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Pete Seeger (1919 - 2014) folk music dance festivals reviews profiles diary dates sessions opportunities Advertising sizes Size mm Members Not Mem FEBRUARY 2014 Full page 210 x 297 $80 $120 Folk Federation of New South Wales Inc 1/2 page 210 x 146 $40 $70 In this issue Post Office Box A182 or Dates for your diary p4 Sydney South NSW 1235 102 x 146 Festivals and Other events p6 ISSN 0818 7339 ABN9411575922 1/4 page 102 x 146 $25 $50 Letter to the editor p8 Folk News p8 jam.org.au 1/8 page 102 x 70 $15 $35 Pete Seeger dies p9 Advertising artwork required by 5th Beez benefit Bundanoon p9 The Folk Federation of NSW Inc, of each month. Advertisements can formed in 1970, is a Statewide body Folk Contacts p10 be produced by Cornstalk if required. Dance News p14 which aims to present, support, encour- Please contact the editor for enquiries age and collect folk music, folk dance, about advertising (02) 6493 6758 If your event misses Cornstalk, Julie folklore and folk activities as they Bishop 02 9524 0247, julie@folkfedn- exist in Australia in all their forms. It All cheques for advertisements and sw.org.au can include it in Folkmail, provides a link for people interested inserts to be made payable to the Folk the weekly email to members. And in the folk arts through its affiliations Federation of NSW Inc don’t forget that as a member you can with folk clubs throughout NSW and its Cornstalk Editor - Coral Vorbach put information on jam.org.au, where counterparts in other States. It bridges helpful tutorials will guide you. all styles and interests to present the PO Box 5195. Cobargo NSW 2550 folk arts to the widest possible audi- 6493 6758 [email protected] ence. Cornstalk is the official publication of Deadline for MARCH 2014 the Folk Fed. of NSW. Contributions, 12th February 2014 Committee news, reviews, poems, photos welcome! President: Pam Davis 9955 3677 Photographs - high resolution JPG or [email protected] TIFF files. 300 dpi images cropped at Vice President: Anthony Woolcott correct size. Secretary: Dallas Baxter. secretary@ We use Adobe InDesign, Photoshop 6, folkfednsw.org.au Microsoft Word. PLEASE do not send Treasurer: Bruce Cameron 6331 1129 photographs as part of a Word doc. [email protected] No part of Cornstalk may be reproduced Committee: James Baxter, Sandra without permission of the publishers. Nixon, Margaret Walters. All care but no responsibility taken for omissions or errors. Festival favourites Chaika are performing Membership/Listser/JAM: at Sutherland Acoustic on Thursday 13th Wayne Richmond 9939 8802 Wrap Co-ordinators Dallas and James February. Tradies Club, Kingsway, Gymea [email protected] Baxter 9810 4131 (short walk from station). 7.30pm. [email protected] The Folk Federation of NSW - Membership Application Form Name/s: Eve phone: Day phone: Address: Mobile: Email:

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2 - The CORNSTALK Gazette FEBRUARY 2014 From The President Happy New Year to all Folk Fed members and friends! Elsewhere in this issue of Cornstalk we feature a letter from Aart Bark, one of our senior members. Aart makes some interest- ing observations about participation in folk music activities and challenges us all to give this some thought. I would like to thank Aart for taking the time to address his concerns and to extend the challenge to all members … what do you think about the current folk scene? And, in particular, what do you see as the role of the Folk Federation? If we are to remain relevant to a new generation of folk musicians and audiences, we must ensure that we are meeting the needs of the folk community. But first we must identify just what those needs might be. If you have a pet peeve, a casual observation or possibly an astounding insight, please share it for the benefit of us all. If writing is not your thing, I’m sure any member of the committee would be glad to hear from you and will bring your comments to a future committee meeting. While we consider what the Folk Fed should be doing, it is timely to consider the achievements of the past few years… in particular the establishment of the regular MoFo (Modern Folkie) concerts at the Gaelic Club featuring the next generation of folk musicians, with the guidance of past President Anthony Woolcott and support from the Folk Fed committee. The MoFo crew provides the enthusiasm and ideas; the hoary heads from the FF committee provide experience & advice (and a little seed funding). The result is an outstanding example of collaboration. Long may it continue. Another area in which the Folk Fed is providing support to our members is by acting as the auspicing body for grant applications. If your group is not incorporated, we may be able to assist you in meeting the requirements of the grant application. If you are successful, we can receive grant funds on your behalf from the funding body and transfer them to you without charge. As the process of applying for grant funding becomes increasingly competitive and complex, this can mean the difference between success and failure in obtaining a grant for a folk music project. If you have a project in mind that we may be able to assist with, please get in touch. I joined the Folk Fed committee as Secretary some 8 years ago at the invitation of Chris Wheeler, shortly after the demise of the Sydney A Cappella Association (SAA) of which I was then President. The SAA was formed to encourage development of an a cappella community in Sydney, and had been so spectacularly successful that it had largely outlived its purpose. Choirs were everywhere … and today, nearly 10 years later, there are even more choirs and singers and music tours and workshops and concerts. Since joining the Folk Fed, I have been blown away by the diversity of folk music in all its forms, of which I insist that a cappella singing is yet another. If – as one definition maintains - "folk music is what the people sing" then I’m a folk singer, dammit. I look forward to serving as your President and to hearing how we can serve you better in your corner of the wide world of folk music. Pam Davis

The Hollands! (US)

The Hollands! are a full-time internationally touring family based in the US with a knack for engaging audiences and rousing a sing-a long. They are 21st century nomadic travelers and frolic in the organic folk revival scene. They are appearing this month at Humph Hall, Allambie Heights, on Friday 14th and Illawarra Folk Club on Saturday 15th.

