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MetropolitanTuesday 2ndSydney Playford Dance Group, with various callers, some interesting dances (old and new), and live music. Bush Music Club, Hut 44, Addison Road Centre, 142 Addison Rd, Marrick-ville. 7.30-9.30pm. $5, $3 students. Julie 9524 0247

Friday 5thFolk Federation of NSW. End of Year Folk Bash. Concert; Mummers Play; Carol singing; and an informal session (bring voice + any other instrument). Light refreshments. Gaelic Club, upstairs, 64 Devonshire St, Surry Hills. 8pm. $10, Folk Fed members $5. All welcome! Margaret Walters [email protected] or 9698 2206. For final details, check jam.org.au and facebook.com/NSW.Folk.FederationTRANSCENDING FEAR. Free screening of a film telling the story of the Chinese Human Rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng. 7pm. 85 Allambie Rd, Allambie Hts. 9939 8802 [email protected] 6th

The Shack. ChRIS O, singer, song-writer, instrumentalist from Katoomba. She arrives carrying gear like a pack pony - dobro, banjo, lapslide, ukes, guitars, etc. Channeling the music of the great old times - like Memphis Minnie, Skip James, Missippi Fred McDowell - she plays a load of jelly-roll and jinx - Blues as it used to be. Some interna-tional grassroots musical collaborations and compositions are on soundcloud.com/chris-okunbor. + RENNy FIElD (rennyfield.com). With guitar and

suitcase, he has spent much of the past few years drawing inspiration from people and places - from regional NSW to Berlin, London and Dublin – for his latest album Fieldnotes. + ThE DIS-TANT SONS (facebook.com/TheDis-tantSons). A bluegrass foundation, with the ghost of Bill Monroe a hoverin' and the harmonies of Old Crow Medicine Show. Tramshed Community Arts Centre, 1395a Pittwater Rd, Narrabeen (betw. car park & Ambulance Station). 7.30-11pm. $25, members $20. 0413 635 856, shackfolk.com

'Dance up the Sun' lOOSEly WOvEN, 26 acoustic instrumentalists & singers present a free, light-hearted, folky, Christmassy sort of concert/cabaret. 7pm. Concord Presbyterian Church, Cnr Correys & Concord Rd. Enq. 9939 8802Gaelic Club. Christmas Ceili! Live Music with ThE JImmy mullARkEy CEIlI BAND. Dancing, Music, Games, Prizes, Singers. Lev 1, 64 Devonshire St, Surry Hills. 7:30pm till late! 0434 115 191Sunday 7th'Dance up the Sun' lOOSEly WOvEN, 26 acoustic instrumentalists & sing-ers present a free, light-hearted, folky, Christmassy sort of concert/cabaret. 4pm. Avalon Baptist Peace Church, 2 George St. For Amnesty Int. 9939 8802Wednesday 10thWongawilli Community Hall. Taran-tella Party with Melbourne's SANTA TARANTA (santataranta.com). A mix of original and traditional music from southern Italy. Learn some steps or just jump around, with these bellissimi ragazzi! Salvatore Rossano and Davide Ierardi, immigrants from southern Italy, grew up playing traditional music of Puglia and Basilicata respectively. Emil-iano Beltzer is a fine guitarist from Argentina, and Nara Demasson (mando-lin, guitar), one of the best musicians from Melbourne. Musical styles include Pizzica, Tammurriata, Stornelli; Polkas from the barbershop,

the occasional serenade d’amore. Lot 422 Wongawilli Road. 8-9.45pm. $10, $5: incl. Italian flavoured supper. Tickets at door from 7.50pm. Wongawilli Colonial Dance Club (wongawillicolonialdance.org.au), [email protected]

Thursday 11thJames Craig Shanty Session. 'Christ-mas at Sea'. There’s a few songs on the subject - but try anything about food and drink! All welcome. 8pm (ship opens 7.30). Supper around 9, fol-lowed by shanty circle where all can contribute. We take a very liberal view of what constitutes a sea song! Ship stays at wharf. NO ALCO-HOL to be consumed on board. $7 ($5 towards maintenance of ship, $2 supper. Sydney Heritage Fleet members, only $2. Membership: shf.org.au/mem-bership-volunteering/memberships.) Walking from city: over Pyrmont Bridge, right into Murray St, pass big white National Maritime Museum & straight ahead you see James Craig. Closest public transport: Pyrmont Bay Light Rail station. Parking may be available: turn into wide driveway in 2 Murray St, outside big white building; turn immed. left - press Inter-com button at right of gate, give name & say you're there for Shanty Session on James Craig. Margaret 9698 2206, Mike 0419 992 119 Marga-ret 9698 2206, Mike 0419 992 119

Union Hotel. uRBAN GuERIllAS - CAROlS By BlOWTORCh. With the Bottlers, The Smart Folk and Sim Shame. A night that puts the passion back in Christmas complete with a fairytale ending. 576 King St, Newtown. 7pm. 9557 2989. facebook.com/Ur-banGuerillas2012Friday 12thDuke's Place. Australian Songs in Con-cert and Session. Featured performer PETER CAhIll, concert party's most prolific songwriter. Tritton Hall (Hut 44), Addison Road Community Centre, 142 Addison Rd, Marrickville. Doors open 7pm. Concert 8-10.30pm, followed by singing session. (Gates close midnight.) $10. Bring a plate; and songs. Sandra 9358 4886, [email protected]

Saturday 13thCentral Coast Contra Dance, with PASTRAmI ON RyEBuCk, caller

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Julie Bishop. Dances taught and called. There was no RFDS Contra this year, so make the most of this one! East Gosford Progress Hall, cnr Henry Parry Drive & Wells St. 7.30pm. $18, $12. Supper provided. Robyn 4344 6484. ccbdma.org/schedule.htm

Sunday 14th'Dance up the Sun' LooseLy Woven, 26 acoustic instrumentalists & sing-ers present a free, light-hearted, folky, Christmassy sort of concert/cabaret. 1pm + 5pm. Humph Hall, 85 Allambie Rd, Allambie Heights. 9939 8802

Saturday 20thBush Music Club Christmas Dance, with Southern Cross. All dances taught. Ermington Community Centre, 10 River Rd. 7-11pm. $19, $17, BMC $14. Don or Wendy 9642 7950, 0412 145 262Wednesday 31stneW year's eve in HumpH HaLL. Enjoy a relaxed evening including a video retrospective of the year's HH events. Bring food, songs, poems, tunes to share. From 7pm. 85 Allambie Rd, Allambie Hts. Wayne 9939 8802 [email protected] Regional and ACT Saturday 6thNewcastle Hunter Valley Folk Club. steve tyson Band. A regular around Brisbane music for many years, as guitarist, mandolin player, song-writer with local heroes Rough Red. His first solo album - stories of post-9/11 trauma, family skeletons, caustic politi-cal satire, matters of the heart. + tHe neWcastLe peopLe’s cHorus. Songs with meaning: songs worth sing-ing! newcastlehuntervalleyfolkclub.org.au, Wesley Centre, 150 Beaumont St, Hamilton. 7.30pm. $15, $12, $10. Bring a plate, if you can.

