Sounds Like Australia

 https://www.outbackmag.com.au/sounds-like-australia/

Article about the collecting odyssey of Rob and Ollie Willis in Outback magazine. We featured this work in a previous post at

 https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/2138391645827947224/2607229772787880325

And there is more information at

https://verandahmusic.blogspot.com/p/the-willis-collection-of-life-stories.html

VERANDAH DANCES WITH THE BRUTONS

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).

https://youtu.be/QBHEgQtejuo  

Verandah Music at Cygnet 2016

Rob, Olya and Graham fronted a concert at the 2016 Cygnet Folk Festival on January 10. Verandah Music Tassie Style also featured Edie Dawson, Stuart Graham and Julie Edwards (with Edie), Chloe and Jason Roweth, Fred Pribac, Christina Mimmocchi, Jacqui Bradley, Ronnie and Dyan Summers, David Wanless and Cathy Huthinson (dancers) and Kerrie Maguire. 

 The day before at the festival, together with Maureen Seal, we presented a workshop on Folklore and Family History.