Sydney abounds with curious history.
Some stories are known but many others have disappeared over time. Cultural historian and storyteller, Warren Fahey, has created a dozen video stories of Sydney’s past – from its convict history through to its colloquial ‘slanguage’.
The video series has been released on the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) website.
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THE 50th Top Half Folk Festival will take place at Annaburroothe, Northern Territory on 11-14 June 2021. Tickets and commemorative T-shirts are available
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The Palm Creek Folk Festival is approaching – 10 to 13 June, 2021.
Celebrating its 30th anniversary at a new site – Foots Hill Station, Webb Road, Calcium, Queensland.
The line-up includes Vaudeville Smash, Tullara, Salt & Steel, Jesse Morris & The Shakedown, Dan Baker & The Bookmakers and Tessa Devine. Tickets HERE
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Started in 2015, The Adelaide Songs project focuses on the city’s history, people, places and identity.
Begun as a project of HATs Inc (Heritage Arts & Traditions) this group of songwriters and support musicians have written almost forty songs about “the city of churches, pubs and murders”.
Following on from their recent successful Adelaide Town Hall concert for the Adelaide Fringe Festival they now have a CD with eleven of these songs available for purchase at their new website.
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Launceston, Tasmania community station City Park Radio has a new folk music show called The Folk Project. You can tune in Thursdays 8 to 9pm 103.7FM and 96.5FM or stream HERE
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Louisa Wise has an album Launch to showcase her new release ‘All of These Things’
Date Sunday 23rd May 2021, 2pm-5pm, a house concert in Carlton Victoria – address provided once you book tickets here.
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Fans of the Chapel Hill North Carolina folk duo Mandolin Orange will have to readjust to the couple’s new name Watchhouse, announced recently after a career of over a decade.
The duo have been announced to play at Port Fairy Folk Festival 2022.
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Applications for the 2022 National Folk Fellowship program are now open and will close at 12pm, Monday 21 June 2021.
The annual National Folk Fellowship is offered jointly by the National Library of Australia and the National Folk Festival.
The National Library holds the most significant collections of folklore and related material in Australia. This Fellowship offers a unique opportunity for the recipient to discover and explore original collected material at the Library for use in their own artistic work.
The outcome of this residency at the National Library will result in a performance at the 2022 National Folk Festival, and any recordings arising from the project will be acquired for the National Library’s Oral History and Folklore collection.
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Check out Frank Frikker’s new album and award winning video.
The album has been recorded by Frank Frikker’s band ‘Wolf’Tales and produced by Nigel Pegrum/Pegasus Studio (former drummer of The Small Faces, Uriah Heep and Steel Eye Span) using several studio musicians.
The music video of “The Leaf Blower Anthem” was shot for the annual International Short Film Festival in Port Douglas/Daintree and won the award of best music video in 2016, produced by Paul Sinkovic filmmaker/editor.
The song is from the album ‘Yarmouk’. His latest album is 2020’s ‘Anyway’.
Find out more about the songwriter and musician and his latest CD including The Leaf Blower Anthem here: http://geckomusicproductions.com.au
Frank’s music can also be found on most music platforms such as Itunes, Spotify, MySpace, Soundcloud etc.
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Mick Thomas’ Roving Commission have announced a national ‘Out and About’ July tour ahead of the April 30 release of their new album ‘City’s Calling Me’, a warm collection of songs about the inner suburbs of Melbourne.
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