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Folk Federation of New South Wales Inc Issue 445 November, 2012 $3.00

Dates For Your DiaryFolk NewsDance NewsCD Reviews

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Noreen Grunseit - writer of numerous award-winning folk dances including the hugely

popular 'Love Em & Leave Em'

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Renowned singer of traditional & contempo-rary folk songs Danny Spooner is appearing at The Loaded Dog on Saturday 24th Nov.

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Noreen GrunseitOne of the pioneers of Australian folk dancing

To be honest, I'd never heard of Noreen Grunseit until a few months ago when I received an email from her son Martin. Noreen had recently left her home and moved in to a retirement village and was hoping the Folk Federation and/or the Bush Music Club, would be able to find a good home for her collection of rare books and other folk-related stuff. Loosely Woven, a community-based music ensemble that I coordinate, spends one day a month performing concerts in retirement villages and nursing homes so I suggested to Martin that I organise for a perfor-mance at his mother's new home - Seabeach Gardens at Mona Vale.

It was only after this that I learnt that Noreen was very well known on the Australian and international folk scene for writing a number of well known dances including 'The Flying Pieman', 'Marching Through Georgia' and the extremely popular, gold medal award winning 'Love Em & Leave Em' which is used every year to finish the Bush Music Club's Heritage Ball. So, even though I hadn't heard of Noreen, I was certainly very familiar with and had gained many hours of pleasure from her 'creations' as I'm sure have many of you reading this.

Noreen was born in Singleton in 1924. In her 30s she spent quite a bit of time in England. She also travelled in France and Spain including a trip around Spain on a motor cycle with sidecar.

In the mid 1950s, she shared a flat in England with Lynette Hicks, another Australian very interested in learning various styles of folk dances including English country, Scottish and Dutch dancing.

In 1976, Noreen and Lynette attended the first dance class held by the Folk Federation of NSW's newly formed 'Sydney Play-ford Dance Group'. The teachers and students were astounded by the two women's mastery of English folk dances and soon after they were invited by the Federation to teach dances.

Julie Bishop, currently a very active member of the Federation and editor of Folkmail, started with her husband Alex at Sydney Playford in 1978 with Lynette and Noreen teaching. She says that the group back then was very vibrant and that they used to go up to the Newcastle Folk Festival each June where they would always dance 'Newcastle' (from Playford).

Until very recently, Noreen has been a regular attendee of the National Folk Festival in Canberra.

Thank you Noreen for the wonderful contribution you have made to the Australian folk dance scene and you can be assured that the legacy of that contribution will continue to be enjoyed by huge numbers of people for many years to come!

Wayne Richmond

(Thanks to Anne & Martin Grunseit, Julie Bishop & Lynette Hick for their assistance with this article.)

A young Noreen dancing in the yard of her Mona Vale home.

Noreen with members of Loosely Woven following a concert at her retirement village in October.


Metropolitan

dates for your diary - Nov 2012

Friday 2ndBush Music Club Singabout Night. 'Singing the Seasons' in a hot, dry country. Bring along a song or a poem, and food to share. Tritton Hall (Hut 44), Addison Road Community Centre, 142 Addison Rd, Mar-rickville. 8-10pm. $5. Bob Bolton 9569 7244, [email protected]

Illawarra Folk Club. 8 Pack - City Dig-gers Wollongong, cnr Church and Burelli Sts. 7.30pm. 1300 887 034, [email protected], www.illawarrafolkclub.org.auSaturday 3rdBeecroft Bush Dance. RYEBUCK BUSH BAND (caller Margaret Bolliger). Beecroft Community Centre, Beecroft Rd (opp. Fire Station). 8pm-12. All dances taught. $17, $14, $12, incl. supper. Sigrid 9980 7077, Wilma 9489 5594

The Shack. KEN McARTHUR. Keen guitarist for over 40 years who performed at 'The Shack' in the '60s, in Waterloo St. Has performed with James Blundell, Jimmy Little, Frankie J Holden, et al. Plays in his jazz quar-tet, a swing band, rock 'n' roll band, and solo. + DADDY LONG LEGS and the SWAMP DONKEYS. 'Gut Butter Blues' - an infusion of blues/ roots/ rambles. They play at festivals etc around Australia, and internationally. + SARAH & MARGIE - wonderful singers, performing as a duo for many years. Amaz-ing, exquisite harmonies; songs sung straight from the heart. + JAC-YVONNE - blends folk with re-verb soaked medieval pop. Tramshed Community Arts Centre, 1395a Pittwater Rd, Narrabeen (betw. car park & Ambulance in Narrabeen shops). 7.30-11pm. $20. 0413 635 856. www.theshacknarrabeen.com

Cat & Fiddle Hotel. SALLY KING, www.sallyking.com.au, a leading figure in Sydney blues, late '70s to late '90s, fronting her own bands, The Champions and The Mus-tangs, and appearing as guest artist with local and overseas acts. Now with a new band, Sametribe, and new album, with all original songs, featuring her soulful vocal style, strong melodies, danceable rhythms. 456 Darling St, Balmain (cnr Elliott St). 8pm. $25, $20. All tickets at door. Children welcome, if with parent. 9810 7931

Mondays 5th & 12thBush Music Club Dance Workshop. FAIR DINKUM!. Australian dances. Pen-nant Hills Community Centre, Yarrara Rd. 7.30-9.30pm. $7. Felicity 9456 2860

