IL L AWA R R A
FOLK CLUB
February 2014 Newsletter
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CONCERT 7 FEBRUARY
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CONCERT 15 FEBRUARY
PETE SEEGER TRIBUTE THE HOLLANDS USA
MAURIE MULHERON
GEORGE MANN USA
CITY DIGGERS WOLLONGONG
CONCERT 14 MARCH
JONATHON BOB LYNN CAN
CITY DIGGERS WOLLONGONG
CONCERT 28 MARCH
PETER ROWAN USA
ELEANOR McEVOY IRE
PAUL HEMPHILL
CURRAGH
CITY DIGGERS WOLLONGONG
CITY DIGGERS WOLLONGONG
This newsletter is the official publication of the Illawarra Folk Club Inc. Folk Club Concerts are
generally held twice a month at locations in the Illawarra area. Folk Club Membership till June
each year is $15 single and $20 family. Members receive a monthly newsletter and discount at
Folk Club concerts. This newsletter is the official publication of the Illawarra Folk Club Inc.
CONCERT 28 FEBRUARY
ALISTAIR BROWN UK
TIA JUANA
CITY DIGGERS WOLLONGONG
26-28 SEPTEMBER
FOLK by the SEA
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30 acts, 5 venues
PO Box 5289, Wollongong
New South Wales, 2500
tel: 1300 887 034
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In this Issue
CONCERT | FRIDAY 7 FEBRUARY
•FOLK CLUB CONCERTS
PETE SEEGER TRIBUTE
•FOLK NOTES & NOTICES
with MAURIE MULHERON,
GEORGE MANN USA, Lotte Latufeku, Denis
McKay, Illawarra Union Singers and friends!
•EVENT CALENDARS
•PERFORMERS LISTING
This could be
your last newsletter
if you haven't
renewed your
membership!
Members $15 | Non-Members $20
Youth (12-16) $5 | Child (U12) free
7.30pm CITY DIGGERS WOLLONGONG
The Illawarra Folk Club is a nonprofit incorporated association
with the objective to present
and encourage folk music and
folklore as it exists in Australia
today, in all its most genuine, and
valuable musical, social, historical,
cultural and pleasurable forms.
•Folk Club Concert Performer
enquiries
Russell Hannah, 02 4297 1777
bookings@
illawarrafolkclub.org.au
•30th Illawarra Folk Festival
at Bulli Showground
15 to 18 January 2015
Artist applications open in
March and close 30 May 2014
Pete Seeger’s death last week will
undoubtedly be the impetus for, not only a
round of Pete Tributes but also an appraisal
of the role of folk song in the politics of
the last 70 years. Well the Illawarra Folk
Club will be first cab of the rank when
we celebrate his life, his song, his music
and his politics at a special tribute next
Friday Night at the City Diggers Club in
Wollongong at 7.30pm.
•Newsletter Contributions
David De Santi
PO Box 17, Albion Park
NSW 2527
mob: 0409 57 1788
[email protected]
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Leading the team will be New York Singer,
George Mann, who is on tour and will
make his Australian Debut (of this tour) at
the Club. George who knew Pete has been
touring the US with Rick Palieri presenting
a concert on the Almanac Singers. Pete
seeger was one of the leading lights in the
Almanacs along with Woody Guthrie, Lee
Hayes, Millard Lamprill and others.
We all know Maurie Mulheron, we see
him on the news often enough in his
role as President of the NSW Teachers
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Federation. Tonight however he is wearing
his musicians hat. Maurie has produced
two definitive musicals about the life of
Pete- ‘How can I keep From Singing’ and
‘One Word We’. Both were staged at the
Illawarra Performing Arts Centre and the
New Theatre. Maurie also travelled to the
US to meet Pete and they had a little Jam
session (Maurie plays Banjo too- the photo
is above). Maurie probably knows as much
about Pete as anyone in Australia and will
be singing the songs and telling the stories.
And there is more. The magnificent voice
of Lotte Latukefu who led the festival
choir and Denis McKay with his Auto harp
will add a bit of Exotica. The Illawarra
Union Singers have been honing their
Pete Seeger skills and will provide songs
and harmonies. And there will be others
including the Mystery Performer who I’m
willing to bet will have a Pete song.
and his work with veterans, unions and
anti-war groups has kept him on the front
lines for 20 years. For ten years, George
toured and recorded with Julius Margolin,
who lived to 93 before passing in 2009,
and in 2008 he directed and produced “A
Union Man: The Life and Work of Julius
Margolin,” a one-hour documentary about
Julius.