Nowra Bush Dance. 8-10pm. Acoustic musos of all standards welcome. Tune practice session 6.30pm. Dancers $5, musos $0. You can bring a plate of/sup-per to share if you like. Dancers contact Andrew or Alison 4447 5663. Musos, Stuart 0412 288 923. kangaroovalley-folkfestival.com.au/page16.htm

January 2015Sunday 4th

Humph Hall aFenGinn (denmark), Award-winning 4 piece Danish band. "Music with the cinematic feel of classical music, the Scandinavian feel of melancholy and the speed of Balkan." 3pm. Humph Hall, 85 Allambie Rd, Allambie Heights. 9939 8802

Sunday 18thHumph Hall Jaron Freeman-Fox and tHe opposite oF every-tHinG (canada) "The hyper-kinetic Jaron Freeman-Fox is the Jimi Hendrix of the violin. With the chops of a classi-cal virtuoso and the soul of a wild-eyed punk, he plays world music in the truest sense of the word, leaping from Gypsy to Klezmer to Celtic to Country without skipping a beat." 3pm. Humph Hall, 85 Allambie Rd, Allambie Hts. 9939 8802

Friday 23rd

Humph Hall Bernard carney (Wa) The ever popular singer/songwriter from Perth returns to Humph Hall. 7pm. Humph Hall, 85 Allambie Rd, Allambie Hts. 9939 8802

Saturday 31stHumph Hall GeorGe mann (us) + JoHn BroomHaLL George Mann joins forces with Australia's own John Broomhall for another evening with a focus this year on union and miner's songs. 7pm. Humph Hall, 85 Allambie Rd, Allambie Hts. 9939 8802

The hugely popular Danish group Afenginn are headlining at Woodford & Illawarra Folk Festivals. You can also catch them here in Sydney at Humph Hall on Sunday 4th January.


27th - December, 2014Gulgong Folk Festivalwww.gulgongfolkfestival.com.au

27th - December, 2014 - 1st January 2015Woodford Folk [email protected]

9th - 11th January, 20151st HONK! OZ. Free 3-day street music festival in Wollongong. www.honkfest.org.au

15th - 18th January, 201530th Illawarra Folk [email protected]

20th-22nd February 2015

Bonnie Doon Music Festival (Vic.). Applica-tions open until end of

December. bonniedoonmusicandbuskerfes-tival.com

27th February - 1st March, 2015

Cobargo Folk Festival 2015www.cobargofolkfestival.com

13th - 15th March, 201520th Blue Mountains Music [email protected]

2nd - 6th April, 2015National Folk [email protected]

festivals and events

gulgong Folk FestivalLocated in the charming historical gold rush town of Gulgong in the Central West of NSW (about 4 hours from Sydney) the Gulgong Folk Festival, for 28 years, has long had a reputation as one of the best small music festivals in the country and is well worth the post-Christmas, pre-New Year's drive.

“... for its size this festival regularly punches above its weight.” Timber and Steel, Nov 2013.

“ One of the best music festivals in Australia.” Trad and Now, March 2013.

Featuring the cream of Australia's up and coming Folk, Country and Blues artists, the best thing is - this year again the festival is totally FREE.

It is a magnet for the serious music aficionado and has a reputation par excellence in music circles for its imaginative and innovative artist repertoire. Wander the historical township, walk into the many venues and soak up the atmosphere. Start-ing with an opening party on the Friday night, 26 December, the festival runs on Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 December and is one for the whole family.

The full line up will be on the website, and here are some of the highlights:

Bearded Gypsies, Daniel Champagne, Crooked Fiddle Band, Sweet Jelly Rolls, Freddie White (Ireland), Lexi Marie (Canada), Genevieve Chadwick, Honey (for-merly Fig Jam), 19-Twenty, Squeeze Box Trio, The Fruit Trees, Southerly Change, String Theory, Allan Caswell, Out of Albindon, Terry Serio, The Plough, Slightly Off, and much more.

Markets, street concerts, busking, street entertainment, food and of course the leg-endary camping and dorm facilities of Red Hill Environmental Centre and School located right next to the original gold diggings.

For more information, including program, check out the official web site gulgong-folkfestival.com.au or visit the facebook page facebook.com/gulgongfolkfestival.

Any further info: Richard Lawson 0447 036 783, [email protected]

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Richard Person at Majors

Danny Priestley at Majors


The Illawarra Folk Festival will be celebrating its 30th Pearl Anniversary in 2015.

Special events include the inaugural fringe street band festival HONK! Oz (free three-day street music festival in Wollongong, www.honkfest.org.au), an extended program of youth opportunities including the launch of the Folkaphonic Youth Orchestra, a new venue featuring songwriters circles, the “It’s a Pearler” song and tune

writing competition (see below), and a special 30th anniver-sary exhibition.

The highlight of the four-day festival will be the Friday night costumed Pearl Ball, where the weekend will kick off in style with a fantastically flamboyant concert, and run into the wee hours with gypsy dance bands and a sea shanty session guar-anteed to tickle the sternest of swashbucklers!

The Thursday of the festival is also expanding to include more concerts and activities and as always, proceeds will go directly to charity organisations, this year’s recipients being Cystic Fibrosis NSW and The

Denny Foundation.A major focus this year is to provide more opportunities to young people interested in playing folk mu-sic. As well as the highly successful folk music school, youth concerts and the Youth Traditions Awards, young musicians aged 15 to 25 are also being invited to take part in the new national youth folk orchestra, Folkaphonic. This exciting new concept developed by golden fiddle winner Emma Nixon and artistic director David De Santi will continue beyond the fes-tival to offer performance opportunities around the country, workshops, camps and special projects.

