by Dave Johnson | Aug 6, 2025 | Articles
Further to the news about Mark Gregory’s website here is the link to my setting of The Blacksmith’s Song that came from Mark’s research on Trove. The Blacksmith’s Song You are welcome to use it. Acknowledgement would be a courtesy....
by Dave Johnson | Aug 6, 2025 | Articles
As a log-term admirer and supporter of Mark Gregory’s work on Australian folksong, folklore and history of the union movement in Australia I have found his material invaluable. In recent times the digitising of regional newspapers and its accessibility on Trove had...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 6, 2025 | Articles
The Bundanoon DanceFest The DanceFest is a major achievement of Bush Traditions and will be maintained and developed under the newly formed Australian Social Dance and Music Inc (AUSDAM). The new committee has a strong dance focus which is appropriate for this and...
by Dave Johnson | May 10, 2025 | Articles
Since the Committee of Bush Traditions decided to withdraw from running folk community based events’ folk have been asking “What does this mean for us?” Apart from the COVID hiatus the Goulburn Gathering has been held since 2006 as an annual event...
by Loaded Dog Folk Club | Apr 1, 2025 | Articles
photo – Carol Garland, 2004 (photo Sandra Nixon) extract from article published in 2010 in Folk Fed’s previous website. The Dog was founded in 1990 by a small group of folkies – Peter & Jacqui Kerrawn, Yuri, Jo Elliot, Peter Hicks & Gary...
by Loaded Dog Folk Club | Oct 23, 2024 | Articles
image – Bushwhackers at Mudgee, Henry Lawson’s birthplace, Sept 7-8 1956 On Sunday 27th October we will be celebrating with a Special Luncheon and Dance at Petersham Town Hall – bookings essential – In the years after the Second World War...