ARTICLE ABOUT
PETE SEEGER
•George Mann
And then of course there’s you - the
audiences. Once the songs start you won’t
be able to stop singing, (how can you keep
from singing). When Pete performed, no
matter where, the audience sang along,
and then sang some more- Pete was a
participation person and in his honour
that’s what this concert will be. It could
well be anarchy but everyone is guaranteed
to enjoy themselves - Pete demands it.
Here’s some info on George Mann who
was a hit at both the Illawarra Festivals he
performed at.
A former union organiser and activist
based in New York, George Mann sings
songs from the last century of labor and
social activism, and his own songs are
powerful and funny takes on the state of
the nation. His concerts are part sing-along,
part history lesson, and he can make you
shout for joy, send chills down your spine
or bring tears to your eyes in the same set.
George created and produced the “Hail
to the Thief!” anti-Bush CD series, which
featured such folk legends as Tom Paxton,
Utah Phillips, Billy Bragg and Magpie,
While maintaining a touring schedule of
some 150 gigs each year, he has recently
turned his eyes toward the nation's veterans
and the effects of two long wars on soldiers
and their families. George produced a
compilation CD of songs focusing on posttraumatic stress disorder and the cost of
war to our military families, “Until You
Come Home: Songs for Veterans and Their
Kin” and a solo CD, “Songs for Jules and
Bruce,” in 2010.
We Shall Overcome became the theme
song of the American civil rights movement
in the 1960s. It is most identified with Pete
Seeger, the great American musician who
died January 27.
Yet as Arlo Guthrie put it this week: “Of
course he passed away. But that doesn’t
mean he’s gone."
And Seeger will be with us forever as will
his signature song We Shall Overcome.
Yet that song is not his. He made it famous
but was taught it at the Highlander Folk
School, first by folklorist and activist
Zilphia Horton and then by Civil Rights
Movement frontliner Guy Carawan who
adapted the rhythm of what had been a
traditional gospel song.
As a gospel, the emphasis was on “I will
overcome". When trade unions took it up,
along with the Highlander School and then
Seeger, the stress was placed on “we” and
it was Seeger who turned the “will” into
“shall”.
Seeger always saw himself as part of
a collective struggle against poverty,
oppression and war. Particular ire was
directed at the American empire and
its savage ambitions. Waist Deep in the
Big Muddy is a classic anti-war song of
Seeger’s. I first heard it live in the Sydney
Town Hall in 1968 and it rang so true –
about war in general, about Vietnam in
particular, about President Johnson but,
much more than that, about American
imperialism and its follies and stupidities
and murderous consequences.
Seeger was, however, more famous as
an interpreter than a songwriter. Like
his father Charles, he was steeped in
musicology and helped make famous the
songs of Woody Guthrie, Huddie Ledbetter
and others who might have remained on
the margins.
Thus it was that he and Bruce Springsteen
and Seeger’s grandson Tao sang Guthrie’s
This Land is Your Land at Obama’s first
inauguration and included the two verses
dealing with poverty and private property
that official musical history had forgotten.
This Land is Your Land performed at the
“We Are One” Presidential Inaugural
Concert, January 19, 2009.
Thus it was also that he popularised singer
and activist Malvina Reynolds' wonderful
critique of suburban conformism, Little
Boxes. And herein lies another skein in the
web of Seeger’s life and times.
•Pete Seeger & Maurie Mulheron
Reynolds was a member of the San
Francisco branch of the Communist Party
(CPUSA). Seeger himself had been a
member of both the Young Communist
League and the CPUSA until drifting
away in the 1950s. He remained, a small-c
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communist and I well recall him beginning
a concert in a San Francisco park in 1979
with The Internationale.
Some people, he observed, regard this as
a Communist song and he was happy to
go along with that. Rapturous applause
followed and I could not help thinking
that this was a very special San Franciscan
audience schooled in traditions of American
radicalism that departed dramatically from
orthodox Communism.
Seeger himself might have strayed into
orthodox Communism or Stalinism briefly
but, in essence, remained a free spirit
imbued with the radical independence of
Tom Paine as much as Karl Marx.
Persecuted by McCarthy in the 1950s,
Seeger took to the college circuit. And
these tours, the very first regular campus
folk tours, really began the American folk
revival that became so identified with Bob
Dylan, Joan Baez, Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton
and Peter, Paul and Mary.
All these and others owe Seeger an
enormous debt. As we all do, because
more than any of the younger ones who
followed in his footsteps, he encouraged,
assisted, motivated people to sing. When
he would call, people would respond.
