by Pam Merrigan | Apr 23, 2022 | Articles, Industry News
Folk Alliance Australia held its AGM at the recent National Folk Festival held over Easter. Some thirty people attended in person and the FAA welcomed three new members Sam De Santi, Erin Heycox and Louise Coomber, adding skills, experience and regional representation...
by Pam Merrigan | Mar 10, 2022 | Articles
Bob Bolton’s collection of photographs is arguably one of, if not the most, extensive pictorial record of the folk scene in Australia. Some years ago Bob gave the negatives to Rob Willis for inclusion in the National Library of Australia collection. Before material...
by Pam Merrigan | Jun 18, 2021 | Articles
16 June 2021 MEDIA RELEASE The Inaugural Australian Folk Music Awards (AFMAs) Folk Alliance Australia today announces the launch of The AFMAs, the Australian Folk Music Awards a new National Awards program for the folk music sector. Full information...
by Pam Merrigan | Mar 15, 2021 | Articles
Article by Gerry Myerson The web has many useful resources for folkies. I’m going to write mainly about one, The Mudcat Cafe, with brief mentions of some others. Of course, I make no pretence of being exhaustive here. The Mudcat Cafe is a music discussion...
by Pam Merrigan | Mar 13, 2021 | Articles
In a fitting tribute to past female lives, Sydney based musicians Rosie McDonald and Cliona Molins have challenged history, giving a contemporary voice to some 9,000 convict women who inhabited Parramatta’s Female Factory, 1821-48, a place of incarceration, hardship...
by Pam Merrigan | Feb 6, 2021 | Articles
In Dec ’19 I sat in Bob’s Bar at Woodford Folk Festival to hear a new trio. Three women with diverse musical backgrounds, multi-instrumentalists and no strangers to the folk scene; Kate Burke, Melanie Horsnell, and Robyn Martin. Together they are The New Graces and,...