Thursday 8thSutherland Acoustic. A FEAST OF POETRY - Miguel Heatwole's interpretation of the life and poetry (some in song) of our first poet Frank the Poet (Frank MacNamara). Amazing story of Australia at its European be-ginnings and the spirit of one incredible man. + Central Coast performance poet Vic Jeffries, who has won a number of awards for his written work and for his performances. Also the launch of Sutherland Acoustic's outstand-ing poet Frank Bulgin's 2nd book (our Frank the Poet!). Floor spots (poetry only). Raffles. Balloons and cake - a celebration. Sutherland District Trade Union Club, Kingsway, Gymea (short walk from station). 7.30pm. $15, $10 (under-12 free!). Maeve 9520 5628

Friday 9thCat & Fiddle Hotel. MIKE COMPTON (USA) - www.mikecompton.net, Grammy Award winning American bluegrass man-dolin player, former protégé of the Father of Bluegrass, Bill Monroe. He played on the soundtracks of 'Oh Brother Where Art Thou?' and 'Cold Mountain', and has long been a member of legendary Nashville Bluegrass Band. His first ever Sydney concert. + The Stomp Cats. 456 Darling St, Balmain (cnr Elliott St). 8pm. $25, $20. All tickets at door. Children welcome, if with parent. 9810 7931

Saturday 10thHumph Hall - SNEZ - Multi-award win-ning singer/songwriter SNEZ has never been afraid to put her heart on her sleeve. Her many awards include Best International Pop

Artist – Toronto Music Magazine Awards and Winner of the Blue Mountains Acoustic & Roots Competition. Humph Hall, 85 Allambie Rd, Allambie Heights. 7pm. Free (donations of $25, $15 invited). Enq, bookings: 9939 8802, [email protected] humphhall.org

Central Coast Bush Dance. SYDNEY COVES. Sydney Coves. East Gosford Prog-ress Hall, cnr Wells St and Henry Parry Drive. 7.30-11.30pm. $18, $15, $12, $8 (students 13-18),under-12s $5 - includes supper. Robyn 4344 6484. www.ccbdma.org

Illawarra Folk Club. VIVA LA GONG. 8 acts. Folk Festival Lounge Venue, McCabe Park, Wollongong. From midday.

Sunday 11thCat & Fiddle Hotel. MAL EASTICK BAND www.maleastick.com Mal is widely considered Australia's finest electric blues guitarist, with a passionate, explosive and soulful style that has been featured with some of Australia's biggest recording and perform-ing acts for over 30 years. In the 1980s Mal played in the Jimmy Barnes Band, as well as his own touring outfit. Featuring the amaz-ing vocals of Milena Barrett, Stan Mobbs on bass, and Tony Boyd on drums. 456 Darling St, Balmain (cnr Elliott St). 2-6pm. $20, $15. All tickets at door. Children welcome, if with parent. 9810 7931

Thursday 15thCat & Fiddle Hotel. THE WHITETOP MOUNTAINEERS (USA) - Martha Spencer and Jackson Cunningham, with authentic old-time American mountain music from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Martha is also an exceptional Appalachian dancer. www.whitetopmountaineers.com 456 Darling St, Balmain (cnr Elliott St). 8pm. $25, $20. All tickets at door. Children welcome, if with parent. 9810 7931

Friday 16thHornsby-Ku-ring-gai Folk Club. CHLOE & SILAS- www.chloehall.com.au. There’s a lot to love about Chloe Hall and Silas Palmer. Their songs are insightful and distinctive, their performances finely judged. Chloe is the headliner - but Silas adds so much, with distinctive falsetto harmony vocals, subtle percussion and occasional comment on violin. A perfect combination. '... a woman at the top of her singer songwriter profession. She makes you laugh, cry, sigh and dream. And that voice… A treasure to file alongside Joni Mitchell, Nanci Griffith and Paul Simon.' Bart Rivers, Saturday Evening Post Magazine. Beatrice Taylor Hall, rear Wil-low Park Community Centre, Edgeworth Da-vid Ave, Hornsby. Doors open 7.30pm. $15. BYO drinks & nibbles- tea & coffee provided. Candle lit venue, tables can be booked: Barry Parks 9807 9497, [email protected]

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Saturday 17thBalmain Bush Dance with CURRA-WONG BUSH BAND. Caller John Short. Balmain High School (Sydney Secondary College, Balmain Campus), 25 Terry St, Rozelle. 8pm-12. All dances taught. $17, $14, $12, $35 Family, $8 student, incl. supper. Don 9642 7950. http://jam.org.au/moxie/venues/bmc/bush-music-club-balmain-bush-dance-20.shtml

Illawarra Folk Club DANNY SPOONER & more. City Diggers Wollongong, cnr Church and Burelli Sts. 7.30pm. 1300 887 034, [email protected], www.illawarrafolkclub.org.au

Sunday 18thHumph Hall - FUEGO BLANCO & NADIA PIAVE - One of the only established tango ensembles in Australia, Fuego Blanco have studied traditional tango in Buenos Ai-res. + Nadia Piave. Humph Hall, 85 Allambie Rd, Allambie Heights. 2pm. Free (donations of $25, $15 invited). Enq, bookings: 9939 8802, [email protected] humphhall.org

Turkish Paradise Restaurant - THE WHITETOP MOUNTAINEERS (USA) www.whitetopmountaineers.com (Virginia, USA). 89 Crown St, Wollongong. 4pm. 4227 6694, www.turkishparadiserestaurant.com.au

Monday 19thBush Music Club Dance Workshop. Review of some dances from the 2012 Heri-tage, Subscription and Flannel Flower Balls. Pennant Hills Community Centre, Yarrara Rd. 7.30-9.30pm. $7. Felicity 9456 2860