As well as booking many new national and international art-ists, the committee have made sure to invite back some of the many beloved musicians who have supported the Illawarra Folk Festival over the years, and made it the flourishing com-munity event it is today.

Then there is the 30th Pearl Anniversary Song and Tune Writ-ing Competition.Calling all songwriters and tune writers! The Illawarra Folk Festival invites all songwriters and musicians residing in Australia to enter our

30th Pearl Anniversary song contest - It's A Pearler! Gener-ously sponsored by our friends at APRA AMCOS! Prizes to be announced.

Australian composers of all ages will be able to submit new compositions with a pearl reference, connection, theme or title. How you include the pearl theme is entirely up to you, as long as it's obvious enough for

the judges to recognise it! Depending on the category, sub-missions will be judged on the following criteria:

Creativity, Originality, Lyrics (excludes songs that do not have lyrics), Melody, Arrangement, Overall likeability

Categories

1. Open Song Section, 2. Open Tune Section 3. Youth (U25) Song Section, 4. Youth (U25) Tune Section

To enter It's A Pearler! you'll need to:

- Write a song or tune with a pearl connection, theme, refer-ence or title - Fill out the entry form, illawarrafolkfestival.com.au/song-tune-competition-form

- Upload your song to an online audio platform such as Soundcloud or Reverbnation (no Facebook links will be ac-cepted)

Entries are now open and close 15th December 2014.

If you are interested in helping out at the festival contact Neil

Rowsell, [email protected]

Earlybird tickets end on 17th December: www.illawarrafolk-festival.com.au

or 1300 887 034.

Some of the 150 plus acts:

International - Afenginn (Denmark), Anna Ludlow Band (Canada), Bettina Schelker (Switz) Black Market Tune (Scot/Austria), David Francey (Canada), Debasis Chakroborty & Kriti Ensemble (India) The East Pointers (Canada), George Mann (USA), Kristina Olsen (USA), Melisande – Electrotrad (Canada), Sumsum (Israel), Tim Edey Trio (UK).

National - Eric Bogle, Ted Egan, Folkaphonic Youth Orchestra (Premiere), Allez-Gator, Bernard Carney, The Borderers, The Bottlers, Chloe & Jason Roweth, Claude Hay, Cloudstreet, Dave De Hugard, David Beniuk, Enda Kenny Band, Fred Smith, Gina Williams & Guy Ghouse, The Go Set, John Broomhall, Jordan C. Thomas, Melbourne Scot-tish Fiddle Club, Michael Fix, The Morrisons, Neil Adam & Judy Turner, Nick Rheinberger, Sparrow-Folk, The Mae Trio, Pat Drummond, Terry Serio’s Half Truths, Vardos, and many more.

Afenginn (Denmark)


Acclaimed singer songwriters Archie Roach and Shellie Mor-ris will headline the 20th Cobargo Folk Festival in February.

Organisers of the festival are delighted that a collabora-tion with the Bermagui Four Winds Festival helped secure $30,000.00 in funding from the NSW Government to assist in bringing these artists to the community festival from February 27th to March 1st 2015 in Cobargo.

Festival Director Dave Crowden said he was thrilled to work with Four Winds on the project and grateful for the funding support. "It's fantastic that the NSW Government recognises the importance of supporting community festivals and music development in regional areas,” he said. "This support has enabled us to bring artists of the calibre of Archie and Shellie to our festival to inspire audiences, musicians and performers from across the Bega Valley and beyond."

“It’s going to be another great festival, with so many extras happening this year. Shellie Morris will be leading indigenous youth song-writing workshops in the six months leading up to the event, and will join Archie on stage at a special performance on the Monday following the festival in Wallaga Lake.”

Early-bird tickets are on sale now from the website www.cobargofolkfestival.com

Australian entertainer Ami Williamson is also on the bill for Cobargo 2015. Since 2000, has toured Australia and abroad with her celebrated show, performing at major venues and festivals including Woodford Folk, Port Fairy, National Folk Festival and Sydney’s State Theatre.

Indigenous Darwin-based singer/songwriter Shellie Morris is one of Australia's most treasured artists, creating songs of power and inspiration. She has travelled the world both as a solo artist and as part of collaborations like The Black Arm Band. Her feet are firmly planted in the soil of the Northern Territory where she spends a lot of her time when not record-ing or working on programs around the world. She spends much time travelling around the bush, doing songwriting workshops with communities and travelling around the world

Cobargo Folk Festival announces headline acts for 2015

vALe: edward gough Whitlam July 11, 1916 October 21, 2014,

The Whitlam Government provided unprecedented support to Australia’s arts sector, helping a generation of creative Australians to give voice to a new independent, confident and distinctively Australian cultural identity. In his 1972 election campaign speech, Whitlam stated that his government’s arts policy would be guided by four cardinal objectives: ‘to promote a standard of excellence in the arts, to widen access to, and the understanding and applica-tion of, the arts in the community generally, to help establish and express an Australian identity through the arts and to promote an awareness of Australian culture abroad’.

Australia’s cultural heritage was protected with landmark legisla-tion, and the creation of the Australian Heritage Commission and the Register of the National Estate. These measures helped to identify, protect and conserve sites significant to Australia’s social history for the benefit of future generations.

singing and writing. Shellie shares the message of her music with young Indigenous people, always encouraging, inspir-ing and touching the hearts of those who cross her path. From the Arafura Sea and the Yolngu regions of Arnhem Land to the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara deserts of greater Central Australia, across the Tanami to Kintore and Lajamanu and into the Kimberley, and from the Torres Straits to Redfern, Shellie shares her music, her stories and her pas-sions.

Early bird tickets on sale NOW!!!

www.cobargofolkfestival.com


folk news

end of Year Folk BashFolk Federation of NSW is combining with the monthly Gaelic Café singing session to produce an End of Year Folk Bash - Friday 5th December 2014 from 8pm. The venue is upstairs at the Gaelic Club, 64 Devonshire St, Surry Hills (a stone’s throw from the Devonshire St exit from Central Station).

All welcome. Please notify your friends on facebook/wherever and make it a party. The Folk Federation will be providing some Xmas goodies to eat, and tea and coffee. Reasonably priced drinks at the bar. Admission: $10, Folk Fed members $5.