When he sang We Shall Overcome he made
sure it was a collective “we” rather than just
him singing. It is still astounding to hear
the Carnegie Hall audience of 1963 in such
fine voice as he embraced their aspirations
for justice and civil rights.
Four tracks from Pete’s Carnegie Hall
concert on June 8, 1963.
While mainly a brilliant interpreter of
songs, Seeger was also a skilled songwriter.
I still find myself asking students year after
year, whether talking about so-called wars
on terror, drone attacks or remembering the
horrors of Vietnam, “When will we ever
learn, when will we ever learn?“. These
lines are, of course, from Where Have All
the Flowers Gone?, one of the greatest antiwar songs of all time.
And who can forget his splendid adaptation
of Ecclesiastes in Turn, Turn, Turn, a song
made into a folk-rock classic by The Byrds.
So many songs by or associated with Seeger
– Wimoweh, The Hammer Song (If I Had
a Hammer), Kisses Sweeter than Wineor
Guantanamera - are an indelible part of not
only American but international culture.
Seeger performed in Australia twice –
in 1963 and 1968. Footage of the 1963
concerts was discovered not too long ago
and released on DVD, shortly after the
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marvellous documentary on his life The
Power of Songwas made.
His impact in Australia was enormous.
More than anyone, he helped inspire
the 1960s folk revival in Australia and
his songbooks were prominent in every
aspiring folk musician’s collection. One
of these musicians was Maurie Mulheron,
now President of the New South Wales
Teachers Federation.
Maurie was and is not only a keen fan of
Seeger’s but also paid him great tribute in
a musical play about his life first staged
in full at the New Theatre in 1995 – One
Word … We. It was enormously popular
and has had repeat performances at the
New Theatre, folk festivals and elsewhere.
The title – One Word … We – captured
Seeger’s sensibility, his commitment to
collective struggle, his ability to rouse the
spirits of those in the audience and get
them singing like they had never sung
before.
So at the Sydney Town Hall in 1968 and
in San Francisco in 1979 it was not just
Seeger who lifted the roof or moved the
clouds with his powerful voice – we all
did. He helped make us the “we” he was
committed to.
Anthony Ashbolt,
School of Humanities and Social
Inquiry at University of Wollongong
CONCERT | SATURDAY 15 FEBRUARY
THE HOLLANDS USA & Aust
JONATHON BOB LYNN IRE
plus mystery performer
Members $15 | Non-Members $20
Youth (12-16) $5 | Child (U12) free
7.30pm CITY DIGGERS WOLLONGONG
Saturday, February 15th sees another
international concert featuring The
Hollands (Two New Hollanders from
the USA, One old Hollander from New
Holland and an Old Hollander who is also
a Michigander).
Also featured will be Jonathon Bob Lind
from Ireland who is a poet, a storyteller
and a lover of spending his summer in Oz.
There! Now we’ve got the geography and
ethnicity sorted out, here’s a bit about
what you are about to get (And may you
be eternally grateful)
"The Hollands! are seasoned concert
performers, engaging audiences with
their intimate merrymaking. They are
an internationally touring family based
in the US via Australia with a knack
for rousing a sing-a long. They are 21st
century nomadic travelers and frolic in
the organic folk revival scene. By the end
of their performance, audiences will feel
like they are part of the band. This is the
experience and magic that happens when
The Hollands! come to town."
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Jana Holland, is the Old Hollander who is
a Michigander, (No she’s not the feathered
sort) has traveled between 3 continents,
with an interest in songs which she has
transposed into offerings on the Mandolin,
Banjo and Guitar. Jana's deep minor tones
and angelic voice extend solace to all who
listen. She sets the mood and embraces
your mind with her poetic yet ground
level lyrics.
Craig, (The Old Hollander, New Hollander)
is as you’d by now realize a native of
Australia. His music offers the element
of unique sound that pulls the music of
The Hollands in a different direction than
traditional folk. When Craig is playing the
Taylor acoustic, the rhythms are almost
Celtic by nature.
The Two New Hollanders from the USA
are daughter Graciana and son, Banjo
(named after you know who) Graciana is
accomplished on the Ukelele and the Bass
guitar and produces stunning harmonies.
ILLAWARRA FOLK
CLUB STORE
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Selection of CDs, books and T-Shirts.
Festival Compilation CDs - $10
FOLK CLUB COOK BOOK, Vol.
1 and 2 - A wonderful collection of
recipes from all sorts of places and
people! A must for any half cultured
cook. Copies available for $10 each
including postage.