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a vibrant new sound through intricate advised: Wayne 9939 8802, wayne@ Metropolitan melodic use of fiddle, Spanish pipes humphhall.org. humphhall.org (gaita), mandolin, bouzouki, flute, Saturday 1st whistle, tenor banjo, bombarde, mandola Central Coast Bush Dance, with  The Shack. Chris Wheeler and bodhran, interwoven with rich Sydney Coves. All dances taught. East (christinewheeler.net.au). Her passion harmonic rhythm & driving percussion. Gosford Progress Hall, cnr Henry Parry for music as vehicle for social cohesion 19 Marrickville Rd, Marrickville. Drive & Wells St. 7.30-11.30pm. $18, led her to traditional music of various 7.30pm (doors 6.30). $25+bf. $12. Supper provided. Robyn 4344 6484 cultures over 30 years ago. Lead singer Bookings, stickytickets.com.au/14955 Sunday 9th in Aust-Celtic band Wheelers and Engadine House Concert. George Dealers; Irish flute, whistle, recorder, Tuesday 4th Mann (USA). Powerful, witty songs guitar. ‘Rain in the Mountains’ comes Sydney Playford Dance Group resumes. of labour and social activism. George from years of helping celebrate Chris Old English dances. Hut 44 (Bush Music created & produced the ‘Hail to the Kempster’s music, and Henry Lawson’s Club), Addison Rd Com Centre, 142 Thief!’ anti-Bush CD series, featuring lyrical output. + Lily Fisher (19) Addison Rd, Marrickville. 7.30-9.30pm. Tom Paxton, Utah Phillips, Billy Bragg, facebook.com/lilyfishermusic. After $5, studs $3. Julie or Alex 9524 0247. Magpie, etc. His work with veterans, teenage years writing her folk-pop facebook.com/sydneyplayford unions and anti-war groups has kept songs, she recorded her raw, diverse Wednesday 5th him on the front lines for 20 years. + numbers. With supportive Sydney Klezmer Keili with London Rik Palieri (USA), songwriter, multi- following, performs in Songwriters Klezmer Quartet. Wongawilli Hall, instrumentalist on banjo, blues guitar, Collective, Songwriters Live, etc. Voice wongawillicolonialdance.org.au. 8pm. mouth bow, Native American flute. reminiscent of Sarah McLachlan, style $3, kids free, includes light supper. Wild and woolly story-teller, yodeller; inspired by Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell; Dances taught. David De Santi, info@ widely recorded; big name on US music expressive lyricism; velvety, soaring wongawillicolonialdance.org.au scene. 2pm. $20, $15. Yummy home- melodies. Tramshed Com. Arts Centre, made afternoon tea. Margaret 9520 1395a Pittwater Rd, Narrabeen (betw. Thursday 6th 6180. 0403 936 785, mjbradford@ car park & Ambulance). 7.30-11pm. London Klezmer Quartet (UK). optusnet.com.au Free tea, coffee. BYO drinks, nibbles. Petersham Bowling Club, 77 Brighton $20. 0413 635 856. shackfolk.com St, Petersham. 8pm. $25, $20. All tickets Wednesday 12th at the door. 9569 4639 Django Bar. Ann Vriend, annvriend. Beecroft Bush Dance with Ryebuck com, Canadian soul songstress. Hilarious Bush Band, caller Margaret Bolliger. Friday 7th tales of the road, dynamic songs, All dances called. Beecroft Com Centre, Illawarra Folk Club. George Mann combining her poetic, often double- Beecroft Rd (opp. Fire Station). 7.30- (USA) georgemann.org - former union entendre lyrics with classic soul piano 11.30pm. $19, $17, $14, incl. supper. organiser and activist based in New in the style of Ray Charles & Aretha Sigrid 9980 7077, Wilma 9489 5594, York. His concerts are part sing-along, Franklin. Camelot Lounge, 19 Marrickville Peter 9477 5848. bushmusic.org.au part history lesson, and he can make you shout for joy, send chills down your Rd, Marrickville. 7pm. $17.70. Bookings, Sunday 2nd spine or bring tears to your eyes in the stickytickets.com.au/14734 Kim Sanders Memorial Picnic same set. For ten years, George toured Thursday 13th and Concert. Kim Sanders, multi- and recorded with Julius Margolin (who Shanty Session. On board the instrumentalist ‘world music’ master, lived to 93 before passing in 2009), and wonderfully restored 136-year-old died on 26 November of liver failure in 2008 he directed and produced ‘A tallship ‘James Craig’. NO alcohol and associated complications. This is Union Man: The Life & Work of Julius to be consumed on board. Wharf 7, an event to remember him, and play Margolin’, a 1hr doco about Julius and Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour. some music together. Bring food to his life as a labour and anti-war activist From city, walk over Pyrmont Bridge, share, an instrument and some memories and singer. City Diggers Wollongong, turn right into Murray St, go past big of Kim. Addison Road Community cnr Burelli St & Church St. 7.30- white National Maritime Museum; Centre, 142 Addison Rd, Marrickville 10.30pm. Tickets at illawarrafolkclub. James Craig straight ahead. Closest (parking available in the centre) - org.au or ring 1300 887 034 public transport, Pyrmont Bay Light on the Green and in Gumbramorra Rail station. 8pm (opens 7.30). $7. Hall. 4-9pm. Kim’s web page www. Saturday 8th Mike 0419 992 119, 9476 3861 (call for kimsandersworldmusic.com and email George Mann - songs from the last parking directions), jamescraigshanty@ ([email protected]) will continue century of labour and social activism in gmail.com, Margaret 0427 958 788 in the interim. - Linda D. the USA. His own songs are powerful and funny takes on the state of the Sutherland Acoustic. Chaika, Camelot Lounge. Señor Cabrales. nation. He has shared stages with Pete chaikaband.com, festival favourites. Traditional Celtic music, from Spain's Seeger, Utah Phillips and Faith Petric, Emily-Rose Sarkova, Laura Bishop, northwest tip to the outer Isles of among others, and his compilations Susie Bishop, Phillippa Murphy-Haste, Scotland. Fresh, exciting music from have featured such folk legends as Tom Johan Delin, Rendra Freestone. They Europe’s Celtic edge, incl. Asturias, Paxton, Utah Phillips, Billy Bragg and play, they sing! Eclectic and beautiful, Galicia, Brittany. The 7 accomplished Holly Near. Humph Hall, 85 Allambie traditional Balkan and European Australian & Spanish musicians bring Rd, Allambie Heights. 7pm. Bookings music, original music tinged with jazz

4 - The CORNSTALK Gazette FEBRUARY 2014 and celtic. Expressive and intricate Neighbourhood Centre, 79 Johnston St. Friday 7th instrumentals, haunting vocal solos and 8pm (doors 7.40).$20/18, BYO, supper Christine Wheeler exquisite 4 part female vocal harmonies available. Sandra (02) 9358 4886, www. (christinewheeler.net.au) and Friends in a wide range of languages. + George theloadeddog.org.au - Simon Watts (fiddle, bodhran), Mann (USA). Powerful, witty songs of Sunday 16th Leigh Birkett (guitar, bouzouki), labour and social activism. He's a big House concert on the waterfront at Michael Vidale (upright bass). Poetry name on the US music scene. Tradies Woy Woy - with George Mann in Song: Bob Dylan, Nanci Griffith, Club, Kingsway, Gymea (short walk returning from the USA. ‘Take a trip Henry Lawson, Nikis Theodorakis, from station). 7.30pm. $15, $10. Floor down the Almanac Trail and recre- Victor Jara, anonymous. + Songwriter spots, raffle. Jenny 9576 2301 ate the famous 1941 Almanac Singers Ben Scott & poet Pat Cavanagh. Kindle Hill Performance Space, 8 Friday 14th 4-8.30pm. $15 for meal and concert. Lake St, Wentworth Falls. 7.30pm. The Hollands! (US). The BYO drinks. Bookings essential: Ina $27, $22, family $60, group (6+) Hollands! are a full-time internationally 4342 6716 or Marilyn 4341 4060. $23 each, under-18 $10. Tickets, touring family based in the US with Sunday 16th musichunterprojects.com. a knack for engaging audiences and Australian Contras. Dance workshop rousing a sing-a long. They are 21st with caller Keith Wood, and live music century nomadic travelers and frolic from Pastrami on Ryebuck. Main Hall, in the organic folk revival scene. Pennant Hills Community Centre, 70 Humph Hall, 85 Allambie Rd, Allambie Yarrara Rd, Pennant Hills. 2-5pm. $5. Heights. 7pm. Bookings advised: Keith 0420 913 934 Wayne 9939 8802, wayne@humphhall. Friday 28th org. humphhall.org Illawarra Folk Club. Alistair Friday 14th Brown (Scotland) has been singing the Bush Music Club. Duke's Place - old songs, & new songs written by peo- Concert and session of Australian songs ple who like the old songs, since he was 15. Big ballads, comic ditties, songs of with Ralph Pride. Tritton Hall, Hut 44 struggles against temptation, odes to London Klezmer Quartet (UK). St Addison Road Centre, 142 Addison conviviality and songs of unashamed Augustine’s Old Chapel (Lovat Rd, Marrickville. 7.30pm till late. $10, sentimentality, outrageously funny Chapel), Meehan St, Yass. A brilliant bring a contribution for supper. Sandra stories - accompanied by anglo concer- new concert space! 7.30pm. $25. 9358 4886 tina, button accordion and harmonica. Tickets at door, but best to book, He has called dances and has played Toongabbie Music Club. Theme: trybooking.com in numerous dance bands. He has run Friday 14th ‘Love’ ... it being Valentines Day! And, courses on folk music in university and The Beez (Germany). Musical bric-a- of course , it is what makes the world summer music camps. City Diggers go round. So, bring your heart to the Wollongong, cnr Burelli St & Church brac from around the world - a party. Scout Hall, 17 Whitehaven Rd, St. 7.30-10.30pm. Tickets at illawarra- potpourri of moving, silly, deep and Northmead. 7.30pm. $7, to cover rent, folkclub.org.au or ring 1300 887 034 sometimes meaningless popular songs. insurance and supper. Allen 9639 7494 Dungeon, Adamstown Arts Building, 228 Brunker Rd, Adamstown. 7.30 pm. Saturday 15th Regional and ACT (02) 4957 1887 Illawarra Folk Club. The Saturday 1st Saturday 15th Hollands! (USA). Seasoned concert Alesa Lajana. A descendant of Span- St Valentines (Baroque) Ball. Fun and performers, engaging audiences and ish Gypsies, award winning songwriter, romantic dances from the time of rousing singalong with their intimate banjoist, guitarist. + Matthew and Playford and Louis XIV through to merrymaking. A 21st century nomadic Kathy Clarke, original songs, unique Georgian era. All Saint’s Church, cnr family based in the US via Australia harmonies, delightful! Newcastle & Bonney & Cowper Sts, Ainslie, ACT. and frolic in the Americana, folk revival Hunter Valley Folk Club, Wesley Centre 7-11pm. [email protected], scene. City Diggers Wollongong, cnr Hall, 150 Beaumont St, Hamilton (opp. earthlydelights.com.au/dance-events/ Burelli St & Church St. 7.30-10.30pm. The Exchange Hotel). 7.30pm. $15, upcoming Tickets at illawarrafolkclub.org.au or $13; 16 & under, free. Carole 4929 RAPT (Rosie McDonald, Ann ring 1300 887 034 3912, Ron Brown 4926 1313. newcas- Palumbo, Paul Laszlo) urbanex.com.au Saturday 15th tlehuntervalleyfolkclub.org.au - jazz-edged folk with classical Loaded Dog (3rd Sat instead of 4th). Monday 3rd influences. The Royal Exchange Salon George Mann (USA) A former Dancing in the Park (mfs.org.au/ Theatre royalexchangenewcastle.com. union organiser and activist based in wiki) - a free evening of contra dancing au, 34 Bolton St, Newcastle. 8pm. $20, New York, he sings songs from the last with Canberra Contra Club, at Stage or 2 for $30 - we want you to bring a century of labour and social activism, 88 (covered), Commonwealth Park. All friend! 4929 4969 and his own powerful and funny dances taught & called. 6.45pm - dusk. songs. Part sing-along, part history BYO picnic, 6pm, in covered pergola lesson. Evening starts with floorspots near Regatta Point. + support act. Upstairs Annandale

