CHANGE OF PROGRAM – unfortunately Wombat’s Crossing can’t be with us –
Tritton Hall, Hut 44, Addison Road Centre, 142 Addison Road, Marrickville
$20/18 Cash at the door (ATM in the Vic on the Park, 2 Addison Road)
60 minutes each from
Kerith Power
I have been a songwriter-singer and guitar player since 1963. I have played as a member of the traditional dance bands Nightcap String Band and Heroines Riding Bareback at Woodford, the National Folk Festival and Port Fairy. In 1982 with feminist colleagues I organised a women’s concert in my home town of Lismore featuring Margret Roadknight and local musicians. The Lismore Women’s Music Collective then co-ordinated four National Women’s Music Festivals biennially in Lismore NSW from1985 on. Through the festivals I established contacts all over Australia. In 1988 I sent out a national call for cassette recordings to compile the First Australian Women’s Song Book. By 1991 I had a complete draft. Life took over until 2017, when working at the Jessie Street National Women’s Library I compiled a website First Australian Woman’s Songbook that contains images, biographies, audio samples, sheet music and background information for the fifty songwriters and songs represented. With support from Dale Dengate, in 2022 we launched the songbook with a live concert featuring songwriters from the book at the National Folk Festival . With Dale Dengate and Jane Ellis I also sang Don’t Be Too Polite, Girls on the 50th anniversary of Glen Tomasetti’s equal pay anthem. We adopted this title as the name of our group and continue to perform together. Our last concert was at the Thirroul Heritage Hall and we are performing at the 2026 National Folk Festival.
My own songs number in the hundreds, many remaining undocumented. Two cassette recordings, Liberation Road and Birds of Passage, can be found by searching for Kerith Power on Soundcloud.
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Pump & Pyro –
Ian Macintosh (‘Pump’ – Melodeon and Guitar) and Tony Pyrzakowski (‘Pyro’ – Fiddle) are core members of the musical collective known variously as The Wheeze and Suck Band and Traditional Graffiti. Originating from the London area of the UK, and both also being visual artists, they have performed together for more than twenty years in those bands and as a duo.
Pump writes songs, and Pyro creates beautiful fiddle music around the songs, and traditional English tunes. Pump & Pyro have just released The Bedlam Suite, a download-only album of original and traditional music and songs inspired by some of the great creative individuals that have been incarcerated in asylums, such as the historic Bethlehem Hospital in London.
Find Pump & Pyro’s ‘Bedlam Suite’ at https://traditionalgraffiti.bandcamp.com/album/the-bedlam-suite
Sandra Nixon
Loaded Dog Folk Club
Tritton Hall, Hut 44, Bush Music Club, Addison Road Centre, 142 Addison Road, Marrickville
Park in the carpark and follow the path on the right side of the big hall – Hut 44 is across the grass, decorated with dancers & musicians. The 428 bus (Canterbury/CBD) stops right outside the Centre.
doors open 7 for 7.30 start, usually 4th Saturdays Feb-Nov
Costs $18/20, CASH AT THE DOOR, ATM in the Victoria on the Park pub – BYO, light supper available, gold coin
Texts 0492 977 202, enquires & bookings kxbears@gmail.com
www.theloadeddog.org.au https://www.facebook.com/The.Loaded.Dog.Folk.Club
https://www.youtube.com/user/LoadedDogFolkClub
Information for performers https://folkfednsw.org.au/about-the-loaded-dog-folk-club/
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2026 Calendar –
SAT 28th FEBRUARY – Kerith Power + Pump & Pyro
SAT 28th MARCH – Maurie Mulheron & friends + Solidarity Choir
SAT 18th APRIL (3rd Sat) – Felicity Dowd + The Wild Women of Anywhere Beach
SAT 23rd MAY – Folk Federation 2024 & 2025 Young Folk Artists –
Ais O’Neill, Lucy Beveridge, Sam Fletcher, Gabi Forman
SAT 27th JUNE – Best of Newcastle!! Tripple Effect + Sweet Songs and Soft Guitar
SAT 25th July – Traditional Graffiti + Graeme Clark
Sat 22nd AUGUST – PerSisters + TBC
SAT 12th SEPTEMBER (2nd Sat) Rory Faithfield + Kate Delaney
SAT 24th OCTOBER – TBC + Deanne Dale & friends
SAT 28th NOVEMBER – Anousha Victoire + Peter Hicks & Maurie Mulheron present When Woody Met Pete