Entertainment will be:

Brian Jonathon (songwriter with a darkly humorous take on modern life)

Darlo by Night (acapella choir from Darlington)

Mummers Play (Medieval-cum-C21 seasonal mayhem from Black Joak Morris)

Folklore (lively 6 piece Celtic band - Old world sounds for a new sound world)

Carol Singing and an Informal Session (bring voice + any other instrument)

Brian Jonathon is an emerging new singer-songwriter on the Sydney folk scene. His all-original songs sing for social justice, of life and times (past and present) and of the some-times darkly humorous absurdities of modern life. Inspired by a lifelong immersion in contemporary and traditional folk music, Brian has sung in folk clubs in his native Ire-land, in England and more recently in Sydney where he now lives. Brian is a regular at the monthly Gaelic Café singing sessions, producing a new song every month relevant to the night’s theme.

Black Joak Morris: Mummers Play – The Joakers in this Morris Dancing Troupe have written a Mummers Play which promises to be full of hilarity and topical referenc-es. Morris dancing and Mummers plays both have roots in ancient traditional customs. Both have been part of English life for hundreds of years and are associated with fertil-ity rites and ancient Anglo-Saxon village

customs. Mummers plays are comic in style and generally involve a battle between two or more characters, represent-ing good against evil. Usually they feature a doctor who has a magic potion which is able to resuscitate a slain character. blackjoak.morris.org.au

Folklore - this group brings together the fine talents of Rosie Mc-Donald, Fiona McVic-ar, Cliona Molins, Ken O'Neill and Anthony Woolcott, all well-regarded musicians on the folk festival scene as traditional-style ses-sion players, soloists and members of bands, Mothers of Intention, RAPT, Triantan and Jiggery. For these time travellers in sound, past is present is future, the human state really not changing over the millennia despite the march of time. Together, they unlock the secrets shrouded in the words, music, symbols and stories of the past - from murder ballads and songs of revenge to rousing sea shanties; from songs of the joy of lovers reunited to choruses delighting in the seasons; from lively Bard songs to beautiful and tender love songs; from toe tapping, skirt-swirling fiddle tunes to evocative mist-swirling airs on the harp. With 2 guitars, 2 Irish bouzoukis, fiddle, ParaCeltic harp, bodhran and 4-part vocal harmony, Folklore explore the depths and breadth of the folkloric canon to bring you the music that inspires and nurtures them. facebook.com/folkloresydney

Join us in Wagga Wagga fromJanuary 10-17, 2015 for a great

week of musicCatering to fiddle players of all ages,

intermediate level and aboveGroup accommodation packages available

Catherine Fraser is a leading influence in Scottishfiddling in Australia. After receiving a Bachelorof Music Teaching from Flinders Street School ofMusic, South Australia, she chose to focus onthe music of her heritage, and has becomehighly regarded internationally as both aperformer and teacher. The Scottish Fiddlesessions will introduce students to a range oftune styles including strathspey, reel, and jig.Students will learn repertoire by ear and explorethe harmonic structures and rhythmicundercurrents that drive the tunes.

Riverina Summer School for Strings

Scottish Fiddle classeswith Catherine Fraser

for more information: www.summerstrings.com.au

or phone Jeff on 0428 695 577


dance newsSydney Playford Dance groupThe final dance for the year will be on Tuesday 2nd Decem-ber, with several callers and some interesting dances, at the usual venue, the Bush Music Club, Hut 44, Addison Road Centre, 142 Addison Rd, Marrickville, 7.30pm.

The past year has seen a large number of dances done (listed at facebook.com/sydneyplayford), taught by various callers: Julie Bishop, Keith Wood, Heather Clemesha and Pat George. Everyone has appreciated the privilege of dancing to live music,

organised by fiddler Ralph Pride, who also leads the half-dozen or so musicians. Dancer numbers have ranged from 10 to 24.Please note, there will be NO Playford dance in January. Playford dancing will resume on Tuesday 3rd February 2015.

Portarlington 2014This year the Traditional Social Dance Association of Victoria (TSDAV) was celebrating their 20th year of the Spring Dance Weekend at Portarlington. And once again, it was a great suc-cess.

There was the usual mix of dance styles and local and interstate callers.Peter Ellis (Bendigo) led simple but fun (and lively!) dances from the 'Gay Nineties to the Roaring Twenties'. Norm Ellis taught dances, some quite inventive, from the last 20 years of TSDAV's annual Dance Composers Competitions.

Matthew Robertson was the teacher for a Scottish dance workshop. A fiddler, he also ran a Scottish music workshop for musicians; and, with Duncan Smith (piano), Julia Arnold (double bass), and guest David South on accordion, provided great music for different styles of music at the Saturday night dance. Everyone was encouraged to dress in 'Roaring

Twenties' style for that dance – and there were some spectacu-lar outfits, especially among the ladies!

The hambo, a tricky Swedish couples dance, needed a workshop all to itself. It was taught and demonstrated very effectively by Canberra's

Roger Gifford and Christine Ridgway, so that dancers got the hang of the steps (women's pattern of steps is crucially differ-ent from men's).

Putting them together with a partner will take more work! Everyone tried hard, and requested it again for the Farewell Dance on Sunday afternoon.

Roger also had a workshop of Nordic dances.

Julie Bishop (Sydney) taught American contras – but the hit of the workshop was an Australian contra by Peter Foster from Canberra, who writes some incredible dances.

It is a lovely weekend of dancing, in the beautiful bayside town on the Bellarine peninsula east of Geelong, with a lovely crowd of dancers – who come from South Australia, NSW, and Queensland, to dance with their Victorian friends.

Shanty SessionWe're looking forward to a jolly night of sea songs that mention Christmas at our 11th December Shanty night - but nautical songs that reference food and drink will be just fine!

Regulars know that there is an op-portunity for everyone to lead songs and all are encouraged to join in the choruses. We take a very liberal view of what constitutes a sea song so don’t hold back! And bring a friend or four! It's one of the most magic ways to spend an evening in Sydney - on board a historic sailing ship alongside at Darling Harbour with Sydney lights sparkling all around. The evenings just now are perfectly balmy, so it looks like we'll have our first session on the deck.

The ship opens at 7.30pm and we start at 8. We break for sup-per around 9, followed by a shanty circle where everyone can contribute. The ship stays tied to the wharf, so you can arrive and leave at any time.

Visitors are asked to donate $7 per session, of which $5 goes totally towards the maintenance of this exceptional ship and

$2 towards supper. (Members of Sydney Heritage Fleet, only $2 for supper. To become a SHF member go to shf.org.au/membership-volunteering/memberships/ - the cost is $60 per year, $35 concession.)