Saturday 24thThe Loaded Dog. DANNY SPOONER Singer (acoustic) of traditional and contem-porary folk songs of Britain and Australia. His passion is the expression of culture through folk music. For 30 years, audiences here have enjoyed his deep multi-disciplinary understanding of social history, his personal warmth, and his immense repertoire. + Bod-min Gaol - Nick Lock and Malcolm Clapp, regulars around the early 1980s Sydney folk scene, are doing a few gigs 'for old time's sake'. Emphasis on audience participation and humour, core repertoire of songs from Nick's native Cornwall, plus traditional style mate-rial from other parts of Britain and the music hall. Annandale Neighbourhood Centre, upstairs, 79 Johnston St. 8pm (doors 7.40). $15, $13. BYO, supper available. Sandra 9358 4886, www.theloadeddog.org.au

The Troubadour. BATTLERS' BALLAD - Chloë & Jason Roweth & Bill Browne. www.rowethmusic.com.au, with 'under-sung' Australian traditional, bush and contemporary music, and the story of the battlers, workers - convicts, bush workers, bushrangers, rail and road. CWA Hall (opp. Fisherman's Wharf), The Boulevarde, Woy Woy. 7pm. 4341 4060, [email protected].

The Whitetop Mountaineers (USA) are in touring Australia. Catch their authentic old-time American mountain music from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia at:Cat & Fiddle Hotel - Thursday 15thGallipoli Club, Newcastle - Friday 16thCanberra Musicians Club - Saturday 17thTurkish Paradise Rest, W'gong - Sun 18th

Sunday 25thIllawarra Folk Club - BILL JACKSON www.billjacksonmusic.com. Wongawilli Hall, West Dapto Rd. 4.30-7.30pm. 1300 887 034, [email protected], www.illawarrafolkclub.org.au

Monday 26thBush Music Club Dance Workshop Preview of dances for the Christmas Party. Pennant Hills Community Centre, Yarrara Rd. 7.30-9.30pm. $7. Felicity 9456 2860

Regional and ACTSaturday 3rdDAVID ROSS MACDONALD. www.da-vidrossmacdonald.com. Wesley Centre, 150 Beaumont St, Hamilton (Newcastle). 7.30pm. $15, $12, $10. Ron 4926 1313, 0427 261 313, Carole 4929 3912. www.newcastlehunt-ervalleyfolkclub.org.au

Saturday 10thNATIONAL JUNK BAND. www.nation-aljunkband.com. Narooma Quarterdeck Res-taurant, Riverside Drive. 8pm. 4476 2723, www.narooma.org.au/quarterdeck.html

Sunday 11thThe Artists Shed. GRACENOTES + AN-NIE PIPER. 14 Foster St (behind Magnet Mart off Yass Rd), Queanbeyan. 7.30pm. Entry by paper note donation. Ros 0438 768 754, www.artistsshed.com/Music/

Friday 16thGallipoli Club. THE WHITETOP MOUNTAINEERS (USA). www.whitetop-mountaineers.com 3 Beaumont St, Hamilton (Newcastle) (0407) 017 417Saturday 17thCANBERRA CONTRA CLUB'S HEY FE-VER BALL CONTRA DANCE. All dances taught & called. All welcome. St Ninian's Church Hall, cnr Mouat & Brigalow Sts, Ly-neham. 8-11.30pm. $18, $14. Rob 6251 1287THE WHITETOP MOUNTAINEERS (USA). www.whitetopmountaineers.com (Virginia, USA). Canberra Musicians Club, The White Eagle Polish Club, 38 David St, Turner. 8pm. www.canberramusiciansclub.org.au

Friday 23rdThe Front Gallery & Cafe. THE DAVIDSON BROTHERS www.davidson-brothersband.com. Shop 3, 1 Wattle Place, Lyneham ACT. 8.30pm. $15. Bookings 6249 8453. www.frontgallerycafe.com

Friday 30thJUGALUG www.jugalugstringband.com. Roxy Theatre & Greek Café, Bingara. www.roxybingara.com.au. 7pm.

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THE MERRY MUSEFriday 9th MIC CONWAY'S NATIONAL JUNK BAND + GREGORY PAGE (USA)Friday 16th JAN PRESTON + NICK RHE-INBERGERFriday 23rd THE STRELLEY PROJECTFriday 30th ST ANDREW'S NIGHT with Strathmannan, Seamus Gill et al.Presented by the Monaro Folk SocietyCanberra Southern Cross Club 54 McCaughey Street, Turner ACTEnquiries: Tim (0412) 463 388www.merrymuse.org.au


Maldon Folk Festival2nd - 5th November 2012Maldon Folk Festival, located in Central Victoria, has been held annually for more than 30 years. It offers 4 days of folk music and dance, musical theatre and interactive workshops, complemented by various activities around the Maldon township – in a natural setting and a relaxed atmosphere.

The historic Maldon township has an ambience dating from the Goldrush.

Performers include Michael the Balloonologist, because every festival needs balloon animals; Whitetop Mountain-eers (USA); Jimmy Moore (of Claddagh in Sydney); Jo Jo Smith Trio; Maria Forde; Margret RoadKnight; Maggie Rigby Trio; Taliska; The Croakers; Janette Geri; Darwin's Sunset Music Club; Dave de Hugard; Monro, O'Callaghan, Titchener; The Lazy Farmer's Sons; Myra and The Gra-cenotes; Mustered Courage; Le Blanc Bros Cajun Band; The Michelle Chandler Trio; Stax the Didgeman; Andy Rigby and Friends; Chloe and Silas; Frencham Smith; Bill Jackson with Pete Fidler and Ruth Hazleton; Colin Mockett; Odds and Sods; Harpers Bizarre; Martin Pearson; Archer and The Long Gone Daddys; and of course, The Maldon Brass Band.

Also performing are our song contest winners from 2011, Op Pep! and Tim Woods.

