth Scholarships for Summer School

The Illawarra Folk Festival (13-16th January 2011) is offering 20 youth scholarships to talented and enthusiastic young musicians (18 years and under) to attend the Illawarra Folk Festival Summer School.

The Summer School gives musicians of all ages the chance to explore a broad range of musical traditions in an open and fun environment, with a rare opportunity to learn from renowned icons. These include folk musicians such as Eric Bogle, who wrote ‘The Band Played Waltzing Matilda’. With over 30 sessions to choose from, the program is designed to cater to a broad range of musical interests and includes workshops on singing, songwriting, guitar, fiddle, banjo, Irish whistle, accordion and percussion.

David De Santi, Artistic Director of the Illawarra Folk Festival, says ‘The Illawarra Folk Summer School is a great opportunity to increase awareness of folk music traditions and provide opportunities for musicians of all ages to build on their skills’.

The Summer School is held 10am-5pm on 12th and 13th January at the Northern Illawarra Uniting Church, Princes Hwy, Bulli, just across the road from the Illawarra Folk Festival.

Applications for youth scholarships close on 30th November. Forms available at 0414 680 123, [email protected]

Folk In The Foothills

Sunday, 17th October will see the 8th Illawarra Folk in the Foothills one day Festival. This now iconic event is held in the foothills of the Illawarra Escarpment at the beautiful Jamberoo Valley Lodge. It will again be the venue for a big day out for Folk enthusiasts when they gather in its magnificent ambience, to hear music and verse performed by a great array of renowned interstate and local performers.

Already those great satirists from Canberra’s, Shortis and Simpson have been booked. There will be real Celtic Music with local band Riogh while travelling up from Melbourne will be Bluegrass Band the Stetson Family. Funny man and poet, Jim Haynes will kick off the program in the morning with a poets breakfast, so folks should bring along their poems and ‘avago’

Bob Campbell from Gulgong will be presenting his radio program on Jimmy Governor as well as his own brand of Australiana in song, tune and verse. Victoria is further represented by the ‘Irish Nightingale’, Maria Forde and Shantyman, Vince Brophy. The tradition is not being neglected with Wongawilli and the ‘No such Thing’ band while the Wollongong Welsh Choir and the Tribal Jewels Belly Dancers and the Greek band Zorba’s Kefi will add a touch of the multicultural. Bowral House from the Highlands and the Wollongong Conservatorium World Music band will round off the program.

The Folk in the Foothills was the last performance in the Illawarra by Alistair Hulett before his untimely death. It is fitting therefore that a tribute concert is held for Alistair and this will be one of the day’s highlights.

Jamberoo is about a two hour drive from Sydney and Canberra. The Lodge is situated at the foot of the Illawarra escarpment on the Jamberoo Mountain Road.

Tickets will be limited and there will be no individual concert tickets. Ticket bookings 1300 887 034 or over the internet from www.illawarrafolkclub.org.au

aCCommodatIoN oFFerThe Jamberoo Valley Lodge is

offering a special deal to stay at the resort– 02 4236 0269.

Tickets purchased by COB 15th October are just $35 a saving of $10 Russell Hannah


folk news

dance newsThe Loaded Dog Turns 20! The Loaded Dog Folk Club turns 20 this year. The Dog had it's debut on Sat-urday 27th September 1990 at the An-nandale Neighbourhood Centre. Carole Garland and friends realised the upstairs hall with it's wonderful acoustics was the perfect place to establish a Folk Club with a heavy emphasis on singing, a tradition that still continues. Over the years under four managers (Carole, the late Richard Mills, Greg Bull and San-dra Nixon) the Club has booked the best local, intrastate, interstate and interna-tional folk acts, and the famous singing audience has supplied the harmonies. We're celebrating our birthday in the best possible Dog way, with a night of singing, with lots of chorus songs! Carole Garland, trad and evergreen singer, sometimes with concertina; the legendary John Dengate - singer, poet, songwriter, parody writer, busker; The Roaring Forties who have been singing shanties and other great chorus songs since they were an Ensemble of Fat Bearded Shantymen; Miguel Heatwole, man of a million songs and choir direc-tor extraordinaire; Gerry Myerson who is a mine of American folk songs; Kate Maclurcan (owner of a beautiful voice, champion of refugees), Bob and Marga-ret Fagan singing founders of a musical dynasty; and the wonderful Dog audi-ence who will add more harmonies!The Loaded Dog is Sydney's finest acoustic folk venue - showcasing the best acoustic folk music has to offer, from guitar to autoharp, solo voice to community choir. (No amplification!, no mikes!) Over the years the Dog has presented hundreds of acts - accompanied & unac-companied singers, bands, choirs, musi-cians, poets, storytellers, even dancers!

RFDS Contra DanceJohn Short reports on the Granville Contra in July: ‘There were 95 dancers (a great turn out) and, with donations, we will be sending a cheque to the Roy-al Flying Doctor Service for $1,603.16. I caught up with some of the dancers at Pennant Hills on [the following] Monday night and, without exception, they loved it.’ Next year’s contra for the Royal Flying Doctor Service will start earlier: 7-11pm.