Directions: If walking from the city, walk over Pyrmont Bridge, turn right into Murray St, walk past the big white National Maritime Museum and straight ahead you should see the James Craig.

The closest public transport is Pyrmont Bay station for the Light Rail.

Parking may be available on Wharf 7 opposite the James Craig - Do NOT park in front of any of the glass doors. Off Murray St, Pyrmont, turn into the driveway to the left of the Wharf 7 building then turn right before the Wharf 7 Build-ing - press the button on the Intercom on the building side of the gate, give your name and tell them you are there for the Shanty Session on the James Craig.

Whether you enjoy sitting quietly and listening; or joining in loudly for the chorus; or leading a song, you’ll be welcome at this singing session on board a wonderfully restored 140 year-old tallship.

Shanty Session Co-ordinators: Mike Richter 0419 992 119, Margaret Walters 0427 958 788 or 9698 2206.



More than a life:John Meredith. the Fight for Australian tradition - by Keith MckenrySome thoughts from R.Dale Dengate.

Keith MeKenry is to be congratulated on compiling his biog-raphy on John Meredith.

It was a challenging task as John Meredith, aka Merro, had an exceptional life full of travels around Australia in search of traditional material. And it was a ‘fight for Australian Tradi-ton.’ The book gives details of meeting people and getting to know them before he collected their recollections of music, song and verse from the Australian experience. His files recorded the precise place and date when the song was sung, but McKenry often has the reader flipping back pages to lo-cate the possible year: was it ’84 or ’87? Merro was extremely important in the field of Australian Folklore and the founding of Bush Music Club and much more.

Although Merro kept copious notes and filed them me-thodically before he lodged them in the ANL – where I have enjoyed reading them to refresh my memory of all the stories Merro shared with John D. and myself from 1960s onwards. We spent many a weekend at ‘Walden’ and later at ‘Rose Cot-tage’ and Merro joined us for many of his birthdays, until he decided it was becoming like the ‘Summer of the Seventeenth doll’. Merro was ambivalent about birthdays and the age-ing process although he loved special dinners with fine food, wine and song, so he did resume them in his 80s, when the Woodlands would drive him to Glebe for the night. They were always memorable evenings. The book recalls many people’s recollections of sharing pleasurable meals with Merro in the bush and homes all over Australia where the fight for Austral-ian Traditions continued.

The first section about Merro’s parents and youth has relied on the files Merro had deposited in the library; yet initially, I didn’t recognise the character. Although the book evokes so many memories, the John Meredith that McKenry has written about is not the person that John and I had known, especially during the 1960s. McKenry paints a sad, lonely image of Merro, but that is not my recollection; he was certainly a pri-vate and thoughtful man, but he had many friends with whom he shared his philosophies and passions.

Merro began the way he continued through his life. He could be charming or pugnacious yet‘ seemed to have an uncanny ability to establish rapport and be welcomed into the home’. On his return visit, the folk had often thought of further recol-lections.

During 1964, while Merro resided at the Argyle Steps flat, still part of the Rock’s tenements with the eccentric landlady, we enjoyed the tales when we joined him at his retreat in the Bargo brush, at Walden over the weekends. As all the visitors to Walden recalled, Merro was an exceptional host.

There were many shared activities during the day such as sketching, bush walking or reading from his well selected book shelves and playing music, but Merro always did the cooking and brewing. Merro, himself read widely and often had special books that arrived from overseas in discreet wrappings. At night we all shared the delicious meals Merro prepared with wines and long hours of music, song and discussions. We heard of his frustrations with the problems in getting work printed and the obstacles which arose from the various people with whom he had to deal.

In Chapter 13, covering the years 1960-64, the search for a publisher for Folk Songs of Australia and the 1963 visit from Pete Seegar captured some of the complex responses of that period. Seegar was less than welcome in Merro’s opin-ion, because of the domination of the folklore from USA, but Alan Scott did invite him to the BMC in Sept’63. Alan never let John D forget that instead of singing one of his contempo-rary Australian compositions he sang ‘ Yo, ho-ho and a bottle of rum.’!

Mc Kenry deals with the complexities of the changing folk scene and characters involved in it, as well as the complex alliances and feuds.

This was an intense time in the Australian social and politi-cal scene as well as in the cultural scene. There would be different view points about this period and Keith has referred to some of the controversies. Controversy is always good for spawning interest.

The later part tells of Merro’s amazing journeys with friends for collecting versions of folk material and making record-ings for the ANL Oral history collection. Merro made a prac-tice of encouraging others to collect and to write. This is an important section as it indicates the range of material and the people from whom it was collected and why the collections of John Meredith as so valuable to Australia.

In the fight for Australian tradition there are so many more stories and folk who made them, but Keith McKenry has managed to cover a wide range of them and started a sound dialogue, so here’s to extending the knowledge of Australian Tradition and folklore.


cd review

Steadfast - Margaret Walters (margaretwalters.com)

Margaret Walters has been an important stalwart of the folk scene for as long as I can remember. Her contribution to folk music in Australia has been immeasurable, and this should be celebrated and acknowledged at every turn. Her latest CD, Steadfast, is appropriately named, for she has been true to her calling ever since she began singing more than 30 years ago..

Her efforts have been on two main levels: Her warm and unique voice, with its special emphasis on a cappella singing and her own style with its decorations and strong emotional expression, has been heard just about anywhere there is folk music happening in these parts. She has also lent her voice to others, such as her important collaborations with song-writer John Warner and The Roaring Forties.

In addition, she has been a big promoter of folk music in gen-eral. This has been through concerts, festivals and events in which she has participated or has herself instigated, through information-sharing, and through the many informal singing sessions she has tirelessly organized – one way to keep the folk music she so loves alive for everyone. She has taken her singing to England on several occasions, where she has been welcomed, sharing many of our Australian songs with her audiences as well as bringing back to us songs she has heard during her travels.

It is against this backdrop that Steadfast has such a special meaning and role. It is Margaret Walters at her best, a faith-ful showcase of her special voice and style, as well as the range of songs she has collected and sung over the years.

I have often wondered, “Where does she get all these songs?” Many in this CD are quite new to me. They are all presented in her own way, and most feature a traditional sound, even if not actually traditional. Each one is appealing in its own right, and there are little stories and twists to keep our interest. Some of the more serious songs, delivered with emotion and fervour, are towards the end. They creep up on the listener to demand closer attention and are a testament to the social and environmental concerns that permeate much of

Margaret’s singing.