Plus The Stetson Family; Bob Balintine; Marie Brouder, Mary McBride and musicians to do the Irish Ceildh; Songs with Legs (Jane Thompson and Fay White); Mulga Bill; Marisa Yeaman; Graham Dodsworth; Danny Spooner; Unwanted Men in Black and a Lady; Jan 'Yarn' Wositzky; Stephen Whiteside; Suzette Herft; Richard Perso; Gleny Rae Virus and her Tamworth Playboys

Gulgong Folk Festival3rd- 6th January 2013Located in the charming historical gold rush town of Gulgong in the Central West of NSW (about 4 hours from Sydney) the Gulgong Folk Festival has for 26 years had a reputation as one of the best small festivals in the country and is well worth the post New Year's drive.

Featuring the cream of Australia's up and coming Folk, Country and Blues artists, it is a magnet for the serious mu-sic aficionado and has a reputation par excellence in music circles. Wander the historical township, walk into the many venues and soak up the atmosphere. Culminating in a huge street party on the Saturday night, this festival is one for the whole family. For more information including how to get your hands on tickets check out the official web site www.

festivals and events2nd - 5th November 2012Maldon Folk Festivalwww.maldonfolkfestival.com15th - 18th November 201224th National Bluegrass & Trad. Country Music Conventionwww.harrietvillebluegrass.com.au3rd - 6th January 2013Gulgong Folk Festival (0447) 036 783 www.gulgongfolkfestival.wordpress.com

gulgongfolkfestival.wordpress.com or visit the face book page https://www.facebook.com/gulgongfolkfestival.

This year’s lineup is huge and features some artists only just hitting the airwaves with JJJ and the focus is firmly on 'hot' Bluegrass. Buffalo [Wes Carr], Jack Carty, The Falls, April Maze, Matt Southon, Big Erle, Daniel Champagne, Bel-lyache Ben, Fanny Lumsden, Fleur Wiber, Rob Binks, Two Girls Will, Nick Wall, Jess Holland, Alexis Nicole, AJ Leon-ard, Rebecca Moore, Richard Perso, Kurt Gentle, Melody Jane Pool, Southerly Change, Marcus Holden, Brothers 3, Graeme Johnson, Brendan Gallagher, Tangleweed, Sug-arfoot, Freddie White (Ireland), Genevieve Chadwick, Faye Blais (Canada), Hobo Grace, Bob Skelton, Mustered Courage, Suzy Connolly, Kate Crowley, The Twoks, Jimmy Westwood, Kings of Congo Congo, Gerard Gilet, Des Kelly, Stringy Bark Bush Band, Violet Nights, Foundations Edge, Fig Jam, Graeme Johnson ... plus many more.

'Viva La Gong'The Illawarra Folk Festival will showcase an afternoon of folk acts who will be appearing at the festival, on one of three stages of the Wollongong Council's 'Viva La Gong" being held on November 10th. This will be a great day out and a chance to see and support some of the Festival acts. www.vivalagongfestival.org/Pages/default.aspx

Musicians, poets and storytellers and their family and friends can attend this event by travelling with us by train from the city to Wollongong station. We have made arrange-ment for a 'Folk' Carriage, to hold a session in the front car-riage of the Illawarra train, 10.13am out of Bondi Junction, and picking up at Central, Redfern, Wolli Creek, Hurstville, Sutherland, Waterfall, Helensburgh and Thirroul stations.

Leave your car at home, or park at one of the stations with a car park, for a music, poetry and storytelling session along the route of the Green Music Train (www.illawarrafolkfes-tival.com.au/page/MusicTrain) down through the National Park. The carriage holds up to 90 people and we are after about 50. So please form a small group or just come along with an instrument or your voice. Cost for the day is the price of a railway ticket. Buy at the station you get on at. If you have a group of 5 or more performers who might be interested please let me know. Plenty of trains go back at a time to suit your group. Brian Dunnett, Illawarra Folk Festi-val's Green Music Train Co-ordinator, 9668 9051.

Illawarra Folk Festival ShowcaseDavid De Santi is very happy to announce (thanks to John Gallagher) an Illawarra Folk Festival Showcase concert at the Cat and Fiddle in Balmain, on Sunday 16th December. 'We are hoping the 2013 festival can bolster our reserves to ensure the festival's continuity.' (This year's festival ran at a loss.) The concert will run from 1pm to 9.20pm, with 10 or 15 minute breaks between each act. At this stage, these will be the performers: The Con Artists (Community World Music Band) 1pm, Jan Preston (Honky Tonk Piano) 1.50, CJ Shaw and band (Songwriter) 2.30, Shameless Seamus and the Tullamore Dews (Trad Irish) 3.15, Pat Drummond (Songwriter) 4.05, Sydney Irish Ceili Dancers 4.55, Volat-insky Trio (Russian Folk) 5.30, Handsome Young Strangers (Colonial Bush Rock) 6.15, Mike McClellan (Songwriter) 7.10, The Amazing 3 (Songwriter) 8.05, Okapi Guitar Band with Paul Mbenna (African) 8.40. Entry will be $15 for adults, $10 for Festival Pass Holders. 'If punters buy on the day we're happy to provide the discounted price.'


2012 FAA Conference PostponedThe Folk Alliance Australia committee has decided after much deliberation that the FAA Conference planned for Octo-ber 2012 will have to be postponed. As we got further into the programming process it was obvious that many prospective presenters and attendees were not going to be available for the dates we had selected (and this due only to the availability of the venue). Given the event would be subsidised by members' funds, we were not confident that we could present a suffi-cient variety of sessions and quality presenters to offer value to the membership and conference attendees.

But all is not lost. The work which has already gone into the planning and programming process is fairly well advanced, so we do have a conference framework, budget etc which will provide a solid base upon which we can keep develop-ing, with a view to presenting a FAA Conference in Sep-tember 2013. It is important to us that the key players in the Folk Movement are able to attend the conference as it is our industry and artform national Convention. With this in mind we welcome the views of the membership on both timing and content of the conference. Hopefully we can gather somewhat more input from the membership than we have achieved up to now.