The Folk Federation of NSW ONLINE - jam.org.au The CORNSTALK Gazette FEBRUARY 2014 5 festivals and events 19th Cobargo Folk Festival 21st, 22nd, 23rd February, 2014 21st, 23rd February, 2014 Cobargo Folk Festival The 19th annual Cobargo Folk www.cobargofolkfestival.com Festival is on again at the Cobargo Showgrounds on the 7th - 10th March, 2014 21st -23rd February. Cobargo Port Fairy Folk Festival is located mid-way between www.portfairyfolkfestival.com Bega and Narooma on the 14th - 18th March 2014 beautiful Sapphire Coast. Blue Mountains Music Festival The festival presents, on eight [email protected] 1800 651 322 stages, an eclectic mix of folk 14-16th March and world music acts, blues Bonnie Doon Music & Busker Festival (Vic.). and roots, comedy, dance and Applications at www.bonniedoonmusicfestival. a dedicated youth stage. The com line up this year includes The 21 - 23rd March, 2014 Underscore Orkestra (USA), Enquiries: 0417880889 Jonathon Bob Lynne ( Can- yackfolkfestival.com ada), The Beez (Germany), Alistair Brown (UK), Reg 17th - 21st April, 2014 Mombassa and Pete Doherty’s National Folk Festival 2014 Dog Trumpet, Pukara, Doug www.folkfestival.org.au DeVries, Bruce Matthiske, 24th - 27th April, 2014 Senor Cabrales, Steady Eddy, Four Winds Music Festival Bermagui Glover and Sorrensen, Ker- (02) 6493 3414 rianne Cox, Paul Mbenna and the Okapi Guitar Band, The [email protected] Recycled String Band, plus many more . Alistair Brown 24th - 27th April, 2014 St Albans Folk Festival 2014 The festival has always sup- www.stalbansfolkfestival.com.au ported local performers and this year these include Mike Martin, Melanie Horsnell, Pete Wild, Sam McMahon, Connor Ross, The Jones Brothers, Damien Coen, The Mumbullah Dahs and Ubeautukes. In addition, a local Youth Showcase concert is held and up-and-coming young local talent gets to perform throughout the weekend in The Crossing youth venue. Spoken Word features prominently at the festival this year with the internationally renowned Jonathan Bob Lynn from Canada presenting yarns, verse and monologues from the Irish and Canadian traditions, while Maggie Murphy is our featured Austral- ian reciter. Maggie is a finalist in the 2014 Australian Bush Laureate Awards. In addition to the regular Poets’ Breakfasts (at which anyone can get up and recite), there will be spoken word and stand-up comedy workshops and performances. Another highlight this year will be a special “Strings of the South East” project featuring some of Australia’s premiere guitar- ists including Doug de Vries and Bruce Mathiske. A 40 plus piece guitar ensemble and the Festival Samba Band will come out of workshops at the festival and festival attendees are invited to participate in these workshops and be a part of this spectacular event. Dance is always popular a the festival and patrons can join in the many workshops and social dances, such as Australian Bush dances, American Contra dances, belly dancing, tango and more, or simply watch expert dance performers in their displays. The festival also provides the opportunity to participate in an extensive series of workshops and perform at several blackboard concerts over the weekend .There are a number of session areas, a friendly bar and wide selection of food outlets .The festival is particularly Kerrianne Cox family friendly, with a large area to camp in and a kid’s tent to provide entertainment and craft activities over the weekend. A tribute to John Dengate concert with Chris Woodland and friends will be included in the program. Full details of the program and performers and ticket sales can be found on the website cobargofolkfestival. com.

6 - The CORNSTALK Gazette FEBRUARY 2014 Slacky Flat, Going to the Dogs, Under the Stars Mediterranean, to Port Said and through the Suez Canal (169 kilometres), to Colombo (Ceylon) and down to the equator (with ceremonies to mark the occasion), and to the Austral- ian ports of Fremantle, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane before returning to Italy. The Italians in the audience were entranced by it and nostalgic as some of their forebears had come out on the ship, leaving behind harsh conditions in Italy. It was wonderfully nostalgic and the music was delicious. Coming into Sydney there were old ferries on film (was that the Baragoola under coal-fired steam power before she had diesel-electric motors installed?) and tugs (is that the Steam Tug Waratah?) and war ships (which were tied up at Garden Island in the 1920s). Don Flemons is a multi-talented black American. He has a spot in the Sydney Festival which is running as well in the The Illawarra Folk Festival at Slacky Flat has just concluded metropolis. This guy from Phoenix is pretty cool and has won and I slept under the stars for two nights without a tent and awards for his innovative blues music and song performance. just using a woollen bed liner and an old sleeping bag which I saw him a bit on Saturday, before `Songs You Don’t Sing I threw out afterwards. Initially, I put my gear on a nice to Children’ and then caught his Sunday afternoon session, flat area higher up in the camp sites but some rude campers He sings old style songs, and blues, and plays banjo, guitar, moved my gear and parked their car on my spot. So I took bones, flute instruments etc. He is polite, funny, a virtuoso & the hint and relocated down into the middle of the Bulli Show joins in with whatever is happening thereabouts musically. Grounds Greyhound Track which hence led to my teaser of The Whiteop Mountaineers were very enjoyable. Martha `Going to the Dogs’. The area is known historically as Slacky Spencer and Jackson Cunningham make up the duo and they Flat, a cool name I think. I went to sleep late both nights are from Whitetop, the highest mountains in Virginia. Martha and dealt with light problems by wearing blinkers provided did a bit of Appalachian dancing and they sung and performed for air travellers and by angling my newly purchased black with up-tempo old time fiddle, clawhammer banjo, bluegrass western hat against my face. The only hassle was getting up mandolin, and guitar. once each night to go for a long walk to the grandstand. There was little dew on the ground and hence a bit of moisture but I I enjoyed the Scottish pipe band performances from the bands was warm. By 8 o’clock things were starting to heat up again of the Illawarra there at Slacky Flat as well. It can stir the both temperature wise and with performances of the poet’s blood in one with Scottish ancestry. I chatted to one woman etcetera. Bacon and freshly-cooked egg rolls were available in serving behind the Slacky Flat Bar who also had Robertson front of the pavilion which helped start the day. Clan heritage, like me, along with another major clan lineage. Yes, as you’d imagine, I did have a drink or two but I won’t I enjoyed music and entertainment generally and especially have another until next time… the Berlin group, The Beez, Kavisha Mazzella (Italian-Eu- ropean smooth dulcet tones), Don Flemons, and the Scottish Grant AKA “Curly”. pipe band performances. Most things were as you’d expect at a folk festival but a session late on Saturday termed `Songs You Don’t Sing to Children’ was pretty risqué. It was suffi- Indigenous star Archie Roach at cient to `make an emu blush’. Some of the old guys had quite Illawarra Folk Festival an off-colour repertoire including a tall old frail engineer and folkie. One or two younger ones from mines, the army or Legendary Indigenous navy, knew an awful lot as well. We sang between offerings singer-songwriter `that was a terrible one, tell us another one, just like the Archie Roach was the other one, do’. headline act for the 29th I went to four sessions in which The Beez were pollinating annual Illawarra Folk their sounds to the audience. Included was Part One and Part Festival. Two of `Don’t Mention The Wall’, and `You Might As Well Roach has shared the Laugh Mate’ in the Show Pavilion on Sunday morning, and stage with superstars `The Best of The Beez’ at 1700 on Sunday in the Slacky Flat Leonard Cohen, Bob Bar stage area. The slide show about the Berlin Wall removal Dylan, Paul Simon and was fascinating and cleverly illustrated with word and song Tracy Chapman during by the three Germans and ex-pat Aussie who has lived there a stellar career spanning in Berlin more than 25 years. three decades. Kavisha Mazzella was a musician in I Viaggiatori’s two This year his latest showings of the film Dall’ Italia All’ Australia providing live album, Into The Blood- music for the black and white movie which has only been re- stream, was named Al- discovered in the last six years or so and copied from the sole bum of the Year in both positive remaining. The movie was about the 1923 voyage of the National Indigenous the Italian vessel through Italian ports, then down through the Music Awards and the Deadly Awards.

