SHARING THE HARVEST – THE JAMBEROO RECORDINGS NOW ONLINE

Gay Charmers at Jamberoo

In 2001, the Jamberoo Folk Festival featured two concerts by traditional performers, including Bill Case, Lola Wright, Eileen McCoy and many more. Long sleeping in the National Library’s Oral History and Folklore Collection, the full recordings, together with interviews and talks by Edgar Waters, Mark Cranfield and Robyn Holmes are now available online at

https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1664097

Edgar Waters, Mark Cranfield and Robyn Holmes, National Library of Australia

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 This will take you to a user agreement, at the bottom of which is a green ‘I accept’ button, click that and it takes you straight to the list of the sessions, starting with the first one. Just click on the arrow at the right-hand side of each item to hear the riches within.

Bill Case and Rob Willis

GAY CHARMERS STILL CHARMING AT LAKE CHARM

Gay Charmers at Yarrawalla, 1989

"You don't have to be a Rhodes scholar to sit down and play a piano or a banjo." That was Stewie Simms, stalwart piano player of the legendary Gay Charmers, the last continuing old time dance band in the country. In April, they celebrated sixty-plus years of playing for dances, deb balls and any other event where toe-tapping tunes were needed. Read all about it right here…, courtesy of the Gannawarra Times.

See also the Peter Ellis archive.