HOW TO MAKE A CABBAGE-TREE HAT – WITH SUE BRIAN

Boater-style cabbage-tree hat, MAAS

Sue Brian divulges all the secrets of this traditional craft – along with some fascinating yarns about Norfolk Island -  on the Verandah Music Youtube channel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afe-GG44F4c

MANY VERANDAHS ...

The current edition of the National Library’s magazine, Unbound, holds a feast of verandah music:

Salvatore Rossano writes about Italian traditions in Australia https://www.nla.gov.au/unbound/sonu-songs-from-the-homeland

Salvatore Rossano, Angelo and Dora Marchese, Melbourne, 2017

Barry York writes on the life and achievements of the late Australian bluesman, Peter Gelling https://www.nla.gov.au/unbound/if-it-wasnt-for-the-blues

 

Barry York, Peter Gelling and Blues Band Blind Freddy, 1995

Jennifer Gall looks at domestic music in colonial house museums

https://www.nla.gov.au/unbound/listening-to-the-past

J.R.B., Mary Cunningham, Griselda Dorothy Cunningham, T.J., Unity Alexandra Cunningham, A.C. and Alexander William Cunningham, Tuggeranong, between 1910 and 1914.


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MEMORIES OF COLIN DRYDEN

 

Colin Dryden by Daniel Kelly

Some readers of this blog will remember the enigmatic Colin Dryden from the early years of the Sydney and Melbourne folk scenes. Colin was a prodigiously talented guitarist and singer, equally adept at traditional and contemporary British folk, as well as blues. He was later a member of the experimental fusion band, Extradition.

Yass songwriter and singer, Daniel Kelly, has a research and recording project going on Colin’s life and legacy. You can read all about it, starting at http://www.folklounge.org/2019/04/the-factory-lad-part-1/

If you have any memories, or better yet, recordings, of Colin in action, Daniel would love to hear from you as he winds up the project with a planned CD of his own interpretations of Colin Dryden’s core repertoire.