The Folk Federation of NSW ONLINE - jam.org.au The CORNSTALK Gazette FEBRUARY 2014 7 a musical instrument or are capable of entertaining people with their poems, yarns & songs like the late John Dengate for instance – don’t have to attend. That’s exactly right (a typical Australian expression that sounds double Dutch to me). But then they wouldn’t collect their entry fee either, so why not let them in for free? Financially, it wouldn’t make a difference! However, let’s suggest that it would be reasonable to charge $20. I’m talking about people who have been part of the folk scene for a number of years and not just carry a lagerphone to gain free access. Surrounding folk clubs could be asked to make a donation. At St.Albans, the situation is automatically solved, hence the increasing attendance over the years. It is the result of a natu- ral lay-out of public places & a temporary venue consisting of a huge marquee for which access has to be paid. There are two types of audiences that sometimes overlap of course; people who are mainly interested in listening to a variety of paid pro- fessional or talented performers, or people happily drinking Letter to the Editor beer while enjoying the familiar tunes of visiting folkies. Ignored Species Please give it some thought. The medium to large scale folk festivals grew out of age-old Aart gatherings of musicians playing in private surroundings or for The Editor welcomes your views. local dances when that sort of entertainment was virtually the only one available. folk news In Friesland, the most northern province in The Netherlands, youngsters would ride their pushbikes for miles from outly- ing villages to attend, hopefully to eventually find a suitable Bush Music Club partner to marry because in those days, marriage was still the The Bush Music Club, Australia's oldest folk club turns 60 acceptable way to reproduce. this year and will have a full program of regular and special Rob Willis was lucky enough to discover ripe old age musi- events throughout the year. Details will be found on BMC cians in the Forbes area who still remembered their popular website and BMC's Mulga Wire and in Cornstalk and on jam. gigs of yesteryear. org.au throughout the year. We will also be appearing at various festivals, starting with the National in April. The forming of registered folkclubs came next. The Sydney based Bush Music Club – apparently the oldest one in Aus- We start the year with the return of singing to the Hut, Tritton tralia – is still very active. As a matter of fact, it will celebrate Hall, BMC's headquarters at the Addison Road Centre in its 60th anniversary next year. Congratulations ! Marrickville. Duke's place, named after our honoured early member Harold 'Duke' Tritton (1886-1965), will be the place Members of these clubs like to meet and join in jam sessions to go once a month for a great night of Australian songs in that can go on for hours on end. concert and session. Duke was a founder member, a power- Impromptu ones with Peter Ellis and Marry McQueen come ful singer who supplied BMC with many songs he had learnt to mind. The more organised ones in Kiama and – quite a in his younger days while working as a shearer and at other while ago now – at Rob and Olya’s, gave interested partici- bush jobs. He was also a songwriter and poet giving us songs pants the chance to practise the provided music at home in that have entered the tradition such as Sandy Hollow Line order to become better prepared for the event. Their contribu- and Shearing in the Bar. tions helped to improve their expertise and also created a nos- Sandra Nixon talgic atmosphere for the attending crowd; a 50/50 situation. Secretary, Bush Music Club (bushmusic.org.au) Unfortunately, to offset their enormous expenses, the new breed of organisers do not distinguish between contributors and people who only want to be entertained. At the recently held Kangaroo Valley Folk Festival, I was shocked to discover that as an 85 year old folk musician I had to pay $50 for one day to enter what is actually a public park. Since I said that I was playing with the Ruido Flamenco Blues group on the following Sunday, I was granted a $25 concession for playing a couple of tunes because others were few and far between. The session venue was more like a dog kennel at the side of the pub, whose attendants dropped just about every five minutes a bag of empty beer bottles in the nearby bins; disgraceful! There were even inspectors check- ing armbands! It could of course be argued that WE – the real participating folkies, the ones spending hours & hours to decently master

8 - The CORNSTALK Gazette FEBRUARY 2014 Folk Music Singer and Activist played on the radio." Seeger was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Pete Seeger Dies 1996 as an early influence. (Adapted from an article in The Australian) Ten years later, Bruce Springsteen honoured him with We Seeger's grandson, Kitama Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, a rollicking reinterpre- Cahill-Jackson, says Seeger tation of songs sung by Seeger. died on Monday night after being hospitalised for six While pleased with the album, Seeger said he wished it was days. "more serious". Seeger gained fame as a A 2009 concert at Madison Square Garden to mark Seeger's member of The Weavers, 90th birthday featured Springsteen, Dave Matthews, Eddie the quartet formed in 1948 Vedder and Emmylou Harris among the performers. and had hits such as Good- Seeger was a 2014 Grammy Awards nominee in the Best night Irene. Spoken Word category, which was won by Stephen Colbert. He continued performing & recording for six decades The Beez benefit Bundanoon Garden and was still an activist as The Beez from Berlin, Germany, are touring Australia for recently as October 2011 the sixth time from January to May 2014 and are buzzing when he marched in New York City as part of the Occupy into Bundanoon village for a house concert on Sunday 16th Wall Street protests. February at 7pm. He was onstage in January 2009 for a gala Washington con- "Cabaret like no other with two Deutsch gals, an Aussie and a cert two days before Barack Obama was inaugurated. San Fran lad. Old songs like they're rarely heard - new songs But in the 1950s, his leftist politics got him blacklisted & he like the old ones feel and all with the most unexpected instru- was kept off commercial television for more than a decade. ments and style." (Quote from Tamworth Country Music Festival web site.) With The Weavers, Seeger helped set the stage for a national folk revival. The group - Seeger, Lee Hays, Ronnie Gilbert $10 of the $25 ticket price will be donated to the Bundanoon and Fred Hellerman - churned out hit recordings of Good- Community Garden. Seating is limited so it will be essen- night Irene, Tzena, Tzena and On Top of Old Smokey. tial to book and pay for tickets in advance. For tickets and information about the event, contact Dallas on 0417 254 411 Seeger also was credited with popularising We Shall Over- or [email protected] come, which he printed in his publication People's Song, in 1948. He later said his only contribution to the anthem of the Playing an average of 120 shows a year, primarily in Europe, civil rights movement was changing the second word from but extending to major folk festivals in Canada (Vancouver "will" to "shall", which he said "opens up the mouth better". Island Musicfest, South Country Fair) and Australia (Wood- ford, Port Fairy, The National, Adelaide Fringe), The Beez "Every kid who ever sat around a campfire singing an old have made numerous television and radio appearances world- song is indebted in some way to Pete Seeger," Arlo Guthrie wide, including ABC's Spicks and Specks. Once purveyors once said. of eccentric cover versions of songs from the Balkans to the His musical career was always braided tightly with his Baltic – "The originals can only be considered second best political activism, in which he advocated for causes ranging to The Beez´ wonderfully unique interpretations" (Berliner from civil rights to the cleanup of his beloved Hudson River. Morgenpost) – The Beez now cover their own compositions Seeger said he left the Communist Party around 1950 and and, with the addition of soaring four-part harmonies, create later renounced it. But the association dogged him for years. a bittersweet and truly diverse potpourri of genres. Lyrically incisive in both English and German, The Beez cut a swathe He was kept off commercial television for more than a between scathing and soothing, their trademark cabaret sensi- decade after tangling with the House Un-American Activities bilities never far from the surface. Committee in 1955. Repeatedly pressed by the committee to reveal whether he had sung for Communists, Seeger respond- Accordion chanteuse & native West Berliner Deta co-found- ed sharply: "I love my country very dearly, and I greatly ed the legendary Berliner cabaret venue, Chameleon, shortly resent this implication that some of the places that I have after the fall of the Berlin Wall. This rapidly became a major sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of talent pool for musicians from east and west who could, for my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, or I the first time in 50 years, make music together. Velvet-voiced might be a vegetarian, make me any less of an American." East Berliner Julischka, singing bass player with punk and Balkan leanings, joined Deta for an historic east-west accord He was charged with contempt of Congress, but the sentence to form The Beez. Deta drafted Sydney boy, Rob Rayner, was overturned on appeal. singer and guitarist, who had arrived in Berlin shortly before Seeger called the 1950s, years when he was denied broadcast the fall of The Wall, and finger-picking San Franciscan, exposure, the high point of his career. He was on the road tour- Peter D’Elia, on banjo and dobro. Originally a staple of the ing college campuses, spreading the music he, Guthrie, Hud- Chameleon´s hallowed boards, The Beez transcended cabaret die "Leadbelly" Ledbetter and others had created or preserved. to form their own unique blend of music and humour with which they have enchanted audiences all over the world. "The most important job I did was go from college to college to college to college, one after the other, usually small ones," The Beez have recorded a stunning album of original songs he told The Associated Press in 2006. "... And I showed the – a debut, in a sense – Freischwimmer (“free swimmer”), kids there's a lot of great music in this country they never which was released by Berlin label D’Vision in May 2013.

