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,...
by Loaded Dog Folk Club | Jan 28, 2021 | Articles
video – Battle of the Somme, lyrics Phyl Lobl, The Battle of the Somme. A project five years in the making. From the first email from a synchronistic Phyl Lobl asking us if we would be willing to record this powerful piece, through to the final realisation now...
by Alex & Julie Bishop | Jan 26, 2021 | Articles
In 1970 the Vietnam war was raging, Simon and Garfunkel were top of the hit parade and blokes were wearing platform shoes and flared trousers. Something much more interesting was happening though. A group of dedicated folkies was organising the first Port Jackson Folk...
by Wayne Richmond | Nov 28, 2020 | Articles
Polly Garland was well-known in the Australian folk music world as an extremely talented multi-instrumentalist, a superb accompanist and music teacher, and a friendly face with a playful sense of fun. She was expert on piano, piano accordion, autoharp and various...
