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dates for your diary March 2011MetropolitanWednesday 2nd►Cloudstreet - Humph Hall. 7pm, 85 Allambie Rd, Allambie Hts. 9939 8802 [email protected] humphhall.orgFriday 4thBMC Beer & Cheese Night.Tritton Hall (Hut 44), Addison Rd Community Centre, 142 Addison Rd, Marrickville. 8-10pm. ‘(Depends on …) which end of the gun?’ The death, late last year, of Bushranging historian Edgar Penzig reminds Bob that we need to think just where we stand in those bushranging songs! Bring songs on the theme, & something to share for supper. $5. Bob 9569 7244, [email protected]

Friday 4th - Saturday 5thNorthern Beaches Music Festival.15 hours of music, 45 great acts over three venues. The Tramshed Community Arts Centre, 1395a Pittwater Rd, Narrabeen. Friday 7-11pm, Saturday 1-11pm. [See article this issue.]

Saturday 5th►Beecroft Bush Dance, with Snake Gully. Beecroft Community Centre, Beecroft Rd (opp Fire Station). 8pm-12. All dances taught. $17, $14, $12, incl. supper. Helen 9626 7816. bushmusic.org.au

►The Loaded Dog. Martin Wyndham-Read (UK). Annandale Neighbourhood Centre, upstairs, 79 Johnston St. 8pm. $ . BYO, supper available. Sandra (02) 9358 4886, www.theloadeddog.org.auSunday 6th►Illawarra Folk Club. Martin Wyndham-Read (UK). + No Such Thing. City Diggers Wollongong, cnr Church & Burelli Sts. 1300 887 034. illawarrafolkclub.org.au►Enzo Toppano & friends - Humph Hall. With George Gola, Barry Crocker, Lorrae Desmond & others. 3pm, 85 Allambie Rd, Allambie Hts. Bookings 9939 8802 [email protected] humphhall.org►Dana Lyons (USA)Cat & Fiddle 452 Darling St Balmain 6pm $25/$20 Tel 9810 7931

Monday 7thBMC Dance Workshop. ‘Old Time & Newer.’ Leader John Short. Pennant Hills Community Centre, Yarrara Rd. 7.30-9.30pm. $7. Felicity 9456 2860

Wednesday 9thTim O’Brien Trio (USA) + Crooked Still (USA)Notes, 25 Enmore Road, Newtown 8pm $45 +bf Tel 95575111The Fagans with Nancy Kerr - Humph Hall. 7pm, 85 Allambie Rd, Allambie Hts. Bookings: 9939 8802 [email protected]) humphhall.orgThursday 10th►Shanty Session. On board ‘James Craig’, Wharf 7, Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour. 7.30pm. $7. Mike 0419 992 119, 9476 3861 (call for parking directions) , Chris 0416 220 237►Martin Simpson (UK)Notes, 25 Enmore Road, Newtown 8pm $38 +bf Tel 95575111►Sutherland Acoustic.Irish themed (wear green), featuring Siobhan O’Donnell from County Sligo. She plays fiddle, bodhran, guitar, is a talented vocalist; has won many “All Ireland” titles, and toured the world with a number of bands. Accompanied by Cameron Mather, a trad musician and singer who plays tenor banjo, guitar, bouzouki and mandolin. He has worked with many visiting Irish artists and at 17 is a star in the making. Floor spots, raffles. Gymea Trade Union Club, Kingsway, Gymea (short walk from station). 7.30pm. $15, $10, FF $12, kids free. Jenny 95762301

Sunday 13thBulgarian Dance Workshop with Lesley Rose, teachin g dances learnt on her recent trip to Bulgaria. Redfern Oval - Community Room (first floor, overlooking Redfern Park), 51 Redfern St. Walk from Redfern or Central stations; bus 309 or 310 to cnr Pitt & Redfern Sts. 10am - 3pm. Tea & coffee available at a kiosk downstairs, or BYO thermos. Sandra 6552 5142, Kaye 9528 4813. www.folkdanceaustralia.org.au/

Monday 14thBMC Dance Workshop. ‘Old Time & Newer.’ Leader John Short. Pennant Hills Community Centre, Yarrara Rd. 7.30-10pm. $7. Felicity 9456 2860ARPARLA (Italy). (harp & violin)- Humph Hall. 7pm, 85 Allambie Rd, Allambie Hts. Bookings: 9939 8802 or [email protected]) humphhall.org

Friday 18thHornsby Ku-ring-gai Folk Club.Kieran Halpin (Scotland). Powerful and passionate, intimate and intense.

He matches his intelligent and thought provoking lyrics with great melodies nd has developed over the years into a writer with a style of his own. All this is underscored by an incisive wit in his introductions which helps an audience to understand where the song comes from and hint at where it might be going. Beatrice Taylor Hall, rear Willow Park Community Centre, Edgeworth David Ave, Hornsby. 8pm (doors 7.30pm). $15. Booking recommended. Candle lit venue, tables can be booked. BYO drinks & nibbles - tea & coffee provided. Barry Parks 9807 9497, [email protected]

Saturday 19thBalmain Bush Dance, with Wallaby Stew. Rozelle Campus, Sydney College, 25 Terry St. 8pm-12. All dances taught. $17, $14, $12, incl. supper. Don or Wendy 9642 7950. bushmusic.org.auIllawarra Folk Club. Gilly Darby (UK/NZ), Ann Vriend (Canada). City Diggers Wollongong, cnr Church & Burelli Sts. 7.30pm. 1300 887 034. illawarrafolkclub.org.au

Monday 21stBMC Dance Workshop. ‘Favourite Couple Dances.’ Leader Don Richmond. Pennant Hills Community Centre, Yarrara Rd. 7.30-10pm. $7. Felicity 9456 2860

Thursday 24thTony McManus (Scotland)Notes, 25 Enmore Road, Newtown 8pm $45 +bf Tel 95575111

Friday 25thCrooked Still (USA)Notes, 25 Enmore Road, Newtown 8pm $35 +bf Tel 95575111►Martyn Wyndham-Read & Iris Bishop (UK) - (+ Kate Delaney & Denis Tracey) - Humph Hall. 7pm, 85 Allambie Rd, Allambie Hts. Bookings: 9939 8802 or [email protected]) humphhall.org

Saturday 26th►The Loaded Dog. Peter Hicks (Tas). Annandale Neighbourhood Centre, upstairs, 79 Johnston St. 8pm. $ . BYO, supper available. Sandra (02) 9358 4886, www.theloadeddog.org.au►The Fagans with Nancy KerrCat & Fiddle 452 Darling St Balmain 8pm $25/$20 Tel 9810 7931

Sunday 27thChristof (Holland/Ireland)Cat & Fiddle 452 Darling St Balmain 6pm $20/$15 Tel 9810 7931


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Master accordionist Enzo Toppano celebrates his 83rd birthday with a concert in Humph HallEnzo Toppano was a child prodigy at the age of 10. The son of Italian migrants who had settled in Broken Hill, Enzo and his brother were urged to take up the piano accordion by their father, who was a professional accordion player. And so began a career spanning more than 70 years.