Newcastle Contra DanceOn Saturday, 25th September, the Newcastle and Hunter Valley Folk Club will host Newcastle’s first Contra Dance, with Sydney’s resident contra dance band, Pastrami on Ryebuck, and Julie Bishop calling. If you haven’t tried contra before, you have a delight in store for you. It is the most fun, flowing, forgiving form of social dance you could imagine – all done at a brisk walk, and with a repeating pattern each time through. It will be held at the Wesley Church Hall, 150 Beaumont St, Hamilton, at 7.30pm, and admission will be $14, concession $12, NHVFC members $10, and under-16 free. Enq, Bill 4946 5602. There is a flyer at users.tpg.com.

Many Cornstalk readers will know Patricia from her folk activism over many years, most especially through the dance scene, her involvement in sessions - especially at the James Craig - and through her work as a volunteer at 2MBS-FM.

On 24th March this year, she was coming down some concrete stairs at 2MBS-FM - carefully as she is 75 and walks with a stick. However the railing she was holding on to came away from the wall and she fell heavily breaking a femur in her thigh. This was a calami-tous event but Patricia is a very resilient woman and was back home after about six weeks in the Royal North Shore Hospital.

Patricia spent four weeks at home with a walking frame, but she was in in-tense pain and her doctor found she had two cracked vertebra. Somewhat belat-edly, she was given a full body scan and it turned out that the femur in her other leg had also been broken in the fall.

Now in the Concord Repatriation Hospital, Patricia had to face more complications when she developed an infection from the second leg operation. She’s had a series of procedures to drain the infection in her leg and is now fitted with a vac pac that sucks out the nasties

And there’s more. The doctors dis-covered she has secondary cancer in the spine - not sure where the primary site of the cancer was - probably the breast.

Patricia will be moving to the Rehabilitation section of Concord - far preferable to the hostel accommodation that had been contemplated.

Patricia also said how much she ap-preciates the phone calls and cards she has received and the support she’s had since her accident.

I would urge anyone who hasn’t been in touch to make contact - and you know Patricia: she doesn’t like people to paint rosy pictures when the reality is plainly not auspicious. Keep it honest and light-hearted and tell her what’s happening in your life. - Margaret Walters.

Klezmer lessons?Ernie Gruner (from Melbourne, and Jugularity, Bohemian Nights, etc) will be in Sydney in September. If you are interested in a possible Klezmer work-shop or lessons, 8th to 12th September, please email him at [email protected]. There is more information about him and his teaching at www.erniegruner.com

The Indomitable Patricia Early

More information about the life of The Dog can be found on the Folk Federa-tion's website jam.org.auMC’s on the night - Sandra Nixon, Greg Bull and Carole GarlandAnnandale Neighbourhood Centreupstairs, 79 Johnston StAnnandale $14/12, Saturday 25th September, 8pm.www.theloadeddog.org.au


Twenty Five Years On The sudden death of Declan Affley,

inspirational singer and musician on 27th June, 1985, at the age of 45, shocked everyone who knew and admired him.

It is now 25 years since Declan’s death and, for some, his loss is still keenly felt. We are holding a concert on Saturday afternoon 11th September at the Gaelic Club to celebrate this “rake and rambling man”. There will be contributions from a dozen of his friends and family - see the display ad for details - and an opportunity after the formal concert for everyone who’s interested to participate in a session which will continue on until late.

Declan was involved with music from an early age and was well known nationally for his singing, his deep resonant voice, subtle guitar accompaniments based on an appreciation of the Irish Harp, and for his witty, pithy commentaries between songs. Interested in a wide variety of musical styles, he was ardent about Irish traditional music, and also sang songs of the British Isles, Australia and New Zealand. His extensive repertoire included songs by contemporary songwriters such as Don Henderson, Harry Robertson and John Dengate.

Declan was born in Cardiff, South Wales, 8th September, 1939, to an Irish/Welsh Catholic working class family. Some of his earliest memories were of his dad playing Scottish pipes at St. Patrick’s Day marches and attending Irish Ceilidhs and Declan learnt many songs from him including “Crushkeen Lan”.

After completing his Leaving Certificate, he joined the Welsh Merchant Navy at the age of 16. He rose to the rank of Second Mate before jumping ship and coming to live in Australia in 1959. Based in Sydney, he worked for several years on east coast ships as an AB (able bodied seaman). When on shore leave, he sang in “low dives and pubs” including “Push” pubs the Royal George, Sydney and Tattersalls, Melbourne. Irish rebel and other folksongs were sung with enthusiasm in these pubs and this is where he met singers Brian Mooney, Paul Marks, Don Ayrton and Martin Wyndham-Read.

Declan became a regular performer at Sydney’s Troubadour Coffee Lounge,

Edgecliff, and later Traynor’s Folk Club, Melbourne, and was a frequent guest at Sydney and Melbourne folk venues, and a familiar face at national and local folk festivals. He also toured Indonesia, New Guinea and New Zealand.