On the positive side, a sub group of the committee has put together a showcase event for new and emerging artists. The FOLKCITY Showcase will held at the Thornbury Theatre in Melbourne on 11 November. More details at www.folkalli-ance.org.au

Please do get in touch if you have any questions, suggestions for improvement of our services or general comment on the organisation.

For membership queries - Jim MacQuarrie [email protected]

For general queries - Bob Charter [email protected]

John McAuslan - Chairperson FAA

Music in Communities NetworkCalling All Choirs: Earlier this year MiCN commenced a new research agenda with a survey of Community Orchestras in Australia. After publishing that report, they are now working on a project which looks at all kinds of community choirs in Australia. If you're in a community choir, find out more at www.musicincommunities.org.au

Australian National Busking ChampionshipsThe Australian National Busking Championships™ , to be held on Sunday 4th November, are all about celebrating music in all its rich and wonderful variety. This year’s event will be the first of its kind for Cooma and the scenic Snowy Mountains of Australia. Musicians from all over Australia will play and compete in this new and exciting event, in three age categories. Organisers hope that all styles of music will be represented, such as Folk, Classical, Rock, Country, Jazz, Blues and more. So if you enjoy making music and entertain-

Folk News ing outdoors, this is the day for you. Put your hat out and make a bit of money, and be in the running for over $2000 in cash prizes.

On the same weekend, the 'Snowy Ride' - an annual motor-cycle event - raises money for Childhood Cancer Research. Also on that Sunday in Cooma at the Raglan Gallery is the nationally recognised poetry competition, 'A Feast of Poetry'. This year’s will feature a song writing competition as well as poetry. www.coomamusic.com.au/

Travelling with InstrumentsVirgin Australia has recently updated its carry-on baggage policy. The new policy means that while the number or weight of standard pieces of luggage carried on-board has not changed, the dimensions and type of instruments allowed on-board now includes most violins, trumpets and flutes.

'Smaller and often valuable musical instruments are now welcomed on-board to be placed in the overhead lockers. Guests are now able to substitute any of their standard pieces of carry-on luggage for a musical instrument provided it was no larger than 85 cm in length and 34 cm in width and 23 cm in height.' www.virginaustralia.com/au/en/plan/baggage/oversized-fragile-items/

Basically, violins and trumpets seem fine, saxophones and trombones should probably be checked for dimensions, guitars and cellos in general can be carried on board only if you purchase an additional seat. (If you're a Music in Com-munities Network member you can get up to 35kg of baggage allowance to check in your instruments. www.musicincom-munities.org.au/membership/membership)

Music and Local GovernmentMusic Victoria, the body representing contemporary music south of the Murray river (alongside MusicNSW, QMusic, Music SA, WAM and others around the country), have been asking some questions of Local Government candidates. MiCN have thought about doing this in the past and may pursue it with members' help for future elections, since local government is in many cases the institution most capable of supporting community-based music making. Some of these survey questions relate specifically to live music venues and the Agent of Change principle (dealing with noise complaints etc), other questions are about support for the arts in general. www.musicvictoria.com.au

Meanwhile, the City of Sydney will create a Live Music Taskforce to consider issues affecting live music and venues in the city.


The Eighteenth Blue Mountains Music Festival, Folk, Roots and Blues will bring you an extraordinary line-up of talent in 2013. Headlining the weekend is Australia's unique and internationally acclaimed Gurrumul Yun-upingu. This soulful and powerfully emotive Aboriginal singer-songwriter from Elcho Island in the far north has swept away commercial music conventions and estab-lished himself as a force and an inspiration in Australian music.

Sharing the top of the bill is the counter culture icon Arlo Guthrie. The son of America's much beloved Woody Guthrie, Arlo grew up surrounded by the cream of the folk movement, including Pete Seeger, The Weav-ers, Ramblin' Jack Elliot and Leadbelly.

One of the the next festival's great acts to get excited about is Canada's Zoë Keating, who is a one-woman orchestra. She uses a cello and a foot-controlled laptop to record layer upon layer of cello, creating intricate, haunting and compelling music. The cello has emerged

as the theme instrument for the 2013 festivities. The violincello as it was originally known has overshadowed the banjos and fiddles this year. Guitars may never be outnumbered, and we'll tell you more about our Guitar Circles in a later newsletter.

Another of the cellists playing in 2013 is Natalie Haas who will create Celtic magic with Scottish virtuoso Alasdair Fraser, acclaimed in the San Francisco Exam-iner as "the Michael Jordan of the Scottish fiddle".

Look out for rising Australian performers like Liz Stringer, Ngaiire, Kim Churchill, Nick and Liesl and The April Maze who will be wielding one of this year's cellos. If you haven't yet experienced the Perch Creek Family Jugband it's time you saw these 'goodtime music' loving siblings give Jim Kweskin a run for his money.

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Some personal reflections . . .The Old Goulburn Brewery with its low ceilings, exposed beams, whitewash and well worn stone corridors provided an inspirational setting for some rich and rare Australian music. Sitting on wooden pews we soaked up Marg and Bob Fagan's battlers theme concert; they sing so easily together, unac-companied - and what a joy to join in! The workshop subjects were meaty - Chris Sullivan's presentation stands out, such a depth of knowledge and extraordinary material. We enjoyed Samantha O'Brien and Eric Eisler and their presentation on the dance music of The Nulla Nulla very much. From the dances to the workshops and concerts, the wealth of experi-ence, knowledge and good company on offer was a fine thing - Bring on next year!

Chloë & Jason Roweth

One of my favourite times of year is heading south to attend the Bush Traditions Gathering held at the Old Goulburn Brewery each October.