No doubt there are still people around who are surprised to find that unaccompanied singing can be interesting even with-out embellishment from instruments, but Margaret has already shown that it can be successful and she takes it further with Steadfast. Anyone, whatever his or her musical preference, can enjoy this style of singing as she presents it here -- it is definitely not a niche album. Surprisingly, it is even great to have playing in the background – something I normally don’t recommend! But I find it relaxing to put the CD on during the day & just let the vocal sounds & the melodies wash over me.

An attentive listen, of course, is in order and there is a rich variety of themes, sentiments and fine music to reward the discerning listener.

Lovely harmonies from Christina Mimmochi add a new dimension to several of the songs. One of my favourites is a charming ballad by Anne Lister entitled Rosemarie, based on a traditional Flemish song and beautifully adapted. The harmonies add poignancy and sweetness, and I just kept on listening (one of the longer songs) to find out what happened to the heroine – like many of the songs Margaret has chosen, strong womanhood wins out!

If you know Margaret Walters you will be more than satisfied with her latest offering. And if you are not familiar with her work this will be a fine introduction.

Mary-Jane Field

Focus on Folk6-7pm 1st & 3rd Saturdays

6 Dec Paul Jackson - some of his favourite folk20 Dec John Penhallow's Christmas Special will charm all

In 2015, Focus on Folk will come to the world only once per month on the first Saturday.

3rd Jan Kate Delaney starts a new year with her selectionAnyone with a CD they would like to add to the library collection for consideration for airplay please forward to:

Focus on Folk, Post Office Box A182, Sydney South 1235.


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Cecily Cork 4384 3527, Jan McCudden 4329 5537Greek Folk Dance. Pan 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 womenSchool 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. $4 (1st night free) Beginners most welcome. Partners not necessary.Mike 9520 2859Sutherland Shire Folk Dance GroupInternational dancing, Como Guides Hall, cnr Warraba & Mulyan Sts, Como West 9.30a, - 11am & 11.30am - 12.30pm. Kaye 9528 4813, [email protected] Country Dancing for the over 55’s. American Contra + Beginners English, 11.30am - 1pm. Advanced English 2-4pm. School for Seniors, Wesley Mission, 220 Pitt St. Sydney. (Opposite back of Hilton Hotel.) Roslyn 9263 5416English Country Dancing. 1st & 3rd Thurs. Church by the Bridge hall (St John’s Anglican), Broughton St (cnr Bligh St), Kirribilli. Enter courtyard gate - hall is on right. 7.15-9.15pm. Donations (optional), for the church or expenses. Please email Margaret Swait, so that you can be advised of schedule changes: [email protected] Labyrinth International Folk Dance from 7pm, Baptist Church Hall, King St Glenbrook. Jo Barrett 4739 6498Greek Folk DanceMytelinean House. 225 Canterbury Rd, Canterbury.Adult classes from 7.30pm - 9.00pm (Clio Group - 21 years and up Greek dances). Cost involved. Vasilios Aligiannis, tel/fax 9708 1875 [email protected] Shire Folk Dance GroupInternational dancing. Scout Hall, June Place, Gymea Bay. 10am. Kaye 9528 4813 [email protected] Irish Ceili Dancers Kingsgrove Uniting Church Hall, 289A Kingsgrove Rd (cnr Moreton Avenue, Kingsgrove. Beginners to intermediate step dancing 6pm, advanced 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. Greek Dancing. St Therapon Greek Orthodox Parish (Church Hall) 323 Cumberland Highway, Thornleigh. Time: Juniors 6.30pm - 7.30pm (Callipe Group)Pontian House. 15 Riverview Rd, Earlwood. Junior Class - 6.30pm - 7.30pm (Thalia junior group - 3yrs to 12 yrs. Class is free, Pontian only)International Dancing. Sedenka 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 Dancing■Caringbah Seniors Hall, 386 Port Hacking Rd, Car-ingbah (rear Library), 8pm. Beginners/other levels. G. Milton 9524 4943, Erica Nimmo 9520 4781

MondayBush 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. Debbie 4294 1363. 0427 315 245Scottish 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 DancePontian House, 15 Riverview Rd, Earlwood. Adult class 7.30pm - 9.00pm (Senior Diogenes Grooup - 15 yrs to adult. Cost involved.Vas Aligiannis, 0407 081 875, [email protected]. www.greekdancing.com.auHungarian Dance ClassSt Peters Public School, 8-10pm. Gary Dawson 0425 268 505. [email protected] 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 4813Sydney Playford Dance Group (English country dancing from 1650 onwards). 1st Tuesday, Feb-Dec (unless clashing with festivals). Live music. Bush Music Club, Hut 4, Community Centre, 142 Addison Road, Marrickville. 7.30pm - 9.30pm. $5, $3. Julie 9524 0247. facebook.com/sydneyplayfordTurkish 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] Scottish Country Dance Society7-10pm, Church of Christ, Henry Parry Drive, Wyoming.