Declan is probably best remembered for his rendition of Irish folk song “Carrickfergus”, although he also had special affinity with songs such as “An Bunnan Bui – The Yellow Bittern” and “Do you think that I do not know?”, a Henry Lawson poem, set to music by Chris Kempster. As well as guitar, Declan played tin whistle, banjo and fiddle; he later took up the uileann pipes which became his passion.

In 1972 he toured Ireland with Peter O’Shaughnessy and Marion Henderson in The Restless Years, a dramatic production of Australian history illustrated by stories, poems and folksongs based on the 1966 award winning ABC TV program, which he also sang and played in.

As well as involvement in radio programs such as The Australian Legend and Write it Down for Me and TV programs, Declan appeared in several films including Peter Weir’s The Last Wave, and Richard Lowenstein’s Strikebound, where he was musical director as well as having an acting role and singing songs such as “The blackleg miner”.

Declan started the group “The Wild Colonial Boys” in Melbourne in 1969, which combined Irish and Australian music. Band members, including Declan, appeared in Tony Richardson’s Ned Kelly film.

Scorning pretension and bullshit, Declan was modest about his achievements, and never sought fame or money for his music. He was happy to share his musical skills and had the rare ability to enthuse others. He gave generously of his time and skills to causes he believed in.

In 1984/85 Declan taught fiddle and banjo at the Eora Centre, an Aboriginal Cultural Centre in Redfern, Sydney.

Warnings and censorship for performing political/satirical songs merely reinforced his commitment to singing these songs in public. He understood the power of song and wrote: “Nowadays the laws of slander

and libel protect the culpable against the written word, but beware of the song. Somebody’s singing somewhere and people are starting to listen again.”Colleen Z Burke

Declan is survived by his wife, Colleen Burke; his daughter Bridie Burke and son, Paddy Affley and remembered in National awards presented at National Folk Festivals: the Declan Affley Songwriting Award and the Declan Affley Youth Encouragement Award.

Solo Recordings –Rake and Rambling Man, LP Score Label, Peter Mann Recordings, Melbourne, 1967.The Day the Pub Burned Down, M7 Records, Sydney, 1970.Declan Affley – LP Record and tape, TAR 020, Sydney, posthumous, 1987Declan Affley CD, Australian Heritage series, Melbourne, 2003.This article is edited down from a longer one published in Trad & Now, 2004

Folk TraxThe good thing about September

is that winter has finished and spring is here. That means the festival season is not far away either. At Folk Trax we celebrate this with a few new items online.

Peter Hicks joined us with “ The day the market died” A great CD to take with you and listen to what Peter has to say. Also new online is Tiffany Eckhardt with Dave Steel. “Sunday” should never be too far away from your CD player. Another great effort from this pair.

Local Adelaide band “Creole Cowboyz “ want you to “Get Up & Dance”. If you’re not a fan of Cajun music yet have a listen to this one, it’s a whole lot of fun. All locally written titles, Australian at its best.

Bernard Bolan’s “The quirky works of Bernard Bolan” is one of the bestsellers. Supply however is getting short so be quick if you like Bernard Bolan and with our 10% discount to Folk Federation, Folk Alliance members and readers of the “Folk Rag” you’re getting real value.

We always happy to receive new CDs for Folk Trax. If you would like consignment information just email us at [email protected] I will send it to you.Henk and Jan de Weerd