This little darling is stunning and
immediately evokes a desire to hear
more. She is accomplished on the Ukelele
and the Bass guitar. Banjo (the youngest
New Hollander) is a force to reckoned
with on the Cajon’ and other percussion
instruments.
By the end of their performance, audiences
will feel like they are part of the band. This
is the experience and magic that happens
when The Hollands! come to town.
Now about Jonathon
Bob Lynn.
An old mate of the Illawarra Folk Festival
(he’s made the trek out four times to be part
of it) he was born and raised in Kilkenny.
Jonathan's roots are in good shape holding
fond memories of being there in boisterous
bars or intimate kitchens when all are
hushed by the shut-eyed concentration
of some old guy's rendition of 'The Four
Farrellys' or 'Dangerous Dan McGrew'.
delights an audience - The Gift of the Gab!
In celebrating The Spoken Word, Jonathan
is ever mindful of that Irish reverence
for the power and magic of the word.
But magic and myth are not part of his
repertoire so don't expect fairies and
leprechauns. Do expect words with teeth
in 'em and do expect to laugh.
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You wouldn’t want to miss this great
concert at all, at all! All you have to do is
turn up at the door of the Owen Room at
the City Diggers, hand over $15 (if you’re a
member) $20 if not , but it’s worth joining if you like our music and poetry you’ll save
squillions during the year.
Action starts at 7.30pm with the Mystery
Performer.
He has become that old guy and rejoices in
that traditional part of Irish heritage that
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CONCERT | FRIDAY 28 FEBRUARY
THE CORNISH CONNECTION
ALISTAIR BROWN UK
TIA JUANA
plus mystery performer
Members $10 | Non-Members $15
Youth (12-16) $5 | Child (U12) free
7.30pm CITY DIGGERS WOLLONGONG
The Old Cornwellian has returned and
it’s a big welcome back to him from the
Illawarra Folk Club.
I’m referring of course to Alistair Brown
(Yes he does live in Cornwell but can’t
speak Cornish thank goodness). Alistair
will be playing at the Diggers Club on
Friday 28th February, 7.30pm. He does
play accordion but he compensates for this
maleficence by singing funny songs and
telling funny yarns.
He’s going to be supported by our own
local accordion player, Tia Juana, who will
atone for her maleficence by also singing
funny songs and telling yarns.
Anyway for a good chuckle some very fine
music and also a bit of thought provoking
entertainment you’ll only have to pay $15
members and $20 (non).
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Alistair Brown has been singing the old
songs, and new songs written by people
who like the old songs, since he was fifteen
years old. He began his career helping out
in the folk clubs of his native Scotland
during what Utah Phillips called the great
folk scare of the 60s, opening bottles (and
occasionally concerts) for many of the great
names in folk music.
Now, after 30 years in Canada where he
was active in many aspects of folk song
and dance, as a recording artist, radio
broadcaster, columnist, festival director,
dance teacher, university lecturer, and
program director at folk music and dance
camps , he has returned to the UK, to live
in Cornwall, on England's Mediterranean
coast, where he calls dances and performs
regularly in folk clubs, festivals, pub
sessions and several ancient seasonal rituals
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that require the presence of accordions.
Audiences at concerts and festivals across
North America, Australia, New Zealand
and the UK have responded enthusiastically
to his performances, covering the field
from big ballads, comic ditties, songs of
struggles (usually unsuccessful) against
temptation, odes to conviviality and
songs of unashamed sentimentality,
to outrageously funny stories from a
master of the art - all this accompanied by
anglo concertina, button accordion and
harmonica.
Tia Juana is a comic singer/songwriter
with a passion for quirky ballads and
bizarre love-songs. She has performed in
festivals, nationally, and has been a regular
at the Illawarra Folk Festival. As well as
dabbling in some traditional tangos, she
has been known to flirt outrageously with
Nana Mouskouri, pester Fado singers and
come up with some very silly homespun
tunes!
With a swag of original and borrowed
folk tunes, Tia Juana creates an original
blend of enticing vocals, accordion, guitar
and comedy. Joined by the wonderful
Mel Wishart on clarinet (another exCheeky Tzatziki), they will entertain and
mesmerize.
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BOOKING
accommodation?
Do you use the on-line booking systems
Wotif.Com or Booking.Com for local,
national and international accommodation,
travel etc?
If so you can now help out the Illawarra
Folk Festival by using the following links.
By simply using these links to get to the
booking systems, the festival will receive a
commission for any sales generated through
these links.
So next time you're planning a trip
anywhere in the world or to the festival,
please consider using these links and you'll
be helping out the festival!
