Here’s a tenth birthday present from Verandah Music, courtesy of Rob Willis:
The late Les Bruton was a versatile musician playing fiddle, accordion and a number of other instruments. His wife, June, learnt slide guitar at an early age and accompanied Les, it was indeed a unique and wonderful sound. Les learnt many of his dance tunes from older players, including his Uncle Charlie and he tells us the story of Uncle Charlie and the Verandah dances. June and Les play us one of Uncle Charlie's tunes, a Schottische. We recorded the Brutons for the National Library of Australia and they are online at Youtube here (double click if it doesn’t work first time and follow the redirect prompt – we don’t know why, either).