DECLAN AFFLEY A Rake and Rambling Man


folk contactsGosford Scottish Country Dance Society7-10pm, Church of Christ, Henry Parry Drive, Wyoming. Cecily Cork 4384 3527, Jan McCudden 4329 5537Greek Folk DancePan Macedonian Assoc Building, Railway Pde, Sydenham from 7pm onwards. Adult classes from 7.15 pm, Vasilios Aligiannis, tel/fax 9708 1875 [email protected] Folk Dancing for older women School terms only, 9-10am beginners, 10-11am advanced. Bankstown Older Women’s Wellness Centre, Police and Community Youth Club, cnr Meredith St and French Ave. Gabrielle 9728 7466, Alita 9798 9269Irish Set Dance class, Irish Gaelic Club, 64 Devonshire St, Surry Hills. 8-9.30pm. Alarna 0401 167 910.Sutherland Shire Bush Dance Group Uniting Church, 4 Gosport St, Cronulla, 7.30-10pm. $3. Beginners most welcome. Partners not necessary.Mike 9520 2859Sutherland Shire Folk Dance GroupGymea Bay Scout Hall, June Place, 10am. Kaye Laurendet - 9528 4813ThursdayEnglish Country Dancing (Advanced) for the over 50’s 2-4pm. School for Seniors, Wesley Mission, Pitt St. Sydney. (Oppositive back of Hilton Hotel.)Blue Labyrinth International Folk Dancefrom 7pm, Baptist Church Hall, King St Glenbrook. Jo Barrett 4739 6498Greek Folk DanceSt Gerassimos Church Hall, 21 Henry St Leichhardt. 6 pm onwards. Adult classes from 7.15 Vasilios Aligiannis, tel/fax 9708 1875 [email protected] Irish Ceili Dancers Kingsgrove Uniting Church Hall, 289A Kingsgrove Rd (cnr Moreton Avenue, Children’s step dancing 6pm, adults step dancing 7pm. Set and ceili dancing 8-10.30pm. Margaret and Bill Winnett 9150 6765. email: [email protected] Colonial and Folk Dancers Every Friday, St Andrews Ch Hall, cnr Trelawney/Rutledge Sts, Eastwood (next to BBC), Colonials’ Dance each 5th Friday evening. Anthony and Lisa 9873 4805. International DancingSedenka Folk Dancers, Rozelle Neighbourhood Centre, 665A Darling St Rozelle. 8-llpm, $3. Chris Wild 9560 2910.Scottish Country DancingAdult classes, beginners welcome, children 6.30 -7.30pm, adults 8-10.30pm, Beecroft Primary School, $2. Sheena Caswell 9868 2075, Heather Dryburgh 9980 7978Scottish Country DancingCaringbah Seniors Hall, 386 Port Hacking Rd, Car-ingbah (rear Library), 8pm. Beginners/other levels. G. Milton 9524 4943, Erica Nimmo 9520 4781SaturdayBush Folk Dances, by Bush Dance Assoc.2nd Sat. Feb-Dec 6.30 - 10pm. New Year’s Eve 8pm-midnight. $20/$15/$10. $5 disc for early bookings. Pennant Hills Community Centre, 60 Yarrara Rd. John 9873 3138/ 0416 212 136, [email protected] Music Club Bush DancesFeb-Dec (not Easter), 8-12pm, $17/$14/$12 incl. supper, children to 12 free. Beecroft Community Ctr 1st Sat, Helen 9626 7816; Balmain High School hall, Terry St, Rozelle, 3rd Sat, Don 9642 7949Central Coast Bush Dance4th Sat, 8-12pm, East Gosford Progress Hall, Henry Parry Dr and Wells St, $15/$12. Beate 4323 3356. Robyn 4344 6484.International Folk DanceChildren’s classes, 6-18 years, Pennant Hills Com. Centre, morning. Carol Maddocks, 9905 1563Irish Ceili Dances, live Ceili bands, 4th Sats, 7.30 - 11.30pm. Irish Gaelic Club, 64 Devonshire St, Surry Hills.

daNCeMondayBush Music Club Dance WorkshopBeginners, experienced, 7.30pm, Pennant Hills Community Centre, downstairs. Except Jan. and public holidays. Felicity 9456 2860International Folk DancingSchool term, Earlwood Senior Citizens Centre, 362 Homer St 10am-noon. Gwynne 9558 4753Scottish Country Dancing for beginners, with ‘Scots on the Rocks’, Fort St Public School, Observatory Hill, Sydney, 6.30-7.30pm. Nea 9994 7110, Lynn 9268 1246, SC [email protected], http://www.rscds.org.auBelly Dance, basic/beginners 7pm, choreography 8pm, Girraween Hall, 17 Tungarra Rd. Vera Myronenko 9665 9713TuesdayBlue Mountains Scottish Country Dancers Catholic Church Hall, 7-9pm, Wentworth St, $3 Verley Kelliher, 4787 5968, [email protected] Carol Gardner 4751 6073/[email protected] Folk DanceBankstown RSL Club - 32 Kitchener Pde - Bankstown 6pm onwards.Vasilios Aligiannis, tel/fax: 97081875 [email protected] Dance ClassUltimo, 8-10pm. Gary Dawson 9559 4485. [email protected] Country Dancing, SydneyPlayford Dance Group 3rd Tues, 7.30-10.00pm, Uniting Church Hall, The Cres, Berala. Ring Patricia 9649 6978 or Mike or Ros on 9929 8193 for further details.Scottish Country DancingSt John’s Uniting Church Hall, Coonanbarra Rd, Wahroonga, 7.30-10.30pm. All welcome. Catherine Bonner 9489 5027Scottish Country DancingFort Street School, Observatory Hill, City. 6pm to 8pm Nea MacCulloch 9904 1358(a/h) or Lynn 8244 9618(w)Sutherland Shire Folk Dance GroupInternational Dancing, Gymea Bay Scout Hall, June Place, 7.30-9pm. Kaye Laurendet 9528 4813Turkish Dance ClassLidcombe Community Centre, 8-10pm. Yusuf Nidai 9646 1166Ukrainian (Cossack) Dancing Class for fit and energetic young people (16-23yrs), 7.30 pm to 10.00 pm. Ukrainian Hall 59 Joseph Street, Lidcombe. Jaros Iwanec 9817 7991, [email protected] /www.veselka.com.auInternational Folk Dance class - Open Door, Georges Hall Senior Citizens, Birdwood Rd, 11.30am-12.30pm. Gabrielle 9728 7466, [email protected]“The Dance Buffet”, wide variety taught, Liverpool City Pipe Band Hall, Woodward Park (next to Whitlam Centre), Memorial Ave, 7.30-9.30pm. $8 ($5 conc). Nicholai 9822 7524, mob 0407 178 228WednesdayAlbion Fair, North-West Morris DancingLilyfield Community Centre, Cecily and O’Neill Sts, 7.45pm. Angie Milce 9817 3529Australian Heritage DancersAnnandale Neighbourhood Centre, 79 Johnston St, 8 -10pm. Jim Young 9412 3721 [email protected] - australianheritagedancers.org.auBalmoral Scottish Country Dance Group7.00-9.15pm, Seniors’ Centre, Mosman Square, Mosman. Nell Morgan 9981 4769.Epping Scottish Country Dance ClubSt Aidan’s Church Hall, Downing St, 7.30-10pm. All levels welcome. Clare Haack 9484 5947 [email protected]

