Verandah Music

Bob Bolton Collection, Bush Music Club Here are some rare film clips of traditional Australian concertina players recorded by Rob Willis wh...

Renowned Australian folk musician and singer Dave de Hugard has been singing and researching ‘ Waltzing Matilda ’, in one version or anothe...

THE PHILIP ASHTON VIDEO COLLECTION Dave Mathias Philip Ashton has been recording, photographing and videoing the stories of Australia for ma...

  The Flying Pieman - William Francis King Tony Smith has been researching colonial Sydney's street performers - forerunners of today...

Politics in ballad form – Stockwell and the 1975 Dismissal Reviewed by Tony Smith Whitlam speaking after the dissolution of parliament, 1975...

    The new Bush Traditions website is at  https://www.bushtraditions.org/  with a link to Australian Social Dance and Music an organisation...

Bluey Brink the shearer was ' A devil for work and a devil for drink', according to the well-known song/recitation. Turns out that t...

Here’s a taste of how they sing and play around Bourke, NSW.  Aunty Dawn plays guitar and sings in the Australian country style. One the fir...

  The occupational hero of nineteenth and early twentieth-century Australian shearers was the fabled 'Crooked Mick'. Mick was a supe...

Bruce Watson has released his outstanding commemoration to those whose legacy is the basis of the Australian folk scene. Below is Bruce'...