Catching up with friends, sharing music, stories and laughs, learning more about our heritage, the people, the traditions…. There were many highlights over the weekend. I sat in on the late session in the Maltings on Saturday night, listening to Chris Sullivan and Bob Campbell sing and play, their style and technique like no other. Chloe & Jason’s shows are al-ways special and what a great new repertoire they had. There is one song in particular where Chloe sings a soft, slow yodel through-out, beautifully delicate, accompanied by Jason’s subtle playing, just gave me goosebumps.

My favourite moment was on the Sunday evening at the Bush Dance in the Mill Room between dance brackets when the entire room would just fall silent and listen to floor-spot performances. How beautiful it was listening to young Claire Doherty play her violin, I had tears in my eyes at listening to such talent! I was mesmerised in particular by Chris Sullivan sitting in the middle of the room with his button accordion, tapping a steady rhythm on the side while singing aboriginal folk song, “Jacky, Jacky”.

It’s always sad when the Gathering has to finish for another year, but happy in the thought that I have left the place with new insight and just feeling inspired all round!

Samantha O'Brien

Bush Traditions Gathering - Goulburn 2012

Chloë & Jason Roweth

Claire Doherty

The Old Goulburn Brewery

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Andrew Johnson videoing Sam & Eric. During the weekend Andrew made around 15 hours of recordings which will eventually find their way on to YouTube and the Bush Traditions web site.


Dubbo Folk ClubThe Dubbo Folk club is a really great venue for local and visiting artists. It‘s possibly one of the only music clubs in that part of the Central West. You couldn’t get a better venue in this area to hear folk, contemporary and many other styles of music. I was their guest in September and looked forward to my second visit to Dubbo. It’s a club for listening and meeting people who share the same types of music.

The Sunday afternoon concert started off with Narromine singer/songwriter Jock Webb. He has a great voice and sang some very good original songs. Next were Di Clif-ford and Kath Morgan (duo) who sang beautiful folk songs with close harmonies. So good to hear beautiful singing. A highlight was the song/poem written by Les Barker, “Myrtle the Turtle’ or ‘Will the turtle be unbro-ken’, a parody of the American song “Will the circle be broken’. It is good to know that whistling is still popular. Judging by what I heard of Dennis Murphy, who very softly whistled in the background. This is becoming a lost art; hope we hear more. I thought his sweet sounds were so much like the birds I heard in Dubbo, which is a great bird watchers paradise.

There are many good performers in this club like Jane Harding (quite busy travelling around performing, playing with the Badja River group. A very versatile performer who has made a CD, as well. There are many others like singer Dawn Brydon, Peter Aland (singer, plays guitar and mandolin), Kath Morgan (beautiful soprano voice, plays tenor recorder and the harp), and Beth Good, who played my guitar and sang a great old rock and roll song at the break, where we all joined in. If you sing, play an instrument, recite, or write poems, whistle, or even play a gum leaf, the Dubbo Folk Club is the club for you.

Folk Clubs are the backbone of the folk and music scene and the community. It’s one of the few places where singers, song-writers, poets and musicians to get a fair go and can find an audience who will listen. It’s a great community activity that doesn’t cost a lot and part of our heritage and culture. The new Dubbo Regional Theatre is a leader in the arts in NSW. Dubbo is a beautiful City, by a wonderful river and has as one of the finest Zoo’s in the country. Don’t let us forget the beautiful native birds, also.

Sonia Bennett (Singer/songwriter/guitarist)

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Located in the charming historical gold rush town of Gulgong in the Central West of NSW (about 4 hours from Sydney) the Gulgong Folk Festival has for 26 years had a reputation as one of the best small festivals in the country and is well worth the post New Years drive.

Featuring the cream of Australia's up and coming Folk, Coun-try and Blues artists it is a magnet for the serious music afi-cionado and has a reputation par excellence in music circles. Wander the historical township, walk into the many venues & soak up the atmosphere. Culminating in a huge street party on the Saturday night, this festival is one for the whole family. For more information including how to get your hands on tickets check out the web site or visit the Facebook page.

This year’s lineup is huge and features some artists only just hitting the airwaves with JJJ and the focus is firmly on “Hot” Bluegrass

Buffalo [Wes Carr], Jack Carty, The Falls, April Maze, Matt Southon, Big Erle, Daniel Champagne, Bellyache Ben, Fanny Lumsden, Fleur Wiber, Rob Binks, Two Girls Will, Nick Wall, Jess Holland, Alexis Nicole, AJ Leonard, Rebecca Moore, Richard Perso, Kurt Gentle, Melody Jane

Pool, Southerly Change, Marcus Holden, Brothers 3, Graeme Johnson, Brendan Gallagher, Tangleweed, Sugarfoot, Freddie White [Ireland] Genevieve Chadwick, Faye Blais [Canada], Hobo Grace, Bob Skelton, , Mustered Courage, Suzy Con-nolly, Kate Crowley, The Twoks, Jimmy Westwood, Kings of Congo Congo, Gerard Gilet, Des Kelly, Stringy Bark Bush Band, Violet Nights, Foundations Edge, Fig Jam, Graeme Johnson plus many more!

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Weevils in the FlowerA preliminary history of a songA 1970s recording of Declan Affley singing ‘Weevils in the Flour’ at a Sydney folk festival concert is one of many songs chosen for the Living Democracy exhibition which opened in July 2009 in the Museum of Austral-ian Democracy, Old Parliament House.

The song has an interesting history bound up with the folk song movement, Australian literature and Australian indus-trial history since the 1930s depression. A history so interest-ing that the song has accreted a fair amount of folklore itself. Sometimes it is published as an anonymous song written in Newcastle in the 1930s. It was one many new

Australian songs that a small gathering of Sydney folkies in Barbara Lysiak’s home sang to Pete Seeger during his visit in 1963.