CHoIrsMondayA Choired Taste, Glebe, led by David Westmore, 9716 7016Bright Star Singers Ashfield, led by Mary-Jane Field, 9797-6126Ecopella. Erskineville, led by Miguel Heatwole, 9810 4601 [email protected] Choir. All voices welcome. Randwick 7.15 - 9.15pm. [email protected] Bound Groove Train. Petersham, led by Linda Calgaro, 9518 4135Inner West Chamber Choir, Leichhardt, led by Rachelle Elliott. 9797 1917. [email protected]. Manly, led by Karen Smith, 0405 221 113Martenitsa. Ultimo, led by Mara & Llew Kiek, 47514910 People’s Chorus Newcastle, led by Rod Noble, 49 623432Unaccompanied Baggage. North Sydney, led by Stuart Davis, [email protected], Katoomba, ledby Rachel Hore 4759 2456, [email protected], Neutral Bay, led by David Westmore, 9716 7016Ecopella. Illawarra area (alternate Tuesdays), led by Miguel Heatwole 9810 4601, [email protected] Roc Lawson, led by Rachel Hore, 47592456, [email protected] Honeybees. East Sydney, led by Dynes Austin. Contact Jenny Jackson, 9816 4577 [email protected] Sydney Trade Union ChoirSydney City, contact [email protected] WednesdayChoralation. Abbosford (school terms), contact Marga-ret Grove [email protected] Ecopella. Upper Mts., contact Kate 47 825529The Heathens. Blackheath, day time 12-pm. Led by Chris Wheeler 4787 5725 [email protected], Josephine. Glebe, led by David Westmore, 9716 7016Stampadowns. Camperdown, led by Gerard Pat-terson. Contact David 9568 5237 or Shayn 9799 7439 ThursdayBouddi Voice. Kincumber (school terms), led by C & C Sainsbury, contact 43 683270Chorella Community Choir. Richmond, contact Ellen 4578 2975 Cleftomaniacs. Waterloo, led by Gary Smith, [email protected] Solidarity Choir. Newtown, led by Miguel Heatwole, 9810 4601, [email protected] FridayThe Sydney Street Choir. CBD, led by Peter Lehner 0425 268 771The Sydney Welsh Choir (Men and Women) meet on Wednesday Evenings at Concord Baptist Church Hall. Reh. 7pm to 9pm. 20 to 30 performances a year. Viv 47 39 0384, Warwick 9451 7806,[email protected], women’s a cappella choir. Woodford. Led by Alison Jones 4759 2880Sunday Blue Mountains Trade Union Choir. Upper Mts., contact Kate 47 82 5529


musIC IN CoNCertTuesdayThe Screw Soapers Guild - Writers Presenters & Listeners Group 4th Tues, 7.30pm, stories, poems, songs and conversation. Albert 9600 7153, email: [email protected], website: www.folkclub.com/folkodyssey/WednesdayWisefolk Club Last Wed in month, 11am-2.30pm, Toongabbie Bowling Club, 12 Station Rd, lunch at club bistro. Sonia 9621 2394 Allen 9639 7494, Thursday‘Posers & Composers’ performance session, every Thursday, Newtown RSL (1st floor), 52 Enmore Rd, 7.30pm - 11pm. Free. To book a spot & enq Dennis Aubrey 0408 452 464 [email protected] Folk Club2nd Thurs concert night. All ages. Members are welcome to join us at any of our concerts, do a floor spot. Enjoy a friendly , sociable night’s entertainment, support local talent. These artists are all superb musicians!! Contact Jenny 9576 2301.FridayHornsby Kuring-Gai Folk Club3rd Fri, 8pm, Each month Beatrice Taylor Hall, rear Willow Park Community Centre, Edgeworth David Ave, Guest artist and floor spots, light supper provided BYO grog. Barry Parks 9807 9497 [email protected] Folk Club, 1st Friday, Wollongong City Diggers Club, cnr Burelli & Church Streets, 1300 887 034 www.illawarrafolkclub.org.au Springwood Neighbourhood Centre Acoustic Club, or SNC Acoustic Club. Regular folk nights on the 4th Friday of each month (Feb - Nov), 8pm $7/$5 Springwood Neighbourhood Centre, Macquarie Rd, Springwood. (next to Civic Centre). Visitors and floor performers welcome. Enquiries, Mark Hand 02 4721 4230 or [email protected] Music Club2nd and 4th Fri 8pm, Northmead Scout Hall, Whitehaven Road, Northmead. A session always happens so bring instruments. Allen Davis 9639 7494 [email protected]. or Ray Pulis 9899 2102.SaturdayBluegrass & Traditional Country Music Society of Aust. 1st Sat, March-December Sydney get-together. Annandale Neighbourhood Centre, 79 Johnston St, Annandale. Band workshop 7pm, concert 8.15pm, jamming all night. All welcome: $5/7. (02) 9456 1090 www.bluegrass.org.au