Enzo and his wife, Peggy Mortimer, appeared in shows all over the world and, when they returned to Australia, they were among the first entertainers to appear on Australian television with their own segment on Sydney’s first TV breakfast show. Later they wrote and appeared in a number of revues and performed gigs in casinos and nightclubs in Las Vegas, New York, the Bahamas and Montreal.

From the mid 1970s to 1981, the Toppanos’ stage was Manly’s Music Loft, where the family appeared in a string of revues, among them, ‘In the Family Way’ (written by Peggy), ‘Once more with feeling’ and ‘Encore’.

In March 1977, Enzo was the subject of a ‘This is your life’ show on Channel 9.

Enzo’s daughter Peta Toppano, is an actress who found success in Australian television. She is best known for her roles in popular television series such as The Young Doctors, Prisoner, and Home & Away, as well as Return to Eden in which she played a “superbitch”.

At Humph Hall, Enzo will perform on the piano and accordion with family and friends including Barry Crocker, Lorrae Desmond, George Golla, Bob Barnard, Paul Baker & Ed Gaston. Early footage of him and his wife will also be shown.

3pm, Sunday 6th March 2011Humph Hall85 Allambie Road, Allambie Heights - humphhall.org. Bookings: (02) 9939 8802 or [email protected]

Monday 28thBMC Dance Workshop. Social Dance Night. Leader John Short. Pennant Hills Community Centre, Yarrara Rd. 7.30-10pm. $7. Felicity 9456 2860

Tuesday 29thThe Cottars (CAN)Cat & Fiddle 452 Darling St Balmain 8pm $25/$20 Tel 9810 7931

Tunji (Workshop) World class and renowned percussionist and accompanist extraordinaire to Linsey Pollack) will be coming up to the Blue Mountains for a week in March. On Saturday March 26th he will be running a workshop for a small group of lucky rhythm-aires. If you are interested or if you know someone who would be the workshop will be held here at Blue Mountain Sound in Hazelbrook (an hour and a bit from Sydney by car and 1.5hrs by train) please let me know. Bookings are strictly limited to no more than 12. Bookings essentialAndy Busuttil, Blue Mountain Services, Post Office Box 575Hazelbrook NSW 2779 0414837367

Strathmannan

Tunji

Crooked Still Band

Tim O’Brien

Martin Simpson UK

Saturday 5thDana Lyons, singer songwriter (“Cows with Guns”). +Paul Spencer. Wesley Church Hall, 150 Beaumont St, Hamilton. 7.30pm. $14, $12, $10; 16 & under free. newcastlehuntervalleyfolkclub.org.auSunday 13thDavid Francey (Canada). Lizotte’s, 31 Morehead St, Lambton (Newcastle). 8.30pm. 4956 2066. www.newcastle.lizottes.com.au/live/Friday 18thMartin Wyndham-Read & Iris Bishop (UK). River Music, Nowra Golf Club, Scenic Drive, North Nowra. 7.30pm. Andrew or Alison 02 4447 5663. kangaroovalleyfolkfestival.com.au/Saturday 26thNewcastle Bush Dance. Wesley Church Hall, 150 Beaumont St, Hamilton. 7.30pm. $14, $12, $10; kids free. newcastlehuntervalleyfolkclub.org.au

The Merry Muse (presented by the Monaro Folk Society)Friday 18thAndy Irvine + Rens Van Der ZalmFriday 25thTony McManus/Strathmannan with Seamus GillCanberra Southern Cross ClubMcCaughey Street, TurnerEnq. 0412 127 882merrymuse.org.au

Barry Crocker


Presidents ReportHello To All

Good news and a good time had by all- a nice way to start this month’s Presidents Report-Just over $1200.00 was raised at the Fundraising concert on the 29th January. Fairlight Folk was full and the music and entertainment wonderful. Again big thanks go to,

Blue Goose, Three’s Company, The Badga River Quartet, Folklore, Cameron The Sound Guy, Andrew and Sue, Penny (for her hospitality), The Mother’s of Intention and Fairlight Folk

Your generosity and talent are very much appreciated. It would be great if someone wished to review the night- I’ll do

my best but as I was in one of the bands and busy with organisational matters I really can’t do the evening and the bands the justice they deserve.

Three’s Company- a marvellous blend of the three voices with a touch of guitar performed a wide range of magical numbers in more than one language. They had the audience laughing, crying and experiencing a whole range of emotions in between; with beautiful harmonies and an accomplished professionalism, which bellies the small amount of time they’ve been making music together as this trio.

The Badga River quartet was a treat. The combination of whistles, low whistle, guitar, fiddle and voice weaving together in their own special way. The music was sometimes hauntingly beautiful and at others storytelling with music at it’s best.

Folklore- I’ll let others comment, though I will say we had greattime especially as it was the first time the four of us have played together for an audience.

Finishing the evening Blue Goose - I had heard very good things about Blue Goose before the evening and they more than delivered. With four very fine musicians sharing their talents so easily and adeptly, they had the audience crying for more. The audience laughing throughout their set with their easy manor and dry humour and the music was a joy.

Hats of to you all for giving us such a special night. Two other things Id like to mention.

We are still on the hunt for a place we can call home. If anyone knows of somewhere we could use to hold events, concerts, meetings and maybe store some things please let us know. Maurie Mulheron has been able to have us look at the Teachers Federation premises for example which may have some potential and they have been generous already to consider us. But if we could find a venue we could truly call our own it would make a substantial difference to what we can offer to our members and the Folk community in general.