folk contactsCHOIrSMonday■AshCappella Ashfield, led by Mary-Jane Field, 9090 2362■Ecopella. Blue Mountains, contact Miguel Heatwole, 9810 4601 [email protected]■Glory Bound Groove Train. Petersham, led by Linda Calgaro, 9518 4135■Inner West Chamber Choir, Leichhardt, led by Rachelle Elliott. 9797 1917. [email protected].■Intonations. Manly, led by Karen Smith, 0415 221 113, [email protected]■Martenitsa. Ultimo, led by Mara & Llew Kiek, 47514910 ■People’s Chorus. Newcastle, led by Rod Noble, 49 623432■Unaccompanied Baggage. North Sydney, led by Stuart Davis, [email protected]■Voiceworks, Katoomba, ledby Rachel Hore 4759 2456, [email protected]■Ecopella. Illawarra area (alternate Tuesdays), led by Miguel Heatwole 9810 4601, [email protected] ■Roc Lawson, led by Rachel Hore, 47592456, [email protected]■The Honeybees. East Sydney, led by Dynes Austin. Contact Jenny Jackson, 9816 4577 [email protected] ■Sydney Trade Union Choir Sydney City, contact Nola Cooper 9587 1165 - [email protected]■Songs Next Door, Seaview Street, Dulwich Hill, meets weekly at Sea View Hall, Seaview St, Dulwich Hill. 12.30pm. (Seniors mostly) Contact Allan 9520 6180Wednesday■Choralation. Abbotsford (school terms), contact Margaret Grove [email protected] ■Ecopella. Erskineville, led by Miguel Heatwole, 9810 4601 [email protected]■The Heathens. Blackheath, day time 2pm- 4pm. Led by Chris Wheeler 4787 5725 chriswheelersanddealers.com.au■The Spots. Christina Mimmocchi, Randwick 0410 682 061The Sydney Welsh Choir, men and women. Meet on Wednesday evenings at Concord Baptist Church hall. 7pm - 9pm. 20 plus performances per year. Contact MD Viv 4739 0384, [email protected]. President Clive 9997 2019.thursday■Bouddi Voice. Kincumber (school terms), led by C & C Sainsbury, contact 43 683270■Chorella Community Choir. Richmond, contact Ellen 4578 2975 ■Cleftomaniacs. Waterloo, led by Gary Smith, [email protected] ■Solidarity Choir. Erskineville, contact Cathy Rytmeister, 0438 683 867, [email protected]■Friday■The Sydney Street Choir. CBD, led by Peter Lehner 0425 268 771■Mudlarks, women’s a cappella choir. Woodford. Led by Alison Jones 4759 2880■Pacopezants. - Balkan Choir. Meets Fridays 4pm, Katoomba. Enquiries: June (02) 4782 1554. [email protected]■Blue Mountains Trade Union Choir. Upper Mts., contact Kate 47 82 5529

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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, ThursdaySutherland 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 Club■3rd 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.Saturday■Bluegrass & 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 Club■4th Sat, Annandale Neighbourhood Centre, 79 Johnston St, 8pm. Sandra Nixon, 9358 4886, [email protected]. www.theloadeddog.org.au■ The 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].■Troubadour Folk ClubCentral Coast, 4th Sat. in month 7pm CWA Hall, Woy Woy. (opposite Fisherman’s Wharf), The Boulevard, Woy Woy. Admission: $11/$9/$8. Floor spots available.. includes light supper. Marilyn or Frank 4341 4060 or 0419 231 319■Fairlight Folk Acoustic LoungeHeld four times a year, Feb, May, Aug. Nov (usually 1st Sat) 7.30pm. Comfortable, relaxed environment for quality live acoustic music. After show - jam. BYO drinks and nibbles. Light refreshments available. William St Studios, Fairlight (The Baptist Church down from Sydney Rd. Contact Rosie 9948 7993. www.fairlightfolk.com/index.htm

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, instruments including fiddle, flue, whistle, guitar, banjo. Gaelic Club, 64 Devonshire St. Surry Hills, 9212 1587 [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] Cronulla Music Club 1st Wednesday. Cronulla RSL 2pm - 5pm. Contact Brian Dunnett 02 9668 9051/Jenny 02 9576 2301Bush Bash. Weekly gathering celebrating Australian bush songs, ballads, city ditties, yarns, recitations, bush dance tunes. Imperial Hotel, 252 Oxford St, Paddington. 830pm-1030pm. (Lounge opens 7.30pm). Free. Warren Fahey [email protected]■Sutherland Acoustic4th Thursday of each. month from 7.30pm Gymea Tradies Club, Kingsway, Gymea. Friendly jam. All welcome to sing, play an instrument, recite poetry or just listen. Enq. Jenny 95762301■Blackheath Folk Club1st Thurs, 7.30pm, Ivanhoe Hotel, cnr Gt Wstn Hwy and Govetts Leap Rd. Christine Davies, Peter Duggan 4787 7246■Gaelic Club.Irish music session, 8pm. Plus Irish music lessons, instruments including fiddle, flute, whistle, guitar, banjo. Gaelic Club, Surry Hills 9212 1587 [email protected]

SaturdayBush Music Club Bush DancesBeecroft Dance, 1st Sat (except Jan), Beecroft Community Centre, Beecroft Road, 7.30 - 11.30pm. Sigrid 9980 7077, Wilma 9489 5594. Ermington Dance, June and Dec, Ermington Community Centre, 10 River Road, 7-11pm. Don 9642 7949. $19, $17, members $14. bushmusic.org.au■Central 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.Scottish and Old Time Dance■2nd Sat, 8pm, Uniting Church, 9-11 Bay St, Rockdale. $3 incl. supper. Chris Thom 9587 9966■Scottish 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 Class Rockdale. 6.30-8.30pm, $5. Y Kaporis 0412 861 187■Mortdale Scottish DancersLearners night (for learners and experienced), 7.30- 9.30pm. Pensioners Welfare Club Hall, 76 Pitt Street, Mortdale. Pam Jehan 9580 8564.■Linnéa Swedish FolkdancersEstonian House, 141 Campbell St, Surry Hills. New members welcome. For times contact Graeme Traves 9874 4194, [email protected]■Medieval Miscellany (Medieval Dancing). All Saints Parish House, cnr Oxford and Cromwell Sts, New Lambton. Saturdays, 3.30-5.30pm. $10. Dianne 4936 6220

Friday■Sutherland Acoustic4th Thursday of each. month from 7.30pm Gymea Tradies Club, Kingsway, Gymea. Friendly jam. Enq. Jenny 95762301■BMC 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]■Eastern Suburbs Poetry Group1st Friday, Church in the Market Place, Bondi Junction. 6.30-8.30pm. Gina 9349 6958Macquarie Towns Music Club. 3rd Friday every month, from 7.30pm. Bring along instruments, songs, poems etc, for fun, friendly night. Richmond Neighbourhood Centre, 20 West Market St, Richmond. $5, guests $8. [email protected] 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 4893Sunday■Hotel Illawarra Wollongong, 3rd Sunday, 3pm, spoken word, 5pm acoustic music ■Irish Music Session ellys, King Street, Newtown, 6pm. Enq. 9559 6300■Irish Music Session. 3rd Sunday. Bennet Hotel, Hamilton, 4-7.30pm Roz and Shane Kerr 44967 3167■Irish Music Sessions - Dicey Riley’s, Wollongong 2pm.■Music lessons for kids. 12 noon - 3pm. Focus on tin whistle. Gaelic Club. Surry Hills 9212 1587.■Music Session Hero of Waterloo, cnr Lower Fort St and Windmill Street, The Rocks. 6-10pm. Brendan 9818 4864