lllawarra Folk Club, 3rd Saturday, Wollongong City Diggers Club, cnr Burelli & Church Streets, 1300 887 034 www.illawarrafolkclub.org.au Loaded Dog Folk Club4th Sat, Annandale Neighbourhood Centre, 79 Johnston St, 8pm. Sandra Nixon, 9358 4886, [email protected]. www.theloadeddog.org.auMacquarie Towns Music Club3rd Sat,7.30pm Alternates between concert and round robin jam session format with concerts featuring a guest artist supported by a ‘blackboard concert’ Richmond Neighbourhood Centre, West Market St, .Contact Dez Williams at 4578 5215 [email protected] Shack. 1st Sat, presents 21st century original,contemporary and traditional folk music at the Tramshed, 1395a Pittwater Rd, Narrabeen at 7:30. BYO drinks and nibblies. Contact Rhonda on 0416 635 856 or email Kathleen at [email protected] Folk ClubCentral Coast, 4th Sat. in month 7pm CWA Hall, Woy Woy. (opposite Fisherman’s Wharf), The Boulevard, Woy Woy. Admission: $7 members/$8 conc. & other folk club mems/$10 non members. Everyone welcome Tel. Frank or Marilyn 4341 4060, Email: [email protected] www.troubadour.org.au

sessIoNs & Free WorKsHoPsMondayBush Music ClubCommunity Centre, 44/142 Addison Rd, Marrickville, 7.30pm. Music workshop. All singers and musicians welcome. Bob 9569 7244, [email protected] Music Session: Every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month from 7.30 – 10.30pm @ The Shamrock Inn, Asquith Leagues Club, Alexandra Pd. Waitara (short walk from station). It’s an open session and all musicians are welcome with focus on tunes rather than songs. Phone Norm 9489 5786/[email protected] music lessons, beginners and advanced, flute, fiddle, whistle, guitar, concertina. Irish Gaelic Club, Surry Hills, 0413 941 459, [email protected] Out at The Gaelic Club(2nd Friday of the month) singing sessions. Follows Politics in the Pub. Upstairs, 64 Devonshire St, Surry Hills near Central Station. 8pm approx. All welcome. Free. [email protected] Frog Hotel. Jam Night. Cnr Bridge & Macquarie Sts, Windsor. 7.30pm to late. Mark 0419 466 004Gosford Bush PoetsLast Wednesday night of every month 7pm. The Gosford Hotel, cnr of Mann & Erina Sts Gosford. Everyone welcome to share in night of fun, friendship and great poetry. Contact Vic Jefferies, 02 96394911 or [email protected] AcousticTune Session Night 4th Friday of the monthfrom 7.30pm Gymea Tradies Club,Kingsway, Gymea (Kaimea room) Stringed and other instruments welcome Ability to play with others and have basic chord knowledge Welcome to listen Ph Ian Knight MOB 0438830374Blackheath Folk Club, 1st Thurs, 7.30pm, Ivanhoe Hotel, cnr Gt Wstn Hwy and Govetts Leap Rd. Christine Davies, Peter Duggan 4787 7246

Irish Music SessionsGaelic Club Surry Hills, 7pm. Irish music lessons, beginners and advanced, flute, fiddle, whistle, guitar, concertina. Irish Gaelic Club, Surry Hills, 0413 941 459, [email protected] Beer & Cheese NightThemed music nights, 1st Fri (except holidays), 8-10pm. Bring something to sing, eat, drink. Bush Music Club, Hut 44, Addison Rd Community Centre, 142 Addison Rd, Marrickville. 9569 7244, [email protected] Suburbs Poetry Group1st Friday, Church in the Market Place, Bondi Junction. 6.30-8.30pm. Gina 9349 6958Springwood Neighbourhood Centre Acoustic Club 4th Fri, (Feb - Nov) 8pm, $7/$5, Springwood Neighbourhood Centre, Macquarie Rd (next to library and Oriental Hotel.) Visitors and floor performers welcome, Theresa 47518157, Jeannette 4754 4893SaturdayFairlight Folk Acoustic LoungeHeld 4 times a year, Feb, May, Aug. Nov (usually 1st Sat) 7.45pm. A comfortably enticing, relaxed environment in which to see quality live acoustic music. Ajfjter show - jam. BYO drinks and nibbles. Light refreshments available. William St Studios, Fairlight (The Baptist Church down from Sydney Rd. Contact Rosie 9948 7993. [email protected]