Possibilities may include-A bowling club no longer being used regularly, an old church or hall space, Theatre Spaces - or anything you think might work.We’ll keep you posted with suggestions.Probably most importantly, I thought I’d broach the subject of being involved as a member of the Committee. I know the AGM is a few months away but I think now is the right time for people to start thinking about whether or not they might like to be involved. The current committee are giving much to keep the Folk Fed running and doing a good job into the bargain, though I’m not sure all of us will be putting our names into the hat again this year. It’s not an onerous task and there are truly wonderful people involved on a range of levels that make being a part of the Folk Fed more than rewarding. You don’t have to have vast levels of experience in anything in particular, though it never ceases to amaze me just how many and varied the skills are on offer with the current committee already and others who help out in various ways throughout the year.

In some past years there has been somewhat of a feeling that people have been on committee just to keep the Folk Fed going. I know I joined as president for just this reason. Once on committee we have done some truly worthwhile things and in my opinion

done our best to have the Folk Fed be more than just keeping the candles burning. We have raised funds for a variety of worthy causes, organised CD’s and The Henry Lawson Song books (which are a wonderful resource) and Coral, Julie and Wayne do wonders keeping Cornstalk magazine, Folkmail and the Jam website going respectively, all of which play an important role in facilitating the sharing of information amongst the Folk community and beyond.

People don’t have to only be on committee either, you can offer to be involved with any number of projects on whatever scale you choose, just let the Folk fed know you’d like to be involved or you can bring ideas to us that you’d like to see put on the agenda.

It would be nice to have some younger people involved as well; we need representation across all ages if we are to be a vibrant and representative body.

In finishing, I don’t want this to be a plea to people to save Folk Federation of NSW- I don’t personally think we need saving, (though I acknowledge the Folk Fed is worth “saving” should it come to that). We have 40 years of history behind us and hopefully more than 40 years ahead.

I guess for me, personally, it’s a matter of getting involved to create a whole range of things because we want to. To celebrate and be a part of what is a very special community.

The next step is yours, it’s our “Folk Fed” and it’s a wonderful and worthwhile thing to be a part of.

If you have the time and the inclination please feel free to be more involved, even if that means simply renewing your membership and maybe asking others you think might like to be a part of something special to join as well.

Cheers and see you at Cobargo Folk Festival,AnthonyPresidentFolk Federation Of NSW

NOTICEA Special General Meeting of the Folk Federation of NSW is called on 12pm on Friday 22 April in the session bar at the National Folk Festival, Canberra. The reason for the meeting is to approve minor changes to the Constitution to bring it in line with Dept of Fair Trading’s requirements for the setting up and maintenance of a Public Fund (to receive tax deductible donations from individuals and Founda-tions).A copy of the draft Constitution is available on www.jam.org.au or by calling FFNSW Secretary Pam Davis on 0412 730 754. Comments and feedback on the draft are welcome.


MARCH4th - 5th MarchNorther Beaches Music Festivalnorthernbeachesmusicfestival.org5th - 8th MarchBurke and Wills Festivalwww.wineandmusic.net11th - 14th March34th Port Fairy Folk Festivalwww.portfairyfolkfestival.com Enq. (03) 5225 123211th - 14th MarchWomadelaideAdelaide SAwww.womadelaide.com.au or [email protected] 08 82719905

17th - 27th March22nd Brunswick Music Festivalwww.brunswickmusicfestival.com.au

18th - 20th MarchBlue Mountains Music Festivalwww.bmff.org.au [email protected]

25th - 27th MarchYackandandah Folk FestivalYackandanda VICfolkfestival.yackandandah.com

APRIL8th - 10th April St Albans Folk [email protected] (02) 98733378

14th - 17th AprilJane Austen FestivalCanberra ACTjaneaustenfestival.com.au/

21st - 25th April 2011National Folk Festival Canberra. ACTwww.folkfestival.asn.au

21st - 25th April 2011 22nd Annual East Coast Blues & Roots

Blue Mountains Music Festival of Folk, Roots and Blues

The Waifs are now confirmed for the 2011 Blue Mountains Music Festival of Folk, Roots & Blues along with: Justin Townes Earle; Luka Bloom; Crooked Still (US); Martin Simpson (UK); Tim O’Brien Trio (US); The Cottars (CAN); Tony McManus (UK); Rosie Flores (US); Les Chauffers

á Pieds ( CAN); Kieran Halpin (IRL); Ajak Kwai ( Sudan); The Oily Girls( SCOT); The Cottars (CAN); Christof (HOL); The Alan Kelly Quartet (IRL); Andy Irvine (IRL) & Rens Van der Zalm

(HOL); Pacific Curls; Backsliders; The Little Stevies; Sal Kimber & The Rollin’ Wheel; Frank Yamma; The Spooky Mens’ Chorale; Skorba and Slava & Leonard Grigoryan with the Tawadros brothers (Band Of Brothers).

Also joining us in 2011 are Katie Noonan and the Captains. Look out also for David Bridie, Mama Kin, Graveyard Train, Busby Marou, Bob Corbett & The Roo Grass Band, Tin Pan Orange, Darwin’s favourite Leah Flanagan, Ange Takats from Brisbane, The Brothers Three from Sydney and Halfway To Forth from Tasmania. Enjoy a trip back to the early seventies with blues pioneers Chain, and the Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band with Mic and Jim Conway up front. Gregg Borschmann’s Heartland Conversations and The Poets’ Breakfasts will again start the Saturday and Sunday programmes. A special feature this year will be Fiona Scott-Norman with her comedy hit one-hander ‘The Needle and the Damage Done’, which mercilessly pillories the worst records ever made, and their album covers. www.bmff.org.au