The Folk Federation of NSW ONLINE - jam.org.au The CORNSTALK Gazette FEBRUARY 2014 9 folk contacts Choirs Monday Cleftomaniacs. Waterloo, led by Gary Smith, Nea MacCulloch 9904 1358(a/h) or Lynn AshCapella, Ashfield, led by Mary-Jane [email protected] 8244 9618(w) Field, 9090 2362 Solidarity Choir. Erskinville, Cathy Rytmeis- Sutherland Shire Folk Dance Group. Ecopella. Blue Mountains, Miguel Heat- ter, 0438 683 867, [email protected] International Dancing, Gymea Bay Scout wole, 9810 4601 [email protected] Friday Hall, June Place, 7.30pm-9pm. Kaye Laurendet 9528 4813 Glory Bound Groove Train. Petersham, led Mudlarks, women’s a cappella choir. Wood- by Linda Calgaro, 9518 4135 ford. Led by Alison Jones 4759 2880 Turkish Dance Class. Lidcombe Pacopezants. Balkan Choir Fri 4pm, Katoomba. Community Centre, 8pm-10pm. Yusuf Nidai Inner West Chamber Choir, Leichhardt, 9646 1166 led by Rachelle Elliott. 9797 1917. info@ June 4782 1554. [email protected] Ukrainian (Cossack) Dancing Class for innerwestchoir.com. The Sydney Street Choir. CBD, led by fit and energetic young people (16-23yrs), Intonations. Manly, Karen Smith, (0415) Peter Lehner 0425 268 771 Sunday 7.30 pm to 10.00 pm. Ukrainian Hall 59 221 113, [email protected] Joseph Street, Lidcombe. Jaros Iwanec 9817 Martenitsa. Ultimo, led by Mara and Llew Blue Mountains Trade Union Choir. Upper 7991, [email protected] /www. Kiek, 47514910 Mts., contact Kate 47 82 5529. veselka.com.au People’s Chorus. Newcastle, led by Rod International Folk Dance class - Open Noble, 49 623432 Dance Door, Georges Hall Senior Citizens, Perfect 5th, Marrickville, led by Gemma Monday Birdwood Rd, 11.30am-12.30pm. Gabrielle Turner 0435 037 794 9728 7466, [email protected] Bush Music Club Dance Workshop. Begin- Unaccompanied Baggage. North Sydney, ners, experienced, 7.30pm, Pennant Hills “The Dance Buffet”, wide variety taught, led by Stuart Davis, [email protected] Liverpool City Pipe Band Hall, Woodward Community Centre, downstairs. Except Jan. Park (next to Whitlam Centre), Memorial Voiceworks, Katoomba, ledby Rachel Hore and public holidays. Felicity 9456 2860 4759 2456, [email protected] Ave, 7.30-9.30pm. $8 ($5 conc). Nicholai International Folk Dancing. School term, 9822 7524, mob 0407 178 228. Tuesday Earlwood Senior Citizens Ctr, 362 Homer Cantorion, Neutral Bay, led by David West- St 10am-12pm. Debbie 4294 1363 0427 315 Wednesday more, 9716 7016 245 Albion Fair, North-West Morris Dancing Ecopella. Illawarra area (alternate Tuesdays), Scottish Country Dancing for beginners, Lilyfield Community Centre, Cecily and led by Miguel Heatwole 9810 4601, mheat- with ‘Scots on the Rocks’, Fort St Public O’Neill Sts, 7.45pm. Angie Milce 9817 [email protected] School, Observatory Hill, Sydney, 6.30- 3529 Roc Lawson, led by Rachel Hore, 47592456, 7.30pm. Nea 9994 7110, Lynn 9268 1246, Australian Heritage Dancers. [email protected] SC [email protected], www.rscds. Annandale Neighbourhood Centre, 79 The Honeybees. East Sydney, led by Dynes org.au Johnston St, 8pm -10pm. Jim Young Austin. Contact Jenny Jackson, 9816 4577 Belly Dance, basic/beginners 7pm, choreog- 9412 3721 [email protected] - [email protected] raphy 8pm, Girraween Hall, 17 Tungarra Rd. australianheritagedancers.org.au Sydney Trade Union Choir Sydney City, Vera Myronenko 9665 9713 Balmoral Scottish Country Dance Group Seniors’ Centre, Mosman Square, Mosman contact Nola Cooper 9587 1165 - Nola.Coo- International Dancing for Older Women. [email protected] 7pm - 9.15pm. Nell Morgan 9981 4769. Sutherland Pensioners' Centre, 749A Old Epping Scottish Country Dance Club Songs Next Door, Seaview Street, Dul- Prince's Hwy. 1.30-2.30pm. $40 per term wich Hill, meets weekly at Sea View Hall, St Aidan’s Church Hall, Downing St, (incl. 8 other activities). Noreen 9545 Seaview St, Dulwich Hill. 12.30pm. (Seniors 7.30pm-10pm. All levels welcome. Clare mostly) Contact Allan 9520 6180 3489, [email protected] or Pat Haack 9484 5947 clare_kirton@hotmail. [email protected] Wednesday com Choralation. Abbotsford (school terms), Tuesday Gosford Scottish Country Dance Society Margaret Grove [email protected] Blue Mountains Scottish Country 7pm-10pm, Church of Christ, Henry Parry Drive, Wyoming. Cecily Cork 4384 3527, Ecopella. Erskineville, led by Miguel Heat- Dancers Catholic Church Hall, 7-9pm, Jan McCudden 4329 5537 wole, 9810 4601 [email protected] Wentworth St, $3 Verley Kelliher, 4787 5968, Greek Folk Dance Class. PCYC The Heathens. Blackheath, day time 2pm- [email protected] Carol Gardner 4751 Marrickville, 531 Illawarra Road, 4pm. Led by Chris Wheeler 4787 5725 6073/[email protected] Marrickville. 7.30pm - 9pm. Vas chriswheelersanddealers.com.au Greek Folk Dance Class. Mytilenean House, 225 Canterbury Rd, Canterbury Aligiannis 0407 081 875 (02) 9708 0801, NoteTonight, Josephine. Glebe, led by [email protected] David Westmore, 9716 7016 7.30pm - 9pm. Vas Aligiannis, 0407 081 875, [email protected] International Dancing for Older Women. The Spots. Christina Mimmocchi, Randwick Sutherland Pensioners' Centre, 749A Old 0410 682 061 Hungarian Dance Class. Ultimo, 8pm -10pm. Gary Dawson 9559 4485. Prince's Hwy. 1.30-2.30pm. $40 per term The Sydney Welsh Choir, men and women. [email protected] (incl. 8 other activities). Noreen 9545 Meet on Wednesday evenings at Concord Baptist Church hall. 7pm - 9pm. 20 + per- English Country Dancing, with Sydney 3489, [email protected] or Pat formances p.a. Contact MD Viv 4739 0384, Playford Dance Group. 1st Tues (except [email protected] [email protected]. President Clive 9997 2019. January), 7.30-9.30pm. Hut 44 (Bush Music Irish Set Dance class, Irish Gaelic Club, Club), Addison Road Community Centre, 64 Devonshire St, Surry Hills. 8pm-9.30pm. Thursday 142 Addison Road, Marrickville. Julie or Alarna 0401 167 910. Bouddi Voice. Kincumber (school terms), Alex 9524 0247, jlsbish(at)ozemail.com.au, led by C & C Sainsbury, contact 43 683270 www.facebook.com/sydneyplayford Chorella Community Choir. Richmond, Scottish Country Dancing Fort Street contact Ellen 4578 2975 School, Observatory Hill, City. 6pm to 8pm