WOTIF.COM
To use Wotif.com, type the following into
your browser and proceed from there:
http://www.wotif.
com?bid=11&aid=CD10185
Illawarra Folk Club
Online Store CDs, Books
The Club operates an online store for Club
members to sell products. A number of new
products have been added:
FOLK REPUBLIC of BULLI - 2011 Illawarra
Folk Festival compilation with 20 artists Eric Bogle, Ami Williamson , Riogh, Ted
Egan, Orange Blossom, Neil Murray, Rough
Red, The Handsome Young Strangers,
Roger Montgomery, Tracey Bunn, Replay,
Junior, No Such Thing, Martin Pearson,
Wongawilli, A.J. Leonard, The Pigs, George
Mann, The Good Ship, Zumpa
4. You need to advise Dsvid De Santi (info@
illawarrafolklcub.org.au) that this has been
done with an email confirmation. This
should also be emailed to the buyer to let
them know it's coming. Remember you
are also acting on behalf of the Illawarra
Folk Club.
5. You will be paid the sale value plus the
standard postage and packaging (usually
$4 or so - depends on the quantity and
weight of the product) by direct deposit
less the $3 commission. This would usually
happen once a month - depending on the
frequency of sales.
TUNES of JOHN McKINNON -A collection
of Australian dance tunes, by Alan
Musgrove and David De Santi, $20.
6. You need to provide Account Name, BSB,
Account Number
SILVER FOLK - 2010 Illawarra Folk Festival
compilation CD, $25
o Advise the sale price for CD / product
(most CDs are $20/25/30)
ALAN MUSGROVE - Behind the Times,
The Bagman's Gazette, Songs They Used
to Sing, Australian Old Time Fiddle, $25
o Weight of the product (standard CDs
are 120 grams)
JOHN BROOMHALL - Free as the Breeze,
Broken Hill Miner, Driftin Down the
Darling, In The Days When the Anzacs
Were New , My Spirit Country $25
BOOKING .COM
soon as possible. Hopefully within 1 day of
receiving the order..
What you need to do
o Digital image of the CD cover as a JPG
I VIAGGIATORI - Suitcase Serenata, music
from the film Dall' Italia All' Australia, $25
To use Booking.com, type the following
into your browser and proceed from there:
How do you sell your
CDs here?
http://www.booking.com/
index.html?aid=351969
1. You need to be a financial member of the
Illawarra Folk Club
2. There is a minimum commission of $3.
Part of this pays for the credit card charge
and the transaction cost and admin website.
3. You are forwarded the online orders you
arrange for the postage and packaging as
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The Illawarra
Folk Club
presents a
folk music
programme every
Saturday from
3pm to 5pm
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FOLK NOTES
Due to logistical reasons (we are buggered)
we haven’t got an appraisal of the Festival
yet but we’ve had fantastic feedback. We
are saving it up for the March Edition. If
you have anything to say about it then
send it to us. Feedback either way is always
welcome. You can do an online survey from
here: http://illawarrafolkfestival.com.au/
festival-survey-2014
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Away with gloom and misery, deaths
and Tony Abbott and street violence and
Christopher Pyne. Here’s some good
and bad news about our publicist Nick
Hartgerink and his good lady wife, Jane.
The bad news was that they couldn’t make
the festival this year. The good news is that
the reason is that Penny, their daughter,
off and got married on the weekend of
the festival. Penny of course is a regular
performer at our festivals and packed them
in at both Folk by the Sea and last year’s
Bulli. The lucky bloke is John Eastlake and
his father-in-law thinks he’s a great blokeso how good a start is that. And from all of
us - best wishes to the newlyweds.
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Of course we all know about ‘Goodies’ and
‘Baddies’ remember Cowboys (goodies)
and Indians (Baddies) - I saw too much
Tom Mix and Kit Carson. Of course I now
know who the Goodies are - they are the
tripe eaters - naturally it’s not hard to work
out who the baddies are.
Anyway a bit of news on the old
Rapscallion – he’s had a little bit of a bout
of hospitalisation but is on the improve.
He’s had another birthday and reckons he’s
Australian of the year because his birthday
is on Australia day.
The other thing that has happened is
that the ABC has closed the unit down in
Melbourne that recorded his poems and
sent them to 44 ABC stations around the
Country. He can still be heard however on
two stations in the Central West at Orange
and Dubbo and of course on our own
VoxFM. Given his predilection for taking
the Mickey out of politicians, I reckon
Tony Abbotts extraordinary attack on the
ABC may have been prompted by the Old
Rapscallions Poems.