Northern Beaches Music FestivalIn mid 2010 four not for profit music groups of the Northern Beaches got together with the expressed plan to create a music festival to be located in and around Narrabeen Lakes Berry Reserve. These music groups are The Shack, Fairlight Folk, Humph Hall and The Manly Fig. Since that time Festival Director Paul Robertson has developed the concept and negotiated with some forty five musical acts and performance artists to present twp days of fine musical performance. The event is to be staged on Friday the 4th and Saturday the 5th of March, (fifteen hours,) and is located at The Tramshed Arts and Community Cen-tre 1395a Pittwater Road, Narrabeen. Three performance venues will be operating simultaneously presenting three acts each hour.The line up of performers is diverse, interesting and of a high quality. The program so far includes: Wheeze and Suck Band, Pat Drummond, Moth-ers of Intention, Selalu, Green Mohair Suits, Spasm Band, Chloe Hall Band, Lou Bradley, Zoe Eliott, Shells, Gilbert Whyte, Fergusson, Mutual Acquaintances, New York Public Library, Rapt, Luke Escombe, Lyre Bird, Triantan, Geoff Stanley Band, Alan Caswell, Wheelers and Dealers, Dingle Brothers, Michael Azzopardi, Tully, Blue Goose, Kate Delaney, Milton Brown, Amazing Three, The Runaway Cabbages, Daniel Hopkins Band, Orlando Agostino, Sarah and Margie, Loosely Woven, Dave Calaoundra, Ecopella Choir, Solidarity Choir, Behiye Suren, Leon Rabin, Doug Rich-ardson, Ben Osmo, Phil Bracken, Next Big Session, Paul Hemphill, Cap in Hand, Andy George, Ziko Hart. Ticketing is at the door.

festivals and events

►Friday night 7pm-12pm @ $20►Saturday 1pm-6pm@ $20►Saturday night 6pm-12pm @ $20 ►0r All Festival Gold Pass @ $40

The event is a fundraiser in order to stage a larger festival in 2012.northernbeachesmusicfestival.orgContact: Paul Robertson (0418) 641 976, [email protected]


Singing the songs of compassion THE name Paola Mazella on the Australia

Day honours list may not be immediately familiar. But for fans of Kavisha Mazella, it ‘’connects the dots’’ on the singer who launched ground-breaking Italian women’s choirs. Kavisha is the meditation name Ms Mazella adopted when briefly a devotee of guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh in the 1980s.

Ms Mazella is the daughter of an Anglo-Burmese mother and an Italian father. Her family migrated to Australia ‘’as £10 Poms’’ and she grew up steeped in music. ‘’My mother taught me guitar and my grandmother played banjo,’’ she said, ‘’and on my dad’s side, my uncle is a tenor singing classical music and all the Neapolitan repertoire.’’

She performed Sicilian music in I Papaveri with her twin brother Giancarlo and a Sicilian musician in Perth. They played for an Italian women’s friendship club in 1989 and was moved when the women sang back songs to them. ‘’I said, why don’t we start a choir? I wasn’t trained to do it but I just felt if I didn’t do it, nobody would do it.’’

She formed the Joys of the Women, which performed in the play Emma Celebrazione. When she moved to Melbourne in 1993, Playbox asked her to form a choir for the play. ‘’I said OK, for eight weeks, and it is now 15 years.’’ Fifty women, many with ‘’inspiring stories’’ of migration, responded and La Voce Della Luna was born.

After friends asked her to sing at Maribyrnong detention centre and she met some of the refugees, ‘’it hit me that my mother was a refugee from Burma and when she was a child they walked to India’’. She sings regularly in schools in Arnold Zable’s play of refugee stories, Anytime The Wind Can Change. When she travelled into the desert with singer Neil Murray, ‘’I couldn’t believe the Australia I was seeing, the racism’’. Indigenous projects followed. Her proudest work is The Women’s Anthem she was commissioned to write by the Victorian Women’s Trust to celebrate 100 years of women’s suffrage in 2008. She was honoured for her ‘’musical projects promoting awareness of multicultural, refugee and indigenous experiences’’.ANDRA JACKSON

Australian National Folklore Conference 2011The 9th annual conference facilitated by the Australian Folklore Network, the National Library of Australia, the National Folk Festival and the Centre for Advanced Studies in Australia, Asia and the Pacific, Curtin University.National Library of Australia 9-4.30pm Thursday April 21

Singing Teacher/Mentor needed to teach to sing acappella in key Passionate student MONB 0413673317

Grammy Award for PeteFolk legend and Beacon resident

Pete Seeger along with Beacon schoolchildren won a Grammy Award tonight.

The album “Tomorrow’s Children” by the 91-year-old Seeger with The Rivertown Kids and produced by Appleseed Records, won in the Best Musical Album For Children category.

According to the record label, “When Beacon fourth-grade teacher Tery Udell invited Clearwater educator and singer Dan Einbender to teach her students about the Hudson, class sessions became songfests, and where there are songs, there’s Pete. He became a regular visitor to the kids’ classroom in 2007.

“The classroom gatherings and performances inevitably led to a series of recordings by Pete, Dan, musician and CD co-producer (with Dan) David Bernz, the children (known as “The Rivertown Kids”), as well as adult musicians, high schoolers and even 14 grammar school percussion students.” Collaborators of the album also included Dar Williams and Seeger’s wife Toshi.

James Fagan and Nancy - Best DuoOne of the most established and respected duos on the folk scene, Nancy Kerr and James Fagan are winners of the 2011 BBC Radio 2 Folk Award for Best Duo (and previous winners of 2003 Best Duo and 2000 Horizon Award.) As well as being great exponents of their instruments (fiddle, viola and guitar-bouzouki) both are regarded as fine and influential singers. 2010 marked the 15th year of this electrifying duo. In that time they have toured

full-time and headlined festivals throughout the UK, Ireland, Europe, Australia, Japan and Canada. Wherever they play, Kerr and Fagan make new friends and fans, as their love of live performance is tangible and affirming. Consistently great live shows and five highly respected albums, plus their recent collaborations with Robert Harbron and The Melrose Quartet, have cemented their reputation as one of the classiest acts in acoustic music.James and Nancy will be in Australia performing with The Fagans at Humph Hall at 7pm on Wednesday 9th March and at The Cat & Fiddle at 8pm on Saturday 26th March.


Folk in the Forest, WAOver the last five years, there has been a very special folk

festival held at Banksia Springs near Dwelling Up – an hour south-west of Perth and nestled in Jarrah forest. It’s called Folk in the Forest and is run by Little Folk, a charity which donates 100% of every dollar to research into childhood cancer at the Princess Margaret Hospital. There are no paid staff or collectors, and fundraising is focussed on various concerts, dances and other events throughout the year, culminating in the November festival where the weekend tickets, the generous donations from guests, performers and the owners of Banksia Springs have helped make Folk in the Forest a great success.