10 - The CORNSTALK Gazette FEBRUARY 2014 Sutherland Shire Bush Dance Group. Chris Wild 9560 2910. Church Sts, 1300 887 034 www.illawarra- Uniting Church, 4 Gosport St, Cronulla, Scottish Country Dancing. Adult classes, folkclub.org.au 7.30pm-10pm. $4. (1st night free) Beginners beginners welcome, children 6.30pm Springwood Neighbourhood Centre most welcome. Partners not necessary. Mike -7.30pm, adults 8pm-10.30pm, Beecroft Acoustic Club, or SNC Acoustic Club 9520 2859 Primary School, $2. Sheena Caswell 9868 Regular folk nights 4th Fri (Feb-Nov), 8pm Sutherland Shire Folk Dance Group 2075, Heather Dryburgh 9980 7978 $7/$5 Springwood Neighbourhood Centre, International dancing, Como Guides Hall, Scottish Country Dancing. Caringbah Macquarie Rd, Springwood. (next to Civic cnr Warraba & Mulyan Sts, Como West Seniors Hall, 386 Port Hacking Rd, Car- Centre). Visitors and floor performers wel- 9.30am, - 11am & 11.30am - 12.30pm. ingbah (rear Library), 8pm. Beginners/other come. Mark Hand 4721 4230 eternitynow@ Kaye 9528 4813, [email protected] levels. G. Milton 9524 4943, Erica Nimmo tadaust.org.au Thursday 9520 4781 Toongabbie Music Club. 2nd and 4th Fri Blue Labyrinth World Dancers. Term Saturday 8pm, Northmead Scout Hall, Whitehaven Rd, time, 7.30-9.30pm. Glenbrook Baptist Bush Music Club Bush Dances. Feb-Dec Northmead. Sessions always happen so bring Church Hall, King St. Jo Barrett 4739 (not Easter), 8pm-12pm, $17/$14/$12 incl. instruments. Allen 9639 7494 allendavis@ 6498 or Jeanette Mollenhauer 4739 0909 supper, children to 12 free. Beecroft Com- iprimus.com.au. or Ray Pulis 9899 2102. Country Dancing for the Over 55’s. Ameri- munity Ctr 1st Sat, Sigrid 9980 7077, Wilma Saturday can Contra + 11.30am - 1pm. Beginner Eng- 9489 5594, Peter 9477 5848 Bluegrass & Traditional Country Music lish 1pm-2pm. Advanced English 2pm-4pm Central Coast Bush Dance. Second Society of Aust. 1st Sat, March-December School for Seniors, Wesley Mission, 220 Pitt Saturday, 7.30pm - 11.30pm, East Gosford Sydney get-together. Annandale Neighbour- St. Sydney. (Opposite back of Hilton Hotel.) Progress Hall, Henry Parry Dr and Wells St, hood Centre, 79 Johnston St, Annandale. Roslyn 9263 5416 $15/$12. Beate 4323 3356. Robyn 4344 6484. Band workshop 6.30pm, concert 7.45pm, Scottish and Old Time Dance. Second jamming all night. All welcome: $6/$8. (02) Introductory Cuban Salsa class with Saturday. 8pm, Uniting Church, 9am-11am Calle Salsa. Petersham Bowling Club, 77 9456 1090 www.bluegrassoldtimeaustralia. Bay St, Rockdale. $3 incl. supper. Chris org Brighton Ave. Last Thurs. Free. 7.30pm; then Thom 9587 9966. lllawarra Folk Club. 3rd Sat, Wollongong band, 8pm (see Music in Concert). 0417 426 Scottish and Old Time Dancing Orkney City Diggers Club, cnr Burelli & Church Sts, 684 and Shetland Assoc. 3rd Sat, 8pm-11 pm. 1300 887 034 www.illawarrafolkclub.org.au English Country Dancing. 1st & 3rd Thurs. St David’s Hall, Dalhousie St, Haberfield. Church by the Bridge hall (St John’s Angli- $3 inc. supper. Visitors most welcome. Jean Loaded Dog Folk Club. 4th Sat, Annandale can), Broughton St (cnr Bligh St), Kirribilli. Cooney 9874 5570. Neighbourhood Centre, 79 Johnston St, 8pm. Sandra Nixon, 9358 4886, kxbears@ozemail. Enter courtyard gate - hall is on right. 7pm Macedonian Dance Class Rockdale. com.au. www.theloadeddog.org.au -9pm. Donations (optional), for the church 6.30pm-8.30pm, $5. Y Kaporis 0412 861 180 or expenses. Please email Margaret Swait, so Mortdale Scottish Dancers Learners Macquarie Towns Music Club.Saturday that you can be advised of schedule changes: Night (for learners and experienced), 7.30- 'The Beat', an acoustic concert, 4 times [email protected] www.english- 9.30pm. Pensioners Welfare Club Hall, 76 a year, featuring guest artists; floor spots countrydancesydney.com Pitt Street, Mortdale. Pam Jehan 9580 8564. by arrangement. BYO drinks, snacks. St Blue Labyrinth International Folk Dance Linnéa Swedish FolkdancersGraeme Peters Educational Centre, 384 Windsor from 7pm, Baptist Church Hall, King St Traves 9874 4194, [email protected] St, Richmond. 7pm. $12, $10. Lydia 4576 Glenbrook. Jo Barrett 4739 6498 0521, [email protected]. Medieval Miscellany (Medieval Dancing). Greek Folk Dance Class. Mytilenian House, All Saints Parish House, cnr Oxford and au or on Facebook. 225 Canterbury , 7.30pm. (Vas Aligiannis, Cromwell Sts, New Lambton. Saturdays, The Shack. 1st Sat, 21st century original, 0407 081 875, [email protected]. 3.30pm-5.30pm. $10. Dianne 4936 6220 contemp & trad. folk music at The Tramshed, au 1395a Pittwater Rd, Narrabeen 7:30. BYO Sutherland Shire Folk Dance Group. drinks & nibblies. Rhonda (0416) 635 856 or International dancing. Scout Hall, June Place, Music in Concert Roxana [email protected] Gymea Bay. 10am. Kaye 9528 4813 okaye@ Wednesday Troubadour Folk Club. Central Coast, 4th optusnet.com.au Sat. 7pm CWA Hall, Woy Woy. (opp. Fisher- Wisefolk Club. Last Wed in month, 11am- Sydney Irish Ceili Dancers. Kingsgrove man’s Wharf), The Boulevard, Woy Woy. 2.30pm, Toongabbie Bowling Club, 12 Uniting Church Hall, 289A Kingsgrove Rd $11/$9/$8. Floor spots available.includes Station Rd, lunch at club bistro. Sonia 9621 (cnr Moreton Avenue, Kingsgrove. Beginners light supper. Marilyn or Frank 4341 4060 or 2394 Allen 9639 7494, to intermediate step dancing 6pm, advanced (0419) 231 319 step dancing 7pm Set and ceili dancing 8pm- Thursday Fairlight Folk Acoustic Lounge. Four times 10.30pm. Margaret and Bill Winnett 9150 Musica Linda  live Cuban beats and a year, Feb, May, Aug, Nov (usually 1st 6765. email: [email protected] world music sounds, to dance to. Petersham Sat) 7.30pm. Quality live acoustic music in Friday Bowling Club, 77 Brighton Ave. Last Thurs. a comfortable, relaxed environment. After Australian Colonial and Folk Dancers. 8-10pm. $10. Good food available. Linda show - jam. BYO drinks and nibbles. Light Every Friday, Scouts/Guides Hall, Marr 0417 426 684. [email protected] www. refreshments available. William St Studios, Plympton Road, Carlingford, (opposite Nth musicalinda.com.au Fairlight (Baptist Church down from Sydney Carlingford shops). Anthony and Lisa 9873 Sutherland Acoustic . 2nd Thurs, 7.30pm Rd.) Rosie 9948 7993. www.fairlightfolk. 4805. Tradies Club, Kingsway, Gymea. Friendly, com sociable entertainment. Floor spots welcome. Greek Dancing. St Therapon Greek Ortho- Twilight Music Cafe. 3rd Sun, 5-8pm. Jenny 9576 2301. dox Parish (Church Hall) 323 Cumberland Springwood Sports Club, 83 Macquarie Rd. Highway, Thornleigh. Time: Juniors 6.30pm Friday 5-8pm. Free. Family friendly environment with meals available. 4751 1298 - 7.30pm (Callipe Group) Hornsby Kuring-Gai Folk Club. 3rd Fri, Pontian House. 15 Riverview Rd, Earlwood. 8pm, Each month Beatrice Taylor Hall, rear Junior Class - 6.30pm - 7.30pm (Thalia Willow Park Community Centre, Edgeworth junior group - 3yrs to 12 yrs. Class is free, David Ave, Guest artist & floor spots, light Pontian only) supper provided BYO grog. Barry Parks 9807 9497 [email protected] International Dancing. Sedenka Folk Dancers, Rozelle Neighbourhood Centre, lllawarra Folk Club. 1st Friday, Wol- 665A Darling St Rozelle. 8pm-llpm, $3. longong City Diggers Club, cnr Burelli &