BAteMANS BAY: Scottish Country Danc-ing, Batemans Bay Caledonian Society -Tues-day 7.30pm at Batemans Bay Bowling Club - visitors welcome. Warren 4457 2065.BAtHURSt:Irish Ceili. Mon. 7.30 - 8.30pm. Irish Step dancing, 6.30 - 7.30pm. Bathurst CWA Hall, Russell Street.BeLLINgeN: Celtic Australian Session. Saturday from about 1pm. Northern end of Church Street cafe strip. John 6655 5898 Carole 6655 1225BLUe MOUNtAINS: Blue Mountains Heritage Dancers, Wednesday in term time, 730pm-930pm. Wentworth Falls SOA. 217 Great Westn Hwy. Caroline 0439 314 948, [email protected] or Patrick 0412 786 988Blue Mountains Folk. Mid Mountains Commuinity Centre. Joy Anderson Room, 7 New St, Lawson. 3rd Sunday, 3.30pm - 6pm. $7, $5, under 12 free. Nick Szentkuti 4758 7953, [email protected] Session at the Carrington, Katoomba. 4th Sunday, 3pm.BRAIDWOOD: Braidwood Folk Music Club meets every 3rd Thursday now at the Anglican Church Hall, BYO everything. Info Sue 4842 8142tallaganda Dance troupe. Folk dance, Mon. 9.30am (Noela 4842 8004) 35 Coronation Ave, Braidwood.BROKeN HILL: Occasional acoustic jam nights at Bell’s Milk Bar. Contact Broken Hill Art Exchange, (08) 8008 83171CANOWINDRACanowindra Folk Club. 4th Sun, 4pm. Fea-ture act plus open mic. taste Canowindra.CeNtRAL COASt, Troubadour 4th Sat. in month 7pm CWA Hall, Woy Woy. (opposite Fisherman’s Wharf), The Boulevard, Woy Woy. Admission: $11/$9/$8. Floor spots available.. includes light supper. Marilyn or Frank 4341 4060 or 0419 231 319COBARgO: Yuin Folk Club, Occasional Folk Nights. Enq. Richard Depledge 6493 6199. [email protected], website: www.cobargofolkfestival.com

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ACrOSS THE BOrDErlington. 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 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 3470.ORANGEOrange Dirt Music (new club) meets 3rd Saturday of the month from 3pm. These are jam sessions of acoustic folk, jazz, blues etc. rotating around each oth-ers’ houses and all are welcome. For more information and registration contact Cilla Kinross [email protected] tel 02 6365 8221 (ah) or Nick King 6362 .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. 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.tAReeLazarka International Folk Dance Group, Manning River Steiner School Hall, Wed. 5.30-8.30pm, Thurs 9am - 11am. Sandra 6552 5142.WAggA WAggADownside 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] Jam Session, 3rd Sat each month. 7.30-11pm. Thirroul Neighbouhood Centre next to post office.lllawarra Folk Club, 1st Friday and 3rd Saturday, Wollongong City Diggers Club, cnr Burelli & Church Streets, 1300 887 034 www.illawarrafolkclub.org.au Jamberoo: Session, Jamberoo Pub, Thurs, 7.30pm. [email protected]’s Breakfast, Wed. 7,.15am. Wollon-gong Writers’ Centre, Town Hall, Corrimal St. Tony Stoddart, [email protected] Folk Club, 12.30pm, Mondays, Fridays. Old timey, bluegrass, Celtic session. Duck Pond (in front of library), University of Wollongong. David Harman, [email protected] White Heather Scottish Country Dance Group, Mon, 7.30 -10pm, St Andrew’s Church Hall, Kembla St. All welcome. Arnold Thurl-ing 4228 1986 or Grace Halliday 4229 3480Wongawilli Colonial Dance Club, Bush Dance, Wed, 8pm, musos and dancers all welcome, Com-munity Hall, West Dapto Rd, Wongawilli. David 0409 57 1788. www.wongawillicolonialdance.org.au:

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.Jammalong at Up-Opping. 1st Sat, 10am-2pm. Church of Christ, 82-88 Limestone Ave, Ainslie. Free parking. Refreshments for sale.Shape Note Singing. 1st & 3rd Weds, 7-9pm. The Friends Meeting House, cnr Bent & Condamine Sts, Turner. Books provided; a desire to sing is all you need.Jammalong in Canberra. 2nd Sat, 12 noon till we have had enough. Under pergola beside Enid Lyons St, lake side of Questacon Building. Bring a song to share and a portable chair.Murrumbateman Acoustic Music Club. Last Sun of month, 6-9.15pm. Blackboard concert: 3 songs or 15 minutes per set. Country Inn, Barton Hwy. Eric 6254 4305

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]

COOMA, International Folk Dancing, Uniting Church Hall, Soho St, Thurs, 6pm. Fran 6453 3282 (h)DUBBO FOLK CLUB, Usually 2nd Sunday, 2.30pm, Western Star Hotel All welcome. Di Clifford 6882 0498 0458 032 150gOSFORD 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 gulgong Folk Club, 3rd Friday, Waratah Hotel, Mudgee 5pm. PO Box 340, Gulgong NSW 2852, Bob Campbell 02 6373 4600, gulgongfolkfestival.comGulgong Music Session. 2nd & 4th Thurs, 5-8pm. Centennial Hotel. 63722068 KIAMA “No Such Thing”. Yvonne O’Grady hosts an Australian tune session suitable for beginners every Monday in Kiama. Yvonne 02 4233 1073, [email protected] - Folk Club session. 1st Sun, 3pm. Courthouse Hotel. 6372 2068MUDgeeMusic Session. 1st & 3rd Thurs, 5-8pm. Courthouse Hotel. 63722068NeWCAStLe:Acoustic Folk Lounge, 1st Wednesdays, 7-10pm. Downstairs, Grand Hotel, cnr Church and Bolton Sts, Newcastle. Circle session. All welcome. 4967 3146, [email protected], Tracy 0402 761 520Bush and Colonial Dancing, 3rd Sund each month 2-4pm. Beginners and visitors always welcome. All Saints Anglican Hall, New Lamb-ton. Enq. Margaret Kenning 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.auTraditional Irish/Folk Session, 1st Sunday, 3-6pm. Lake Macquarie Hotel, opp. Morissett Railway Station. Gabriele 0418 146 555, Sharyn 0418 146 554, [email protected] Folk Circle, 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, 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.Welsh & 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-

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