GOODIES AND BADDIES
It’s very complicated, this
labelling description,
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Of personal behaviour. This
slogan based depiction
Of what human beings are. How
should they be perceived?
Do they act according to a label preconceived?
Kind or cruel, nice or nasty,
benevolent or mean,
I’m sure we all know those who
fit that descriptive scene,
Introverted, extroverted. So
many. Now the fad is …
Reduce to just two categories …
the goodies and the baddies.
Our esteemed Prime Minister
must have been impressed
By Edward Wallis Hoch, who
years ago expressed …
"There's so much good in the worst of
us, and so much bad in the best of us,
That it hardly behooves any of us,
to talk about the rest of us." …
That he paraphrased, (for modern
times), his now quite famous quote
About the baddies and the goodies,
and we should all take note.
Asylum Seekers, they’re the ‘baddies’,
that’s a well-known fact,
And the Navy are the ‘goodies’
who send the ‘baddies’ back.
Those who might be ‘baddies’
(to fit with this criteria)
Could be climate change supporters,
accused of mass hysteria.
The bikies rate a mention, as does
the construction industry,
Even politicians, from such
labelling, aren’t free.
And what about the media, who
report upon the scene,
One would stretch the boundaries
to judge them squeaky clean.
I asked my next door neighbour
for advice, and his decree …
“Obviously they’re ‘baddies’ if
they don’t agree with me.”
There’s food for thought in that reply,
though it makes the blood run colder.
Could the definition be in the
eye of the beholder?
It’s an issue that must be resolved.
How? Well, here’s a clue,
This Government is famous for calling a review.
‘The goodies’ or ‘the baddies’. There
must be common ground.
Where learned experts, good and
bad, are likely to be found.
Interests may conflict, that’s
true, an ever present risk,
Arguments, pro and con, would
certainly be brisk,
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But would the matter be resolved?
With everything explored,
I’d forecast the findings … back
to the drawing board.
If Edward Wallis Hoch was
right, all those years ago,
There’s good and bad in everyone,
although it might not show,
So any thoughts of a review
would be a waste of time …
The status quo holds sway, and I
need not have penned this rhyme.
BLUE - the shearer (copyright Col Wilson)
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Yvonne O’Grady (accordion Player) and
mine hostess at the Monday Night, No
Such thing, sessions at Kiama sent me
this little note.
“Heard on early morning radio news
yesterday that there had been a break in
at Surrey Hills and the resident there was
bashed with his own acoustic guitar. My
question is, could it have been yet another
of these interminable, self obsessed so
called singer/songwriters, and could the
same result be managed with an auto
harp.?” I did offer ‘Blown Away’ Denis
McKay right of reply (he’s an incorrigible
auto harp player) but he treated it with
contempt though I thought I heard him
mutter that if it was an accordion it would
have resulted in Death and he was going
to start a petition to have mandatory
sentencing for ‘Death By Accordion’.
By the way- I have heard there is to be a
singer/songwriters convention to be held
outside Yvonne’s Kiama home.
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Choirs are definitely making a big
comeback- they’re all most as popular
as massed ukulele bands. Stewart Davis
from the Wollongong community choir
‘Sigongo’ writes to say that about 40
people now sing together every Tuesday
night, and the choir has performed
many, many times in 2013, including
the Illawarra Folk Festival. Highlight
for the year was performing Bohemian
Rhapsody with 100 other singers. Janet
Andrews, the musical director, has taken
a group of 40 people who barely knew
each other until recently and turned them
into a singing powerhouse.Janet says the
community choir is the most fun, and
the most fulfilling thing she's ever done.
Members regularly comment that it's the
highlight of their week. The choir is open
to anyone who loves singing. It meets
on Tuesday nights, starting February
4th, 2014. For more information please
contact Stuart Davis 0403 869 405
[email protected]
or
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Apparently there is a new discovery of
the origin of ‘Click go the Shears’ which
dates it back to the shearers strikes of
the 1890s. If you go to the site below you
can see it being sung by two of the folk
club’s favourites (and former organising
committee of the festival members) Chloe
and Jason Roweth. While on the subject of
Jason and Chloe- did yoiu catch 5 year old
Megan Roweth belting out John Dengates
‘Big Ben Pie’ at both the tripe night and the
Dengate Memorial.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-0131/unearthed-lyrics-reveal-early-versionof-click-go-the-shears/5230018
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How about a train trip to assist one of our
festival charities APHEDA Sunday 23rd
February 2014:– Historic train trip to Moss
Vale via Summit Tank and Robertson
APHEDA South Coast is hiring its own
special carriage on the Cockatoo Train.
