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Convicts and the British colonies in Australia - Australia's Culture PortalIn 1788, the eleven ships of the First Fleet landed their 'cargo' of around 780 British convicts at Botany Bay in New South Wales. From 1788 to 1823, the Colony of New South Wales was officially a penal colony comprised mainly of convicts, marines and th...
The songs and music that has come from people's experiences of living and surviving in the Australian bush has become known in Australia as 'bush music'. The convict songs of the early days of the Australian colonies became the foundation of Australia's ...
In the early days of the Australian colonies, convict ballads and songs became the foundation of Australia's later day folk music and its first original compositions. Bush songs, ballads and music influenced and defined the folk music of the 1950s. Indi...
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Convicts and the British colonies in Australia - Australia's Culture Portal (website Culture and Recreation Portal )In 1788, the eleven ships of the First Fleet landed their 'cargo' of around 780 British convicts at Botany Bay in New South Wales. From 1788 to 1823, the Colony of New South Wales was officially a penal colony comprised mainly of convicts, marines and th...
The songs and music that has come from people's experiences of living and surviving in the Australian bush has become known in Australia as 'bush music'. The convict songs of the early days of the Australian colonies became the foundation of Australia's ...
In the early days of the Australian colonies, convict ballads and songs became the foundation of Australia's later day folk music and its first original compositions. Bush songs, ballads and music influenced and defined the folk music of the 1950s. Indi...
DISCOVERY OF THE SITE OF IPSWICH The mouth of the Bremer River was noticed by John Oxley, Allan Cunningham and Lt Butler, on an exploring trip up the Brisbane River in September 1824. In late 1826 or early 1827, the commandant of the penal settlement at ...
Interview with Jacko Kevans, folk musician [sound recording] / interviewer, Kev Carmody. Jacko Kevans explains the origins of Australian traditional dance music; the influence of early cultures on Australian music; popular dances of the time; people bein...
Interview with Jacko Kevans, folk musician [sound recording] / interviewer, Kev Carmody. Jacko Kevans explains the origins of Australian traditional dance music; the influence of early cultures on Australian music; popular dances of the time; people bein...
New generation folk roots artists such as <a href="http://www.thewaifs.com/" target="_blank">The Waifs</a>, <a href="http://www.johnbutlertrio.com/" target="_blank">John Butler Trio</a>, <a href="http://www.yourgigs.com.au/artist/? The <a href="http://www...
Is folk music a legitimate genre in Australia? Rock, blues, country, Indigenous influences, “world music” and what they play at folk festivals all get together. FOLKaustralia has developed folk links covering folk performers, festivals, clubs...
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In many ways it was my association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, especially radio, that spurred me onto pursuing music and folklore as a profession. Next came a meeting with Harold Hort who encouraged me to develop a radio series based on...
In an old bark hut, in an old bark hut, I'm forced to go on rations in an old bark hut. In an old bark hut, in an old bark hut, And they all adorn the table in the old bark hut. In an old bark hut, in an old bark hut, Or the flies would make it canter rou...
Radio, especially from the early 1940s, relied on 'live' studio music and especially dance music, light classics and what was referred to as 'country and western music'. Some of this country music lent on the old music of the bush but it was predominantl...
WHAT IS AUSTRALIAN FOLK MUSIC IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY? I have never liked the descriptive 'Australian folk' because folk music has connotations that do not sit comfortably with our young country and the types of music that have evolved. If we use th...
In many ways it was my association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, especially radio, that spurred me onto pursuing music and folklore as a profession. Next came a meeting with Harold Hort who encouraged me to develop a radio series based on...
Pioneering Australians had a reputation for hard work and hard play and there are numerous songs, poems and yarns about excessive drining but none can come up to the story of the shearer, Bill Brink, who drank 'acid with never a wink'. BILLY BRINK There o...
Its indigenous people, the Aboriginal tribal clans people, have lived here for thousands of years and can make claim to one of the earth's longest bloodlines. The Aboriginal people possess an intricate traditional mythology based on Creation. European s...
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