The first recording of the song on a 1965 LP of Austral-ian contemporary songs came under threat of legal action from Australia’s most powerful mining and steel making company BHP, the ‘Big Australian’. In the next 20 years its influence spread. It be-

come a workers’ anthem and had its title borrowed for a pioneering oral history of the depression. The phrase ‘weevils in the flour’ entered the Australian vernacular.

‘Weevils in the Flour’ began its journey to a song as a poem writ-ten by Dorothy Hewett with the title ‘Where I Grew To Be a Man’. It was published in 1963 in ‘What About The People!’ Hewett’s joint

collection of 75 poems with her husband, Merv Lilley. The collection was published by the National Council of the Real-ist Writers Groups. Somewhere along its journey the poem also got known by another name ‘Island in a River’.

Hewett wrote the poem in the 1950s based on depression experiences told to her by her friend Vera Deacon.

In 1976 when Len Fox was writing his book “Depression Down Under”, he asked Deacon to write about own childhood memo-ries of depression-time for the book. Anyone familiar with Hewett’s song will immediately the following quote from Deacon in Fox’s book:

‘Dominating all was the steelworks. Its dark angled size, far away against the eastern sky, awed me. Tall chimneys plumed dark smoke across the sky. Every now and then a great white cloud billowed above the steel-works. This, Mother told me, was caused by the quenching of the coke pushed from the giant ovens where Dad worked. When I was a baby Dad had been badly burned. Years later he described to me how he and his

mates worked on the ovens: the men wore wooden clogs which smouldered on their feet as the hand-forked the incan-descent coke and quenched it with hand-held hoses, steam rising and sizzling around their faces.’ (Len Fox, 1977)

Folk singers in the 1960s were attracted enough to Hewett and Lilley’s poems to set a number of them to music. Chris Kempster and Bill Berry both wrote tunes for Hewett’s ‘The Sailor Home From The Sea’. They also wrote tunes for Lil-ley’s poems, Berry for ‘The Birchgrove Park’ and Kempster for ‘Cane Killed Abel’. The Bush Music Club published Hewett’s ‘Ballad of Norman Brown’ to the tune of an English mining song.

In 1963 Mike Leyden set four of Hewett’s poems to music ‘Atomic Lullaby’, ‘Sweet Song for Katie’, ‘Verwoerd, Ver-woerd They Cry’ and, most famously, ‘Where I Grew To Be a Man’ to which he gave the title ‘Weevils in the Flour’.

Leyden and I along with Jeanie Lewis and John Laver were

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members of a singing group called the Radiation Quartette and we sang all of these songs especially Weevils in the Flour.

All of these new songs were published in the Sydney Uni-versity Folk Music Society’s 1965 songbook ‘Songs of Our Time’. In the same year a number of Leyden’s songs and set-tings were published in folk magazine ‘Tradition’. The Fagans would later reset ‘Ballad of Norman Brown’ to a tune Hewett sang to them and later still Kempster would set Hewett’s ‘Clancy and Dooley and Don McLeod’ to music. Even more recently Hewett’s son Tom Flood has composed another set-ting for that ground-breaking poem. Perhaps that fact that so many of the poems gained a tune should not surprise us.

In the book Hewett wrote:

‘A poem is a SONG that comes from the people to be given back to the people. Work ... joy ... pain ... struggle ... achieve-ment ... from these come the poems that are SONGS.’ She also wrote: ‘This is the folklore of the twentieth century.’ and ‘We live in an industrialised country. The old, slow, rollocking rhythm of horse and intinerent worker has given way the a harsh, staccato, jazzy beat of jackhammer, train, plane, dock and mechanised mine ... a great mass of mechanised, organ-ised labour.’

Can literature borrow from folk song? There is plenty of evidence that it can. Can folk song grow out of literature? Folklorists have argued the case back and forth for genera-tions. I think ‘Weevils in the Flour’ is a handy example for those who argue the case for industrial folk song, folk song in the age of mass literacy, folk song whose boundaries includes urban lives and the concerns of the industrial era and become reports from a changing society.

‘Weevils in the Flour’ deals with mass unemployment, the ‘dole and stew’, the greed and charity, the heavy metal pol-lution and ends with the determination of industrial workers to change the way they’ve been treated, these are people who came through the depression and ‘grew hard as iron on that black bread and sour’. The argument is made for a social ar-rangement that no longer accepts that ‘the bellies of the few’ should be filled at the expense of ‘the hunger of the many’.

‘Weevils in the Flour’ was first recorded by Gary Shearston on his influential LP ‘Australian Broadside: Contemporary Songs from the Australian Folk Revival’ for the CBS label in 1965. Shearston was forced to change a line in the song because BHP threatened to sue. Where originally the song had the phrase ‘Stood the mighty BHP’ Shearston sang ‘Stood a mighty factory’.

The 1965 release of Shearston’s LP of contemporary Austral-ian songs made a big impression on a young Canberra student Bob Fagan who added many of the songs including ‘Weevils in the Flour’ in his growing repertory.

Years later he would find out more about the song from Hewett herself as he explained when introducing the song at a National Folk Festival workshop:

‘Dorothy said that a young man had picked her up to take her the University of Newcastle where she was going to be a Writer in Residence for a while, and as they were driving past the four stacks of the BHP steelworks there the young man said ‘You know there was a poem written there on Kooragang

Island by some unknown industrial worker in the 1930s.’ and Dorothy said ‘I didn’t know whether to say I’m actually that unknown industrial worker and I wrote it on my kitchen table in the 1950s’ but I think she did tell him.’

Maybe we should accept this as evidence of a song accreting industrial folklore, literature

evolving into folk song.