The route takes in the magnificent scenery
of coastal Illawarra before climbing the
Illawarra Range to Robertson and Moss
Vale. As it climbs the train passes through
glorious pristine forest and heath lands.
There’ll be a special stop at a lookout, a
short walk from the train at Summit Tank
then we continue to Ranelagh, Robertson
or Moss Vale. The choice is yours! Ranelagh
– alight here at this tiny station for lunch at
Fountaindale Grand Manor – bookings for
lunch 02 4885 1111 Robertson – enjoy lunch
at the local club, pub, café or take your own
picnic and perhaps walk to the rainforest
reserve on the outskirts of town. Or you can
carry on to Moss Vale before returning. I
wish I could go (I’ve done it many times)
but I’ll be in NZ at the Art Deco Festival
listening to massed ukuleles.
For full details and Bookings contact John
Tuckerman: 42 686581 or email: john@
tuckerman.id.au.
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Sad to report the death of Bob Ballantine.
Bob was well known to all those sessioners
at the National Folk Festival. He came from
Newcastle UK and played a whistle very
well and led many a session in the Session
Bar at the National. Bob was in his 80s.
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Check out the John Dengate collection
online link to tributes, articles, interviews
and songs plus videos from the wake and
memorial concerts
http://johndengatecollection.wordpress.
com/ If you have anything you would like
to add to the site please contact Leyne on
[email protected]
Regular poet at our festivals is Greg North.
Greg cleaned up at Tamworth when he
won ‘Album’ (poetry) of the year and best
recorded Poem of the year with his verse
Frackin Fricker about the dangers of oil
shale. David Campbell who performed
at our poets breakfasts at the Festival also
won Poetry Book of the year and Poem
of the year. You can find out more on the
Australian Bush Lauriettes award website.
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Our Youth Traditions Awards (organised
by Ann Lehmann) at the Festival were
hugely successful. Here’s a list of categories
and winners.
Winners shared in $500 worth of Haworths
music vouchers, $300 cash prizes donated
by Dr Judy Stubbs and Associates &
Multicultural Communities Council of
the Illawarra, and received Illawarra Folk
Festival CDs. Winners will also get further
performing opportunities.
The winners are:
1.
Best Performance of a traditional
Australian folk song
The Raglins (Melbourne)
Runner up : The Littlest Fox (WA)
2. Best Performance of a traditional folk
song from another culture
Michelle Mutyora (Wiley Park)
Runner up: Lucy Sugerman (Canberra)
3. Best Performance of a traditional folk
tune (or set of tunes)
Sam De Santi & Miles Rooney ( Illawarra)
Runner up: Rosie & Paddy
Kelly (Austinmer)
4. Best Performance of an original song
following a folk tradition
Shalani Thomas (Bulli)
Runner up: Tim Lukey (Melbourne)
5. Best Performance of an original tune
(or set of tunes) following a folk style
Miles & Marley Rooney (Gwynville)
Encouragement awards:
Harry O'Brien (Kiama) & Brendon Lucas
(Bradbury)
Youth traditions finalists: Tommy Polden,
Nyssa & Alex, Sigrid Helland, Rebecca
Basteli & Suzi & Sophia Simoes Da Silva.
Cheers! Russell Hannah, bigruss43@
bigpond.com, 02) 4297 1777
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Performers List
Service for Illawarra Folk Club members.
Area Code is 02 uno
•Alan Blackshaw singer/songwriter
. 0244218848 alan@alanblackshaw.
net. www.alanblackshaw.net
•Ann Lehmann - singer, guitarist,
mandolin, bouzouki, children's
performer [email protected]
•Barry (Blue) Lake - Bonza Bush Poet/
Yarn Spinner/MC Phone 02 4476 4124
•Blue the Shearer , aka Col Wilson poet, raconteur, prawn deveiner, ABC
radio star 02 4751 5998, (Springwood),
[email protected]
•Bob McInnes, Stringfiddle - Larrikin
fiddler, Australian Scottish music
band 02 4885 1191 (Robertson),
[email protected]
•Chris Wilson - singer/
guitarist 02 4271 4364
•Dave Oliphant - singer/guitarist,
dance caller, entertainer, contact for
FIDDLEDANCE Bushband 0419
218926 [email protected]
•David De Santi - piano accordion,
Wongawilli, Zumpa, I Viaggiatoir,
The Con Artists 0409 57 1788
[email protected]
•Duncan Chalmers - traditional
singer/guitarist 0418 440 032,
[email protected]
•Graeme Johnson - performance
poet, Australia rhyming
verse 02 9874 7653 (Sydney),
[email protected]
•John Broomhall - Australian
traditional, singer -songwriter
[email protected]
•Johnny Spillane - whistle, dance
caller, bagpipes 02 4296 9693, john.