Three or four things combine to make this Festival extra special in my opinion. Firstly the team of organisers under the benign dictatorship of Ken and Connie Kenny; they are extremely dedicated and hard working and manage to exude serenity while holding together all the complex strands that go to make a festival. Then there is their network within the folk community which seems to be mostly comprised of ex-pats from England, Ireland and Scotland; all of them have a profound respect for traditional music including unaccompanied song. Then, there’s the simplicity of the program which balances dance, spoken word, instrumental music and song, informal sessions; ther are limited acts which means everyone can get to everything. And finally – and maybe most importantly – there’s the venue itself; Banksia Springs. I suppose you would call it a convention centre. There’s a main building comprising a couple of hexagons, one with about six residential units and the other with a big function room, and two cottages. It’s all been handmade by a lovely bloke who has painstakingly crafted each corner (none of which are right angles!); the rough hewn exposed timbers, furniture and decor evoke a colonial era and blend with the landscape in a most harmonious way. Check out the pictures at www.banksiasprings.com. If you’re going to WA for whatever reason, try to make some time for an overnight stop at this lovely spot.

Locals appearing at the 2010 festival included musicians, Dave and Jenny Hoffman and friends, fiddler, Robert Zellinski, unaccompanied singer and reciter, Peter Murphy (ex Lancashire), trio Take Three – Anne Cormack, Fiona Ferguson and Jean Wilson – trad. singer Phil Beck, and singer/songwriters, Graham Wilson (ex UK) and Norma Holmes. Interstate guests were Danny Spooner and Margaret Walters who jointly and severally, presented workshops and several concert spots.

Organisers – Ken and Connie Kenny – would be delighted to hear from others from interstate who are prepared to pay their airfares and donate their talents to future Folk in the Forest festivals. They reckon it’s a hard sell to get people to come over from the east with no promise of monetary gain other than album sales; but my experience was that performers can recoup their fares by guesting at various folk clubs in the west, and accommodation is generally freely available with genial hosts. So give it some thought and contact Connie at [email protected]

And you could also do yourself a favour picking up Ken’s book (unimaginatively titled “Australian Bush Poetry”). Ken’s Irish heritage, his sense of humour and his extensive repertoire of Irish song and verse makes him a natural for spurting bush verse, (Ken doesn’t present himself as a singer but he knows heaps of traditional songs and could call them to mind at a moment’s notice). Ken recounts an infamous introduction made of his brother, Enda, given by the secretary of a club in the north of England: “This next lad is over from Australia, and he’s what they call a ‘singer-songwriter’. He’s not exactly my cup of tea, but, I were overruled by committee”. In 2009 Ken was the MC at a concert at which Melbournians, Danny Spooner and Enda Kenny were performing. He did it in a verse titled: “Over-Ruled by the Committee Again

Tonight we have a treat in store, we couldn’t get him sooner;From Melbourne, the legendary, brilliant Danny Spooner

A man of erudition, experienced like no other;A man of intellect and wit. And then we’ve got my brother.

An expert in folkloric arts – his talents are uncannyA polished man of many parts – I’m speaking now of Danny.

He’d never cause the least alarm – he’d not offend your mother;A gentleman of grace and charm. And then we’ve got my brother.

A scholar with a squeeze-box, he can spin a yarn as well.A master of the ballad form with many tales to tell.

A wizard with a thousand songs – where would we find another?A paragon of excellence. And then we’ll have my brother.With clever people such as you, I scarcely need to mention

That the finest entertainers deserve the best attention.So now, relax, let down your hair and don’t restrain your laughter.

With Danny, you’ll be free from care – then Enda follows afterBy Margaret Walters.

John McKinnon’s Rare Collection of Old Tunes John McKinnon is a traditional dance musician from the Ecklin South district of Victoria, between Colac and Warnambool.When John was about ten or eleven his father bought him a Nightingale German accordion in Melbourne which he quickly learnt to play. At twelve years old, John McKinnon played at his first dance.John began playing around the districts of Ecklin, Dixie, and Ayrford. There was plenty of opportunity with regular dances, welcome home parties, and kitchen teas which were popular parties to honour an engaged couple and their families.John was keen to help a new generation of young musicians to take over the dance bands which were in great demand due to the revival of old time and new vogue dancing. He was also anxious to acknowledge his debt to the musicians and dancers who helped him to become one of Australia’s foremost dance band musicians. John McKinnon’s tapes were enormously successful, selling all over Australia.Australian folk music collectors John Meredith, Alan Musgrove and Edgar Waters have recorded John McKinnon’s traditional accordion music. The tapes are housed in the Oral History Section of the National Library of Australia in Canberra.This is a rare collection of some fine old tunes - worth preserving and playing.

Andrew Pattison wins !The 2010-2011 Woodford Folk Festival was the 25th consecutive festival organised by the Queensland Folk Federation. It was also the site of the FAA’s presentation to Andrew Pattison of the 2009-2010 Community Folk Award.In celebration of the festival’s long-standing achievements, the Trou-badour Wine Bar was re-established at the festival for a couple of special event concerts. On the morning of December 27, FAA Presi-dent John Thompson and Martin Pearson hosted their well-known Variety Breakfast Show for one last time. Taking advantage of the circumstances, John was able to present Andrew with his well-deserved trophy before an appreciative crowd.Well done, Andrew!


folk contactshotmail.comGosford 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, Scouts/Guides Hall, Plympton Road, Carlingford, (opposite Nth Carlingford shops). 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 Dance2nd Sat, 7.30 - 11.30pm, East Gosford Progress Hall, Henry Parry Dr and Wells St, $15/$12. Beate 4323 3356. Robyn 4344 6484.

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 DancePan-Korintian House, Level 1, 11 Anglo Rd, Campsie, 6.30pm - 9.20pm. Adult class and performance group. Vas Aligiannis, 0407 081 875, [email protected]. www.greekdancing.com.auHungarian 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 clare_kirton@

ChOIRSMondayA Choired Taste, Glebe, led by David Westmore, 9716 7016Bright Star Singers Ashfield, led by Mary-Jane Field, 9090 2362Ecopella. Erskineville, led by Miguel Heatwole, 9810 4601 [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, 0415 221 113, [email protected]. 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 Nola Cooper 9587 1165 - [email protected] Next Door, Seaview Street, Dulwich Hill, meets weekly at Sea View Hall, Seaview St, Dulwich Hill. 12.30pm. (Seniors mostly) Contact Allan 9520 6180WednesdayChoralation. 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 7016The Spots. Christina Mimmocchi, Randwick 0410 682 061ThursdayBouddi 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. 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.aulllawarra 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

7246Gaelic Club. Irish music lessons. Beginners and advanced, flute, fiddle, whistle, guitar, concertina, tenor banjo, bodhran.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, Mar-rickville. 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

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. $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]

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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.