SundaySydney Scottish Fiddlers1st and 3rd Sun, 2-5pm, New Church, 4 Shirley Rd Roseville. All ages welcome. Trish 9416 2402.Irish Music SessionKellys, King Street, Newtown, 6pm. Enq. 9559 6300Music Session Hero of Waterloo, cnr Lower Fort St and Windmill Street, The Rocks. 6-10pm. Brendan 9818 4864Irish Music Session. 3rd Sunday. Bennet Hotel, Hamilton, 4-7.30pm Roz and Shane Kerr 44967 3167Irish Music Sessions - Dicey Riley’s, Wollongong 2pm.Hotel Illawarra Wollongong, 3rd Sunday, 3pm, spoken word, 5pm acoustic music

$10. Aisling 0413 941 459, [email protected] and Old Time Dance2nd Sat, 8pm, Uniting Church, 9-11 Bay St, Rockdale. $3 incl. supper. Chris Thom 9587 9966Scottish and Old Time DancingOrkney and Shetland Assoc. 3rd Sat, 8-11 pm. St David’s Hall, Dalhousie St, Haberfield. $3 inc. supper. Visitors most welcome. Jean Cooney 9874 5570.Macedonian Dance ClassRockdale. 6.30-8.30pm, $5. Y Kaporis 0412 861 187Mortdale Scottish DancersLearners night (for learners and experienced), 7.30- 9.30pm. Pensioners Welfare Club Hall, 76 Pitt Street, Mortdale. Pam Jehan 9580 8564.Sutherland Shire Folk Dance GroupInternational Dancing Como Girl Guides Hall, 10-11.30am. Kaye Laurendet 9528 4813Linnéa Swedish FolkdancersEstonian House, 141 Campbell St, Surry Hills. New members welcome. For times contact Graeme Traves 9874 4194, [email protected]

focus on folk 2MBS-FM 102.5MHz 6PM Saturday

In co-operation with 2MBS-FM, Sydney’s first FM community radio station operating on 102.5 MHz, Folk Federation brings you an hour of folk music at 6PM on 2nd and 4th Saturdays of each month.

Anyone with a CD that you would like to add to the library collection for consideration for airway please forward to Focus on Folk, Post Office Box A182, Sydney South 1235.

11th Sept - John Milce will present a selection of great folk music25th Sept - Kate Delaney will host the program


Is Forbes and the Lachlan region of NSW the Folklore Centre of Australia? Let me put my case to you.

Buried within 25 metres of each other in the Forbes cemetery are the remains of two of Australia’s best known bushranger dynasties, Ben Hall and Kate Kelly, the (in)famous sister of Ned. Not buried however are the songs, poems and stories of these people along with the other well known bushrangers Frank Gardiner, Johnny Gilbert and of course the legend, stories and songs of the famous Escort Gold Robbery, the richest robbery in Australian history. The Ben Hall et al bushranger ballads are recognised as among the best in our folk song tradition. ‘The Streets of Forbes’ is probably Australia’s best known and most sung bushranger ballad.

The cause of all this bushranging activity, of course, was the rich Lachlan (Forbes) diggings and here again we have a large number of songs, yarns and poems reflecting on this 1860’s era. Thankfully many of these have been preserved in our National Library of Australia (NLA), Folklore collection.

After the gold petered out, although it is rumoured there is still a lot left, agricultural enterprise took over. The songs of shearers, drovers, and women and men on the land that mention the Lachlan are numerous, what bush band worth its salt has not performed ‘The Lachlan Tigers’.

Poets, sure, we can quote the works of Will Ogilvie, Breaker Morant who both lived and worked in the region and Henry Lawson, whose birth was

registered in Forbes.

Traditional music and dance – the regional, collected tunes of Harry Schaefer, Colin Charlton, Dave Mathias, Ebb Wren and others are played by musicians Australia wide and there is also a strong regional

dance content that has been recorded. Thankfully these tunes, stories and

dances are also preserved in the NLA collection.

I rest my case.For the last couple of years the

local Council have supported a Festival on the NSW October long weekend to acknowledge Ben’s presence and recognise the area’s folklore contribution. This year we are adding a strong music, performance and dance component. We have many well known ‘folkies’ coming along to share their talents including Collector, Chloe and Jason Roweth, Emu Creek/Gay Charmers band Christina Mimmocchi and Chris Wheeler, Al Musgrove, The Goldfields Brass Band (Richard Evans et al – can’t wait to hear them!), Greg O’Leary, Wongawilli Dancers, Canberra Bush Dance Display Group, Sydney Irish Ceili and more !

Our concept is to get back to the old style Festival and gathering where EVERYONE is involved, be they spectator, singer, poet, dancer or musician – a real sense of community.