The Folk Federation of NSW ONLINE - jam.org.au The CORNSTALK Gazette FEBRUARY 2014 11 Sessions & Free Eastern Suburbs Poetry Group.4th Sat. Anglican Church Hall, BYO everything. Sue Read your own or listen to others. Friends 4842 8142 Workshops Room, Waverly Library, 32 Denison Street, Tallaganda Dance Troupe. Folk dance, Monday Bondi Junction. 1-3pm. Gina 0413 300 919 Mon. 9.30am 35 Coronation Ave, Braid- Bush Music Club. Music Workshop. Addi- Song Circle. 1st Sat, 7pm. Participatory wood. Noela 4842 8004 son Rd. Community Centre, 44/142 Addison song, music, poetry etc. Ruby's Place, Cha- Broken Hill Rd, Marrickville, 7.30pm. All singers & pel by the Sea, 95 Roscoe St, Bondi Beach. Occasional Acoustic Jam Nights. Bell’s musicians welcome. Bob 9569 7244, bob- 9130 3445. www.chapelbythesea.uniting- Milk Bar. Contact Broken Hill Art Exchange, [email protected] or 0412 145 262 church.org.au/song-circle (08) 8008 3171 Tuesday Sunday Central Coast Irish Music Session. 2nd & 4th Tues 7.30- Hotel Illawarra Wollongong. 3rd Sun, 3pm, Troubadour. 4th Sat. 7pm CWA Hall, 10.30pm @ The Shamrock Inn, Asquith spoken word, 5pm acoustic music Woy Woy. (opp. Fisherman’s Wharf), The Leagues Club, Alexandra Pd. Waitara (short Irish Music Session. Kellys, King St, New- Boulevard, Woy Woy. $11/$9/$8. Floor spots walk from station). It’s an open session and town, 6pm. 9559 6300 available. includes light supper. Marilyn or all musicians are welcome with focus on Irish Music Session. 3rd Sunday. Bennet Frank 4341 4060 or (0419) 231 319 tunes rather than songs. Phone Norm 9489 Hotel, Hamilton, 4-7.30pm Roz and Shane Cobargo 5786 [email protected] Kerr 4967 3167 Yuin Folk Club. Occasional Folk Nights. Irish Music Session, Gaelic Club 8pm. plus Irish Music Sessions. Dicey Riley’s, Wol- David Crowden 0404 359 631. yuinfolk- Irish music lessons including fiddle, flute, longong 2pm. [email protected], cobargofolkfestival.com whistle, guitar, banjo. 1st Floor, 64 Dev- Music lessons for kids. 12-3pm. Focus on tin Cooma onshire St. Surry Hills, 9212 1587 info@ whistle. Gaelic Club. Surry Hills 9212 1587. International Folk Dancing. Uniting Church gaelicclub.com.au Music Session. Hero of Waterloo, cnr Lower Hall, Soho St, Thurs, 6pm. Fran 6453 3282 Wednesday Fort St and Windmill Street, The Rocks. Dubbo Gosford Bush Poets. Last Wed 7pm. 6-10pm. Brendan 9818 4864 Dubbo Folk Club. Usually 2nd Sun, Gosford Hotel, cnr of Mann & Erina Sts. All Slow Session (Irish). Hut 44, Addison 2.30pm, Western Star Hotel. All welcome. Di welcome to share in night of fun, friendship Rd Community Centre, 142 Addison Clifford 6882 0498 (0458) 032 150 and great poetry. Contact Vic Jefferies, 02 Rd, Marrickville. 6.30pm. $10, $5 conc ($15 when Fiona McVicar leads, on 2nd Gosford 96394911 or [email protected] Gosford Bush Poets. - last Wed 7pm Sundays). Brian [email protected] Thursday Gosford Hotel, cnr of Mann & Erina Sts. All Sutherland Acoustic. Fourth Thursday of Songlines Song Club. 1st Sun, 7pm. The welcome to share in night of fun, friendship each. month from 7.30pm Gymea Tradies Old Fitzroy Hotel, 129 Dowling St, Wool- and great poetry. Contact Vic Jefferies, 02 Club, Kingsway, Gymea. Friendly jam. All loomooloo. www.facebook.com/groups/ 96394911 or [email protected] welcome to sing, play an instrument, recite songlinessongclub Goulburn poetry or just listen. Enq. Jenny 95762301 Sydney Scottish Fiddlers. 1st & 3rd Sun, Bush Traditions Sessions. Old Goulburn Blackheath Folk Club. 1st Thurs, 7.30pm, 2-5pm, New Church, 4 Shirley Rd Roseville. Brewery. 1st Fri (except Jan & April), Ivanhoe Hotel, cnr Gt Wstn Hwy & Govetts All ages. Trish 9416 2402 7.30pm. Bradley Grange, Bungonia Road Leap Rd. Christine/Peter 4787 7246 David Johnson 4884 4214 bushtraditions.org/ Eastern Suburbs Poetry Group. 3rd Thurs sessions/goulburnsession.htm Poetry, songs, stories. Auditorium, Bowen Li- Regional Events Irish and Celtic Music Sessions. Old brary 669-673 Anzac Pde, Maroubra. 6-8pm. Bateman's Bay Goulburn Brewery. 3rd Fri. Bradley Grange, Gina 0413 300 919 Scottish Country Dancing. Batemans Bay Bungonia Road. 4821 6071. Friday Caledonian Society -Tue 7.30pm Batemans Grafton. Grafton Celtic & Contemporary Bay Bowling Club - all welcome. 4457 2065. Bush Music Club Singalong Night. Themed Folk Session. All welcome - singers, musos, music nights, 1st Fri (exc. hols), 8-10pm. Bellingen listeners. We have song books to share. Bring something to sing, eat, drink. Hut Celtic Australian Session. Sat from 1pm. 1st Sunday (except January), 2pm, Stables 44, Addison Rd Com. Centre, 142 Addison Northern end of Church Street cafe strip. Restaurant area, Roches Hotel, cnr Victoria Rd, Marrickville. 9569 7244, bobbolton@ John 6655 5898 Carole 6655 1225 & Hockey Sts. No charge. Mazza 6647 3274, netspace.net.au Blue Mountains [email protected], Geoff 6647 3129 Springwood Neighbourhood Centre Blue Mountains Heritage Dancers. Wed Gulgong Acoustic Club. 4th Fri, (Feb-Nov) 8pm, in term time, 7.30-930pm. Wentworth Falls Gulgong Folk Club, 3rd Fri, Waratah Hotel, $7/$5, Springwood Neighbourhood Ctr, Mac- SOA. 217 Great Westn Hwy. (0439) 314 Mudgee 5pm. PO Box 340, Gulgong NSW quarie Rd (next to library & Oriental Hotel) 948, [email protected] or (0412) 2852, Bob Campbell 02 6373 4600, gulgong- Visitors & floor spots welcome, Theresa 4751 786 988 folkfestival.com 8157, Jeannette 4754 4893 Blackheath Folk Club. 1st Thursdays, Kiama Bluegrass jam/tune session. Friendly jam 7.30pm. New Ivanhoe Hotel (Dining “No Such Thing”. Yvonne O’Grady hosts an withy like minded musicians. Music pro- Room), Great Western Hwy (cnr Govett's Australian tune session suitable for beginners vided, chord knowledge required. Listeners Leap Rd). Christine Davies 9807 9497 every Mon. 4233 1073 [email protected] welcome. Gymea Tradies Club, Kingsway, Blue Labyrinth World Dancers. Thursday Newcastle Gymea. 7.30pm. Enq. Jenny 95762301 in term time, 7.30-9.30pm. Glenbrook Baptist Acoustic Folk Lounge, 1st Wed, 7-10pm. Saturday church hall, King St. Jo Barrett 4739 6498, Downstairs, Grand Hotel, cnr Church and Macquarie Towns Music Club. 3rd Sat, Jeanette Mollenhauer 4739 0909 Bolton Sts, Newcastle. Circle session. All Feb-Nov. Round the Table Music Session. Blue Mountains Folk. Mid Mountains Com. welcome. Cath 0437 556 864. Bring instruments, songs, poems for a fun Centre, Joy Anderson Room, 7 New St, Law- Bush and Colonial Dancing. 3rd Sun and friendly night. St Peters Educational son. 3rd Sunday, 3.30-6pm. Nick Szentkuti 3-5pm. Beginners and visitors always Centre, 384 Windsor St, Richmond. 4758 7953, [email protected] welcome. All Saints Anglican Hall, New 7pm. $7, $5 , includes tea, coffee. BYO Irish Session at the Carrington, Katoomba. Lambton. Enq. Margaret Kenning 4952 1327 snacks, drinks. Lydia 4576 0521, info@ 4th Sunday, 3pm. email: [email protected] macquarietownsmusicclub.com.au or on Bush and Colonial Dancing. 3rd Sun, Facebook. Braidwood Braidwood Folk Music Club. 3rd Thurs 3-5pm. Beginners and visitors always