12 March Kate Delaney 26 March Carole Garland Carole is presenting a good mixed bag which also contains tracks from recent visitors to our shores, and some still to come.


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ACTMonaro Folk Society Inc, Post Office Box 482 Civic Square, ACT 2608. 0409 817 623 [email protected] http://mfs.org.au/wiki/index.php/Calendar.NORTHERN TERRITORY: Top End Folk Club, PO Box 41551, Casuarina, NT 0811. :Di Howard, 08 8945 0436 (ah), www.members.ozemail.com.au/QUEENSLAND Brisbane Folk Club, Larrie Cook 07 3345 1718.Cairns Folk Club, Ray Elias 07 4039 2493The Folk Rag (Mag), PO Box 517, Everton Park 4053, Tel. 0437 736 799 or 07 3855 1091, [email protected]; www.FolkRag.orgQld Colonial and Heritage Dancers. PO Box 3011, Yeronga 4104. Jan Orloff ph/fax 07 3848 7706, [email protected] Folk Festival. PO Box 1134, Woodford 4514. [email protected]; www.woodfordfolkfestival.com.TASMANIACeltic Southern Cross Folk Music Catalogue. Beth Sowter, [email protected]; www.celt.com.au; PO Box 100, Legana, as 7277.Folk Federation of Tasmania Inc. PO Box 1638 Hobart 7001. Peter Hicks 0409 216 752VICTORIABallarat Folk Club, John Ruyg 03 5332 7872Boite World Music Cafe, Fitzroy, 03 9417 3550 (w), http:// www.boite.asn.auGeelong Folk Club, 2nd. Fri - Coffee House Folk- singing and session - at Cafe Go! Bellerine St. Geelong, from 7.30pm. Last Fri - Upstairs at The Pancake Kitchen, Moorabool St. for songs and session. Contact: Marie Goldsworthy 03 5221 1813 or Jamie McKinnon 03 5261 3443Traditional Social Dance Assoc. of Victoria. Marion Stabb (03) 9439 7100Victorian Folk Music Club Inc. GPO Box 2025S, Melbourne 3001. Brian Venten 03 9884 9476, [email protected] Butler 03 9876 4366, [email protected] AUSTRALIAWA Folk Federation. PO Box 328, Inglewood, WA, 6932. Rob Oats 08 9375 9958.www.wafolk.iinet.net.au Email: [email protected]

main entrance), Newcastle. Rod Noble 4962 3432 email: [email protected] Irish Set Dancers, Tuesdays, 7.30-9.00pm, Scots Kirk, Hamilton, Newcastle. Julia or Arthur, 4955 5701 [email protected], or <http://users.tpg.com.au/juliasm/Irish-Dance/Hunter Bush Poets, 2nd Tuesday 7pm, Tarro Hotel; Ron Brown 4951 6186. Hunter Folk Dancers, Enquiries: Julia or Arthur on 02 4955 5701, Irish Music Session, Bennett Hotel, Hamilton, 3rd Sun, 4pm. Roz and Shane Kerr 4967 3167Newcastle Poetry in the Pub, 3rd Monday, 7.30pm, Northern Star Hotel, Hamilton. Glenn 4967 1460.Newcastle Strath Hunter Dancers, Mondays Adults 7.30pm, Wallsend Uniting Church. Thurs-days Juniors 4.15pm, Youth 5.30pm, All Saints Hall, New Lambton. Elma: 4943 3436.Tradewinds Acoustic/Folk Session, 2nd Sunday (Feb-Nov). 25 Queen St, Cooks Hill. 4-7pm. Carole Garland 4929 3912, [email protected] & Cornish Folk Dancing, Mon, 7.30-9.30pm, All Saints Anglican Hall, Cromwell St, New Lambton. Beginners and visitors always welcome. Enq. Margaret Kenning 4952 1327. Email: [email protected] Beehive, as requested. 8 Lewis St, Is-lington. Neville Cunningham 4969 4246. NOWRA:Balkan and International Folk Dance, Mon, 7.30pm, Cambewarra Hall. Suzi Krawczyk 4446 0569, [email protected] Folk Dance, Progress Hall, Boorawine Tce, Callala Bay. Tuesday (school term), 7.15-9pm. Maureen 446 6550, [email protected] Craic – 9 piece acoustic traditional Band. Tuesday 7.30-10 pm, John’s place. Chris Langdon 4446 1185, [email protected] or Mark Nangle 4454 5028, [email protected] Country Dance Group, Presbyterian Church Hall, Kinghome St (next to Woollies), Wed, 8pm, all welcome. Jill 4421 3570Shoalhaven Bush and Folk Dancing Club, Friday (school term, 8-10pm, Cambewarra Hall. Margaret 4421 0557.Shoalhaven Acoustic Music Assoc, Bomaderry Bowling Club, formal concerts, not always folk, approx quarterly. George Royter 4421 3470OBERON Music Club, fortnightly, Thurs, 8pm, Oberon Leagues Club. Neil Higgins 6337 5707.SOUTHERN HIGHLANDSBowral Folk Club. 3rd Thurs, 8-10.30pm. Fentons Cocktail Bar, upstairs at the Grand Bar, 295 Bong Bong St, Bowral. Traditional music from around the world. 4861 4333, Brian Hayden 4861 6076.Burrawang Folk, 4887 7271Southern Highlands Recreational lnternational Folk Dance Group, Bowral Presb Church Hall, Bendooley St, Thurs (school term), 9-llam. Margaret 4861 2294 Southern Highlands Scottish Country Dance Group, Moss Vale Uniting Church, Cnr Argyll and Spring Streets, Wednesday, 7.30pm. All welcome. Enq. 4861 6471.TAREE, Lazarka International Folk Dance Group, Manning River Steiner School Hall, Tues. 5.30-8.30pm, Sandra 6552 5142.WAGGA WAGGA Downside Bush Dance & Open Mic, Tin Shed Rat-tlers, 1st Sat, Noel Raynes 6928 5541.WAUCHOPE, 1st Saturday Concert with in-vited artists 7.30 pm 3rd Saturday Open perfor-mance session 7.30 at Café Blue Frog, High St. Enq,John 6585 1488 email [email protected] (near Griffith) Bidgee Folk Club3rd Sun. Whitton Hotel, Whiton 1pm - 5pm. 02 6954 4019WOLLONGONGBluegrass Jam Session, 3rd Sat each month. 7.30-11pm. Thirroul Neighbour-hood Centre next to post office.lllawarra Folk Club, 1st Friday and 3rd Saturday, Wollongong City Diggers Club, cnr Burelli & Church