[email protected]
•Karen Lynne - singer/songwriter,
traditional, original, country, contact
for Acoustic Shock 02 4757 3292
(Katoomba), [email protected]
•Kenny Bartley - comedic, Aussie,
storytelling singer/songwriter 0431 041
947 [email protected]
•Kevin Baker - singer/songwriter 02
4225 8684 [email protected]
•Mark Holder-Keeping - multiinstrumentalist, clarinet / saxophone,
member of Zumpa, I Viaggiatori
Markelle 02 4228 4153, 0405 271
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demonstration dancers, David De Santi
02 0409 57 1788 [email protected]
www.wongawillicolonialdance.org.au
•Margaret Bradford - folk singersongwriter, for children also
02 9520 6180 (Sutherland),
[email protected]
•Zorba's Kefi Band - Greek music
& music from the Greek islands, 2
or 3 piece. Simon Kinnas 0412 757
557 [email protected]
•Perla Aura - African dance,
drum musician and teacher, 02
4274 5658, 0414 641 285. pfefey@
wollongong.nsw.gov.au
•Zumpa - old Italian tunes with
new life. David De Santi 02 0409
57 1788 [email protected]
ww.myspace.com/zumpafolk
•Simon Kinnas - Greek Bouzouki,
Greek folk music and music from
the Greek islands. 0412 757 557
[email protected]
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•Stewart Holt - singer songwriter 0411
842 811 [email protected]
Classifieds for Illawarra Folk Club
Members and Supporters
•Vince Brophy - Irish Australian Singer
Songwriter, www.vincebrophy.
com [email protected]
POSITION VACANT
GROUPS
Bulli PCYC is seeking interest from music
teachers for the establishment of a music
program. The program seeks to provide
affordable music tuition to local youth.
Please contact Matt at Bulli PCYC on (02)
42843878
•Az-I-Am - folk, Australian,
Chris Wilson 02 4271 4364
•Chord-eaux - Australian traditional
songs, Neil Rowsell, 0437 305 723,
[email protected]
VIOLIN & GUITARMAKER
•Denizen - traditional, contemporary
Celtic Australian music, Johnny
Spillane 02 4296 9693, john.
[email protected]
Roland Stefen - quality hand-made
instruments and repairs done to stringed
instruments. Ph: 0242713238. www.
rolandstefenviolinmaker.com www.
rolandstefenviolinmaker.com
•Fiddledance - traditional, bush band,
bluegrass Dave Oliphant 0419 218
926 [email protected]
Wed Feb 12th - Bush Dance, music by No
Such Thing
Wed Feb 19th - Bush Dance, regular band
Wed Feb 26th - Folk Dance with calling by
Alistair Brown (UK)
Wed Mar 5th - St David's Day Welsh Folk
Dance
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•Riogh - traditional, contemporary
Celtic Australian music, Johnny
Spillane 02 4296 9693, john.
[email protected]
•South of the Big Smoke – Northern
Illawarra trio styles including folk /
folktonica, blues, pop and soft rock.
Phil 0408 259 633 southofthebigsmoke@
gmail.com . www.myspace.
com/southofthebigsmoke
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Wed Feb 5th - Klezmer Hopkele with the
London Klezmer Quartet
Wollongong Music Centre, sales, repairs,
all types of instruments, long standing
supporter of the Folk Club, ph 4228 9286,
390 Crown St, Wollongong
•No Such Thing - Australian
traditional dance music, Yvonne
O'Grady [email protected]
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Wongawilli Colonial
Dance Club Events
Haworth Shellharbour Music Centre, new
store sales, repairs, 2/22 Durgadin Dr,
Albion Park Rail ph: (02) 4256 0088
•My Secret Window - Acoustic
duo Stephen McClure 02 4228
3764 [email protected]
•Wongawilli & Wongawilli Colonial
Dancers Award winning well
travelled Australian folk, bush music,
Save trees, get it earlier and in
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[email protected].
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the information to download
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LOCAL MUSIC CENTRES
•Handsome Young Strangers - lively
bush rock band with attitude.
0409 590 932, looch1973@yahoo.
com.au www.myspace,com/
thehandsomeyoungstrangers
•The Con Artists, Wollongong
Conservatorium's all ages world
music band. David De Santi 0409
57 1788 [email protected]
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