12 - The CORNSTALK Gazette FEBRUARY 2014 welcome. All Saints Anglican Hall, New Southern Highlands Across The Border Lambton. Margaret Kenning 4952 1327, Bowral Folk Club. 4th Thurs, 8pm (after [email protected] dinner at the Bistro). Acoustic, Blackboard, ACT Newcastle and Hunter Valley Folk Club. Round Robin (2 songs per perf., more for a Monaro Folk Society, PO Box 482 Civic Sq, 1st Sat. 7.30pm (not Jan) Wesley Centre, group), free. Moved to Mittagong RSL (but ACT 2608 (0409) 817 623 [email protected]. Beaumont St, Hamilton. (Dances held 4 still Bowral at heart). 4861 6076, Ray Gurney au mfs.org.au/ times a year, March, June, Sept, Nov) Lainey [email protected] Northern Territory 4943 4552, 0421 412 358 laineyv@bigpond. Top End Folk Club, PO Box 41551, Casua- Burrawang Folk, 4887 7271 com. newcastlehuntervalleyfolkclub.org.au rina, NT 0811. Di Howard, (08) 8945 0436 Southern Highlands Recreational lnter- Traditional Irish/Folk Session, 1st Sun, (ah), www.members.ozemail.com.au/ national Folk Dance Group, Bowral Presb 3-6pm. Lake Macquarie Hotel, opp. Moris- Queensland Church Hall, Bendooley St, Thurs (school sett Railway St. (0418) 146 555 or (0418) term), 9-llam. Margaret 4861 2294 Brisbane Folk Club, (07) 3345 1718. 146 554, [email protected] Southern Highlands Scottish Country Cairns Folk Club, Ray Elias (07) 4039 2493 Lakeside Folk Circle. 4th Sun. Teralba Com Dance Group, Moss Vale Uniting Church, The Folk Rag (Mag), PO Box 517, Everton Hall, Anzac Pade, Lake Macquarie. 4-7pm. Cnr Argyll and Spring Streets, Wednesday, Park 4053, (0437) 736 799 or (07) 3855 $2.50. Paul 4959 6030. [email protected] 7.30pm. All welcome. Enq. 4861 6471. 1091, [email protected] FolkRag.org People’s Chorus Practice. 6pm, Trades Taree Qld Colonial & Heritage Dancers. PO Box Hall Council Meeting Rooms (opp. Panthers’ 3011, Yeronga 4104. Jan Orloff ph/fax 07 Lazarka International Folk Dance Group, main entrance), Newcastle. Rod Noble 4962 3848 7706, [email protected] 3432 [email protected] Manning River Steiner School Hall, Wed. 5.30-8.30pm, Thurs 9-11am. 6552 5142. Woodford Folk Festival. PO Box 1134, Newcastle Irish Set Dancers, Tues, 7.30- Woodford 4514. qff@woodfordfolkfestival. 9pm, Scots Kirk, Hamilton, Newcastle. Julia Wagga Wagga com www.woodfordfolkfestival.com. Downside Bush Dance & Open Mic, Tin or Arthur, 4955 5701 [email protected], Tasmania or users.tpg.com.au/juliasm/Irish-Dance/ Shed Rattlers, 1st Sat, 6928 5541. Celtic Southern Cross Folk Music Cat. Hunter Bush Poets, 2nd Tue 7pm, Tarro Wauchope Beth Sowter, [email protected]; www.celt. Hotel; Ron Brown 4951 6186. Café Blue Frog.1st Sat, 7.30pm: Concert (in- com.au; PO Box 100, Legana, as 7277. vited artists), 3rd Sat, 7.30pm: Open session. Hunter Folk Dancers. Enq. Margaret 4952 Folk Federation of Tasmania Inc. PO Box High St. 6585 1488 [email protected] 1327, 1638 Hobart 7001. Peter (0409) 216 752 Wollongong Irish Music Session. Bennett Hotel, Hamil- Victoria ton, 3rd Sun, 4pm. 4967 3167 Bluegrass Jam Session, 3rd Sat. 7.30-11pm. Ballarat Folk Club, John (03) 5332 7872 Newcastle Poetry in the Pub, 3rd & 5th Thirroul Neighbouhood Centre next to PO. Boite World Music Cafe, Fitzroy, (03) 9417 Mondays, 7.30pm. New venue: Wickham lllawarra Folk Club, 1st Fri & 3rd Sat, Wol- 3550 (w), http:// www.boite.asn.au Park Hotel, cnr Maitland Rd & Albert St, longong City Diggers, cnr Burelli & Church Wickham. Gold coin don. Clark, Cgorm- Sts, 1300 887 034 illawarrafolkclub.org.au Geelong Folk Club, 2nd. Fri - Coffee House [email protected], poetryatthepub.com Folk- singing & session - Cafe Go! Bellerine Jamberoo St. from 7.30pm. Last Fri - Upstairs at The Newcastle Strath Hunter Dancers. Adults: Session, Jamberoo Pub, Thurs, 7.30pm. Pancake Kitchen, Moorabool St. for songs & Mon 7.30pm, Wallsend Uniting Church. [email protected] session. (03) 5221 1813 or (03) 5261 3443 Juniors: Thurs 4.15pm, Youth 5.30pm. Poet’s Breakfast. Wed. 7.15am. Wollongong Traditional Social Dance Assoc. of Victo- Welsh & Cornish Folk Dancing, Mon. All Writers’ Centre, Town Hall, Corrimal St. ria. Marion Stabb (03) 9439 7100 Saints Anglican Hall, Cromwell St, New Tony Stoddart, [email protected] Victorian Folk Music Club Inc. Victorian Lambton. Beginners and visitors welcome. UOW Folk Club, 12.30pm, Mon & Fridays. [email protected] Folk Music Club inc.GPO Box 2025, Mel- Old timey, bluegrass, Celtic session. Duck bourne, 3001.www.vfmc.org.au The Beehive, as requested. 8 Lewis St, Pond (in front of library), Uni of Wollon- Western Australia Islington. Neville Cunningham 4969 4246. gong. David Harman, [email protected] WA Folk Federation. PO Box 328, Ingle- Nowra Wollongong White Heather Scottish wood, WA, 6932. (08) 9375 9958.www. Balkan and International Folk Dance, Country Dance Group, Mon, 7.30-10pm, St wafolk.iinet.net.au [email protected] Mon, 7.30pm, Cambewarra Hall. Suzi Kraw- Andrew’s Church Hall, Kembla St. All wel- czyk 4446 0569, [email protected] come. Arnold 4228 1986 or Grace 4229 3480 Please let us know if your entry needs to International Folk Dance, Progress Hall, Wongawilli Colonial Dance Club, Bush be changed or updated. cornstalk@folk- Boorawine Tce, Callala Bay. Tues (school Dance, Wed, 8pm, musos & dancers welcome, fednsw.org.au term) 7.15-9pm. 446 6550, [email protected] Com. Hall, West Dapto Rd, Wongawilli. 0409 Celtic Craic. 9 piece acoustic trad band. Tue 57 1788. wongawillicolonialdance.org.au 7.30 Chris 4446 1185, chrislangdon@optusnet.com.au or Mark 4454 5028, nangle@ Focus on Folk shoalhaven.net.au. 6-7pm 1st & 3rd Saturdays Scottish Country Dance Group, Presb. Church Hall, Kinghome St (next to Wool- lies), Wed, 8pm, all welcome. Jill 4421 3570 Shoalhaven Bush and Folk Dancing Club, Friday (school term, 8-10pm, Cambewarra Hall. Margaret 4421 0557. Shoalhaven Acoustic Music Assoc, Bomad- 4 January Paul Jackson with mainly new tracks erry Bowling Club, formal concerts, not 18 January Kate Delaney with her usual eclectic choice always folk, approx quarterly. 4421 3470. of folk music Orange Anyone with a CD they would like to add to the library collection for Orange Dirt Music. 3rd Sat from 3pm. Jam consideration for airplay please forward to: sessions of acoustic folk, jazz, blues etc. rotating around each others’ houses - all wel- Focus on Folk, Post Office Box A182, come. [email protected] 6365 8221 Sydney South 1235.

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SAT 14-16th March 2014 Inaugural Bonnie Doon (Vic) Community Music Festival Serenity…& more Good Music & Good Times! Featuring Geoff Achison, Mal Webb, Richard Purso, Johnny Huckle, Brothers 3, Uprising Bowen & Clare, Ruckas, The Fry Bros Bec Hance, James Norton, Helen Begley The Long & Short of It, Cathy Dobson, Temple of Tunes. Melissa Rose Holt, Fat Max Lexpistols, Grazy & Ames and more! 3 Stages, Walk Ups, Busking, Dancing, Poets Breakfast, Workshops, Markets … For more info check out www.bonniedoonmusicfestival.com Canberra Contras From Rob Mahony: I am writing to fill everyone in on the future of the Canberra Contra Club this year. The most important point is that we have decided not to run the Tuesday night Contra workshops in 2014. There are a number of reasons for the decision, financial pressure and lack of a good hall are probably the key factors. However, do not despair, there will still be week night contra on the first Monday of every month as a part of the Monaro Folk Society Monday night bush dance program at 8pm in All Saints An- glican Church, 9-15 Cowper St, Ainslie. We will still be running the full set of Saturday night dances for 2014 (see list below) and would encourage you to put these in your diaries. Saturdays are always a special evening and the more people the merrier, as always with Contra! We will also be doing another [contra] Dancing in the Park evening, Monday 3rd February, at stage 88, Commonwealth Park. Saturday 8th March, Gypsy Meltdown Contra Dance. Saturday 10th May, Fall Ball Contra Dance. Saturday 12th July, Canberra Contra Club Birthday Bash Dance. Saturday 13th September, Spring Swing Contra Dance. Saturday 15th November, Hey Fever Ball Contra Dance. These will all be held in: Corroboree Park Hall Paterson St, Ainslie.

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