BATEMANS BAY: Scottish Country Dancing, Batemans Bay Caledonian Society -Tuesday 7.30pm at Batemans Bay Bowling Club - visitors welcome. Warren 4457 2065, Max 4472 5184BATHURST: Bathurst Folk Club, occasional concerts, touring and local artists. Different venues. Bruce Cam-eron 02 6331 1129, www.bathurstfolkclub.org.auBELLINGEN: Celtic Australian Session.. Saturday from midday, Church Street tables. John 66555898, Carole 66551225BLUE MOUNTAINS: Blue Mountains Heritage Dancers, Wednesday in term time, 7-9pm. Wentworth Falls SOA. 217 Great Westn Hwy. Caroline 0439 314 948, [email protected] or Patrick 0412 786 988BRAIDWOOD: Braidwood Folk Music Club meets every 3rd Thurs-day now at the Anglican Church Hall, BYO everything. Info Erika 4842 2505; performers Sue 4842 8142Tallaganda Dance Troupe. Folk dance, Mon. 9.30am (Noela 4842 8004. Belly dance. 11.30am. (Erika 4842 2505) 35 Coronation Ave, Braidwood.BROKEN HILL: Occasional acoustic jam nights at Bell’s Milk Bar. Contact Broken Hill Art Exchange, (08) 80088 3171CENTRAL COAST: Troubadour Folk ClubCentral Coast, 2nd Sun, 1.30pm, CWA Hall, Woy Woy. (opposite Fisherman’s Wharf), The Boulevard, Woy Woy. Admission: $7 members/$8 conc. & other folk club mems/$10 non members. Includes afternoon tea. Tel. Frank or Marilyn 4342 9099, Fax 4325 7362. Email: [email protected] www.troubadour.org.au/folk/index.htm..COBARGO: Yuin Folk Club, Occasional Folk Nights. Enq. Coral Vorbach or Graeme Fryer 6493 6758. [email protected], website: www.cobargofolkfestival.com COOMA, International Folk Dancing, Uniting Church Hall, Soho St, Thurs, 6pm. Fran 6453 3282 (h)DUBBO FOLK CLUB, 2nd Sun, 2.30pm, The Monkey Bar. Wingewarra St. All welcome. Di Clifford 6882 0498GOSFORD BUSH POETS - last 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]. Bush traditions sessions at the Old Goulburn Brewery. 1st Fri (except Jan & April), 7.30pm. Bradley Grange, Bungonia Rd, Goulburn. David Johnson 4884 4214 bushtraditions.org/sessions/goulburnsession.htmIrish and Celtic music sessions at the Old Goulburn Brewery. 3rd Fri. Bradley Grange, Bungonia Rd. 4821 6071.GULGONG FOLK CLUB, PO Box 340, Gulgong NSW 2852, Bob Campbell 02 6373 4600, gulgongfolkfestival.comKIAMA “No Such Thing”. Yvonne O’Grady and Alan Musgrove host an Australian tune session suitable for beginners every Monday in Kiama. Yvonne 02 4233 1073, [email protected] BUSH DANCE, Wed nights, Ray Flynn Hall. Glenys Ritchie 6622 4258NEWCASTLE: Bush and Colonial Dancing, 3rd Sund each month 2-4pm. Beginners and visitors always welcome. All Saints Anglican Hall, New Lambton. Enq. Margaret Ken-ning 02 4952 1327 email: [email protected] or Bill Propert 02 4946 5602 email [email protected] and Hunter Valley Folk Club, 1st Sat. 7.30pm (not Jan) Wesley Centre, Beaumont St, Ham-ilton. (Dances held 4 times a year, March, June, Sept, Nov) Lainey 4943 4552, 0421 412 358 [email protected]. www.newcastlehuntervalleyfolkclub.org.auLakeside Folk Cirle, 4th Sunday, every month. Teralba Community Hall, Anzac Pade, Lake Macquarie. 4-7pm. $2.50. Paul 4959 6030. [email protected]’s Chorus Practice, 6pm, Trades Hall Council Meeting Rooms (opp. Panthers’ Club,

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The Ongoing Importance of the Bush Music Club

It was club Treasurer Bob Bolton who originally invited me to come along to the Bush Music Club. I had been in contact with his wife Pat to organise a band to play my wedding and soon after Bob, upon realising I was a folk singer, asked me to come to their clubhouse on Addison Rd and have a look around. At that stage, apart from a few Henry Lawson poems, I had very little idea as to the scope and depth of our bush culture heritage. Growing up with a foreign and imported notion of folk music I was eager to learn about the Australian folk scene, about who the key figures were and who was involved in keeping it alive. And eighteen months ago, when I entered the clubhouse for the first time, I immediately realised I had come to the right place.

The Bush Music Club headquarters is a folk historian’s paradise. Scattered about the inside walls of this modest and weathered demountable is a treasure trove of historical artefacts. From aged folk festival posters faded to the colour of a tea stain and advertising musicians whose names are now associated with legend, to the time-bleached photographs of traditional dance bands playing to pretty long haired ladies in tartan skirts dancing with man sporting healthy beards. Image after image is strewn randomly across the walls, each telling its own story and each capturing an invaluable moment in our folk music history, from an old poster of a Pete Seeger concert at the New Theatre to Christmas cards drawn from the legendary pen of John Dengate.

