BUSHWHACKED, BOTHERED & BEWILDERED

Sydney Inner & East

March 20 2026 @ 6:30pm

average ticket $35

Martyn Wyndham-Read and Warren Fahey, legendary performers of bush songs, recitations and yarns, will be touring in March and April 2026. Both singers have been custodians of Australia’s folk song heritage for over sixty years. Their deep swags offer songs and stories that bring history to life from convict days to nowadays. In NSW and Canberra, they will be joined by Marcus Holden on fiddle, mandolin and banjo, and Australia’s accordion wizard, Garry Steel.

Martyn and Warren have previously collaborated on ‘Down The Lawson Track’ (2009), a musical on the songs and stories of Henry Lawson, and ‘I Don’t Go Shearing Now’ (2023), a musical celebration of the golden age of the bush, plus several festival performances. Their unique styles and extensive repertoires complement each other in bringing Australian history to life. Using the songs and stories as ‘signposts’, they successfully take audiences back to the convict era, the settler camps, goldfields, shearing sheds and droving camps where much of the Australian identity was forged.

The 2026 show ‘Bushwhacked, Bothered & Bewildered’ salutes Australia’s wild ride from convict settlement through to the early twentieth century, when we were looking back at our pioneering success and eyeballing the new Australia of city slickers. Favourite old songs merge with newer songs to tell Australian stories, which should never be allowed to disappear.

Feb 2026

28/29 Cobargo Folk Festival

March

NSW DATES
MARCH 2026
20 Kings Cross Hotel. 6.30 FRIDAY 20th – see poster

21 Sydney – Humph Hal. 7pm Allambie Heights

22 Woy Woy Troubadour Folk Club

28 Braidwood National Theatre

29 Carcoar School of Arts

30 de Salis Vineyard/JAM Orange

31 Dalton Public Hall

April

1 April Concert National Library of Australia Theatre