The Festival will be centred around the historic Forbes Town Square which consists of Victoria Park, the beautiful (1899) Town Hall which is the venue for dance and concert and the Vandenberg Hotel with its wide verandahs. So everything will be in the one place.

Jason and Chloe are organising the Sunday program, which has not been finalised, but definite events are.Ongoing performances in the park

over the weekend with the opportunity

for musicians and performers to play acoustically. Dancers are also welcome to join in.Dance displays, workshops and

dancesAn Oldtime Dance in the Town

Hall on Saturday night with the theme ‘Dances of the Goldfields – THEN and NOW. This aspect of the festival is in the capable hand of Peter Ellis and will be supported by a local dance couple Ross and Elvy Quirk who will handle the NOW component. Band for the night will be a combination of Emu Creek/Gay Charmers and many friends.A Goldfields Music Hall on

Sunday night – goodness knows what will happen with all the people we have here. Singing dancing and everything in between!A continuous session area in the

Vandenberg hotel for musicians, singers and dancers. Those verandahs are a great spot for a tune as well.Craft, food, displays, holdups,

bushranger tours, busking all over the weekend.

The best part is the cost – NOTHING for all the open air events and only a few dollars to get into the Dance and Music Hall. Not often you get this value.

Country folk are friendly and as a lifelong resident of Forbes I know that it is a fact and, yes, I am biased. We are pretty laid back here and this will be the theme of our gathering. Sure, there are organised parts of the program, if you want to be organised, but the opportunity is there to make your own fun, as it was in the old days.

Please contact Rob Willis 02 68512687 [email protected] or Chloe Roweth for further information on the Forbes Ben Hall Festival 1st to 4th October 2010

The Forbes Shire Council website is also handy and they can provide you with accommodation and camping details. http://www.forbes.nsw.gov.au/events/pages/3838.htmlroB WILLIs

Rob Wills is a collector of Folklore and Social History for the National Library of Australia.

The Folklore Centre of Australia

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NSW - state of play Songs of Chris KempsterSongs of Henry Lawson

The Tin Shed Rattlers One for the Road’Does it sometimes seem to our readers that most ‘bush’ bands are based in the cities? Meet the Tin Shed Rattlers, currently an 8-member band who are based loosely around south west-ern NSW, from Wagga to Narrandera to Griffith to Grong Grong. (And I thought I had troubles organising rehearsals!) The original line up of this band came together in 1971 and I believe they’re up to about 40 players through the band thus far, with one original member, Noel Raynes, still going strong. Here is a band that takes music and dancing (and a few laughs to I would guess) to where people need it - rustic country halls in drought-ridden regions of the state. Their cd reveals that they know a thing or two about entertaining as well as making music and I’d venture to suggest to festival organisers that this band might be a popular choice at the right folk festival. ‘One for the Road’ introduces a competent, cheerful group of musicians who have recorded a mix of generally well known Australian, British, Irish and American songs and tunes just as they would play them to a live audience. There are not too many notes or credits on the album but I suspect there are one or two original songs tucked in with the better known numbers, and they blend in very well too.

While this group has many features typical of an unpreten-tious and ‘useful’ bush band and dance band, it also has some special features that must endear it to its audiences. The band includes as its youngest and newest member a tuneful uillean piper, Mark Williamson, as well as 4 convincing lead sing-ers and a couple of backing vocalists. Melody instruments include fiddle, whistle, pipes, mandolin, banjo and harmonica - more than enough to maintain interest and variety of sound while the rhythm section of guitar, bass and light percussion is effective, generally understated and well suited to the styles of music they play. Find them on their website www.tinshed-rattlers.netChristine Wheeler


Bruce has a rare talent . . . the best songwriter I have seen in a long time! (Eric Bogle)That was absolutely f…ing brilliant! (Derek Guille, ABC Radio Melbourne) Bruce Watson is a wordsmith, a teller of tales, a spinner of yarns. He is a contemporary songwriter with lots of stories he tells with passion and integrity. An Australian folk hero!He rocked the festival with a series of hysterically funny songs + heartwrenching songs.

Humph HallSunday 25th July, 2010

Formerly the Allambie Heights Uniting Church, Humph Hall is now the private home of Gial & Wayne. Bookings: (02) 9939 8802 or [email protected] - humphhall.org

Bruce Watson

85 Allambie Road, Allambie Heights

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Humph Hall7.30pm, Sat 18th September, 2010

Trevor Swadling & Harry Dingle are two magnificently well kept secrets of original Australian music. Both poetic & philosophical in their musings on life, love, beauty and the world around them, their music is at once imaginative and extremely moving. For the first time, they come together with their respective bands, Selalu and The Dingle Brothers for a shared bill that will have the walls of Humph Hall come alive with song!

Entry by donation ($15). All proceeds to FreeSchools World Literacy , a non-profit organisation for the purpose of “breaking the cycle of poverty and ignorance through free education”. (freeschools.org). Bookings: 9939 8802 or [email protected] - humphhall.org

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