The Bush Music Club is Australia’s oldest folk club, born from the surge of interest in traditional Australian folk music in 1954. Legend has it that this surge in interest was in direct correlation to The New Theatre’s performances of Dick Diamond’s musical Reedy River. It was the mix of traditional bush songs and poems sung in Reedy River as well as its historical backdrop of squatters, selectors and unionism that planted the desire to further explore Australia’s unique bush heritage in the Sydney audience. The Bush Music Club was then born out of ongoing requests by fans of the musical to either join the band responsible for the music, (soon to be known as the Bushwhackers), or to at least learn these bush songs and the instruments that they were played on. Ironically it seems that this flood of interest directly mirrored Dick Diamond’s foreword in the Reedy River songbook which read “these songs are ours, we should be proud of them”.

Growing up on foreign folk music and the legends associated with this foreign influence I found it very exciting to uncover the roots of the Bush Music Club. Here before me was Australia’s own cultural history, forged out of a bush tradition and with strong connections to unionism. While many modern folk songs have been imported, in Australia, since the 1800’s a rich legacy of home grown folk music has evolved which has dealt with Australia’s own journey and possesses its own legends and pioneers.

The most significant thing I got from the Bush Music Club was a sense of Australia’s true folk heritage. While many modern singer-songwriters are keen to emulate the folk legends sold to them there appeared before me an endless source of inspiration to be found here in Australia and much of this history and legend can be directly traced back to the club.

As I learnt more about Australia’s bush heritage the pictures on the clubhouse wall gathered greater significance as they possessed the faces of the characters who have shaped this history since 1954. More importantly still is the fact that the Bush Music Club is not just an organisation that looks after these artefacts but that its many talented members are still meeting once a week to perform these old songs and to ensure that Australia’s unique folk legacy carries on.By Cj Shaw

Leonard Cohen: Hallelujah: A New BiographyTim Footman[Chrome Dreams (2010). ISBN-978 1 84240 472 0 (Paperback, 272 pp.)]

Singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen’s five-decade career has long been a source of fascination for music journalists. Footman’s erudite biography, Hallelujah, traces Cohen from his early days in Montreal, through his initial career as a wunderkind poet and novelist who didn’t take up music as a vocation until his early 30s. Footman por-trays Cohen as a study in contradictions—the gentleman who used hard drugs for years, the literate balladeer who gained mass popular-ity with rock audiences and recorded his most definitive work with Nashville session musicians. Footman pays equal attention to Cohen the man, whose most enduring and tempestuous relationships were described in his songs, and Cohen the musician, whose checkered career included a number of recording experiments, including an ill-fated collaboration with legendary producer Phil Spector for Death of a Ladies’ Man, and whose already ungainly voice deepened to a velvety growl as he moved past his middle years.

Footman also deals with Cohen’s long involvement with Zen Buddhist teacher Roshi, which included five years largely spent in the monk’s Southern California retreat. The book concludes with a description of Cohen’s triumphant return to performing in his mid-seventies, which found him playing nearly three-hour sets for months on end to some of the biggest and most adulatory crowds in his career. Footman does not appear to have interviewed Cohen directly, but the book is built on extensive research, and Footman does not lionize or fawn over his subject. Hallelujah is a perfectly satisfactory and comprehensive portrait of one of popular music’s most enigmatic and enduring figures.Michael Parrish (San Jose, CA)Reprinted from Driftwood website.

Tim O’Brien (USA)Born in March, 1954, in Wheeling, West Virginia, Tim O’Brien

grew up listening to big band and jazz music. His earliest musical memories included listening to Benny Goodman and Lawrence Welk.

When still in his teens, he started listening to a local country music show that was recorded live at a local theater. He began at-tending tapings of the show, and there he saw performers liks Merle Haggard and Roger Miller. Soon, O’Brien began learning Scruggs’ Style banjo from one of his girlfriend’s psychiatrist father’s patients. The patient was Roger Bland, a former member of Lester Flatt’s band.

He then restrung his father’s old mandolin and began teaching himself how to play that instrument.

He formed the groundbreaking bluegrass group Hot Rize. While performing with Hot Rize, O’Brien met country singer Kathy Mat-tea, who later had hits with her versions of his songs.

Soon after, O’Brien left Hot Rize to pursue a career as a solo singer/songwriter. After a failed attempt at recording an album for RCA, O’Brien eventually signed a deal with Sugar Hill Records in Nashville. His debut solo album, Odd Man was released in 1991.

Hot Rize had a brief reunion in 1996, and have re-merged a few times since then. O’Brien has released 13 albums on Sugar Hill Records, and has received Grammy Awards and IBMA Awards for his incredible work. Appearing (NOTES Newtown Wed. 9th).


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Kate Rowe’s album, entitled Nature’s Little Game, is refreshingly whimsical, with delightful turns of phrase and well-crafted musical decorations to embellish the moods, whether they be light-hearted or of a more thoughtful bent.

The title says it all, for the songs, all them her own, are about aspects of life and love, ranging from love at first sight (for coffee!) and love that didn’t get off the ground (well, they never met) to what’s left when the camping tent is folded up.

She has a unique flair for language, whether she is being ironic and comical or whether she is delving into more serious aspects of the human condition, such as the importance of embracing joy (The First Run Through) or letting a friend into your life (The Dusty Room).

The musical arrangements include a bit of 30’s jazz and the occasional touch of klezma as well as modern folk guitar and other instruments such as the ukelele. Combined with her rich voice, the result is very enjoyable listening.

The album begins with the love song to coffee and ends with a hilarious flight of fancy about having a visitation from space rabbits while eating cereal one morning. The third song, about Frank the unmet lover, had me laughing out loud in a couple of spots.

The more weighty songs are generally in the middle tracks, and they kind of creep up on the listener. The second song, following from the first comical one, is a surprise as it starts with a light-hearted T-shirt reference before it moves on to a universal theme; this overlap of modern and more general poetic language can be a bit disconcerting.

Among the more serious songs, The Tent is particularly thought-provoking, with a haunting whistle that comes in to underpin the mood. If Only You Knew is memorable for the striking singing and the chordal structure.

It will be interesting to see if in her future writing Kate Rowe concentrates on developing the whimsey in her topics or on more thoughtful subjects, and how she disciplines and hones her obvious gift for poetry.

Whatever direction she takes in her music, she will be followed with great interest by folk audiences. www.katerowe.comby Mary-Jane Field

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