‘Weevils in the Flour’ became a favorite for folk singers and union choirs, a political anthem of sorts you would hear in workers pubs like the Criterion or the Sussex in Sydney’s Sussex Street before they were demolished. Later it was sung by the workers occupying the Cockatoo Island Docks in Syd-ney Harbour before its closure in 1992.

In 2003 Merv Lilley told me:

‘I don’t know whether I should tell stories about Dorothy’s writing or not. I saw her write Island in a River. She had said something she’d written to Tribune and Rex Chiplin had sent it back he said it wasn’t political enough. So she says ‘I’ll give them something political!’ and she wrote Island in a River.’

The song is still being recorded - In 2010 Martyn Wyndham-Read included it on his CD ‘Back to You’ undoubtedly ex-panding its geographical reach from it’s origins in Newcastle NSW. Margaret Walters has recorded it even more recently for a CD titled ‘We Made the Steel’ due for release October 2012. It seems to me that as well as having many stories at-tached to it the song is doing fine and that is great tribute to the poem that Dorothy wrote so long ago.

The song came from oral history and it it is still being sung. A couple of weeks ago I heard Miguel Heatwole sing it and he had put back a couple of the verses from the original poem that Leyden left out of the song.

Mark Gregory


The Lucky Wonders: Lay Down My Arms (Independent)

Throughout much of 2010, Lucy the WonderBus (an old school bus converted into a motor home) travelled the nation taking Australian roots/pop/folk group, The Lucky Wonders, on a 40 plus gig tour in support of their debut album, Thirteen O’Clock.

Now The Lucky Wonders, who are based on the far north coast of New South Wales, have released their second album, Lay Down My Arms.

The key members of The Lucky Wonders are Jessie Vin-tila (song writing, lead vocals, rhythm guitar, ukulele, keys, flute, glockenspiel), Emma Royle (song writing, backing vocals, rhythm and lead guitars, ukulele) and Anastassijah Scales (drums, percussion).

Other musicians on Lay Down My Arms include Ben Franz (bass, lap steel), Govinda Doyle (bass), Thierry Fos-semalle (bass), Cye Wood (violin, viola).

Jessie Vintila, originally from Western Australia, has a background in classical and jazz flute, is the winner of a Western Australian Music Industry (WAMI) Award (for the reconciliation song ‘Colony’), was formerly part of the duo, Two Colour Mountain, and is gospel choir director.

Emma Royle spent the first few years of her life in Can-berra, subsequently studying art for three years, then spend-ing four years doing a carpentry apprenticeship through the Master Builders Association (winning various awards and being named Apprentice of the Year). Although Royle wrote her first song before she turned ten, it took her until her early twenties to start writing and performing seriously.

Anastassijah Scales grew up in Armidale and Coffs Har-bour, studying music at Southern Cross University (Lismore). Scales began performing, singing and playing guitar in her early teens, and drumming in bands when she was about seventeen. As well as her work with The Lucky Wonders, Anastassijah Scales is a songwriter, plays drums and percus-sion in the metal band, The Argonauts, and performs acoustic hip hop as Nastaij.

The Lucky Wonders’ new album, Lay Down My Arms, again shows very strong song writing from Vintila and Royle and is full of sensitive, personal songs that explore life expe-riences, with warmth, love, hope and kindness.

Among the standout songs on the album are:‘Valium & Your Arms’ (“The fear shook me through

Web NotesNATIONAL JUKEBOX – LIBRARY OF CONGRESS (www.loc.gov/jukebox) - Historical recordings from the Library of Congress, including Elsie Baker performing ‘In An Old-Fashioned Town’ (1917)

JENNY BIDDLE (www.jennybiddle.com) - Celebrating the making of Ann Marie (her new acoustic guitar)

VINTAGE CASSETTES (vintagecassettes.com) - A pictorial history of audio cassettes (1963-2010)

CATHERINE BRITT (www.catherinebritt.com) - New al-bum, Always Never Enough, with ‘Two Steps’ (in support of

the night/I cried and I shivered, I wished it all goodbye/The valium and your arms held me tight”)

‘Sand & The Sea’ (“I lay my head on your shoulders/The kiss that you kiss/On top of my head/Says everything is here, here”)

‘I’ll Be Fine’ (“I do hope that you go out dancing/Your happiness well it makes me happy too/I know I ought to get out of here/Maybe see some friends and drink some beer/But the truth is my heart’s just not in it”)

‘Surrender’ (“So hard to find the softness in you sometimes/I’ll find it if I show it you say/Gotta lay down my defenses/And lay them down again/I don’t need them here/I’ll come to you bare”)

‘Walk with Me’ (“Walking through the rain/Walking through the snow/Walking through the highs/Walking through the lows”)

‘Thing About Leaving’ (“When I’m at home I feel this calming in my soul/I watch the sun go down behind the banana grove/Any minute you’ll appear in front of me/The sweetest thing about leaving/Is coming back again”)

The release of Lay Down My Arms confirms The Lucky Wonders as a major talent on the roots/pop/folk music scene, with their insightful, Australian-sounding songs working equally well in live performance and as recorded pieces.

The Lucky Wonders’ music (www.theluckywonders.com) is distributed through Vitamin Records (www.vitamin.net.au).

Sue Barrett

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FREIGHT TRAIN BOOGIE (www.freighttrainboogie.com) - Americana music, alternative country, roots rock

ANGE MURPHY (www.angemurphymusic.com) - Bare footed, guitar in hand, harmonica not too far behind, voice of an Angel

MUSIC CHARTS ALL OVER THE WORLD (www.lanet.lv/misc/charts) - At #8 on Stanford University’s KZSU country/bluegrass chart, I See Hawks in LA with New Kind of Lonely

Sue Barrett


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