Verandah Music

Near Young, NSW Here’s a post from Rob about the drought devastating large parts of rural Australia, and a related project on the fol...

Lola Wright 1926 - 2018 We said our goodbyes to Lola Wright at the Naranderra cemetery in June 2018. She had organised the ...

Here's the latest on the Verandah Music Youtube channel ... In 1963 the famous American folksinger, Pete Seeger, visited Austr...

For a selection of videos and films of traditional Australian music, visit our Youtube channel . This is a colletion of rare, vintage and ot...

Our old mate Ed Sorenson again provides some eyewitness insight into the way bush folk made and played their own music in the ninet...

From Stan Hugill's Shanties from the Seven Seas In the days of sail, when sailors signed on to a voyage they were paid a month...

Here’s another item on bush music. The blokes in this drawing were celebrating New Year’s Eve, sometime around the 1890s. The pictu...

Here’s another in our  Verandah Music    posts on home-made music. The family band described in this article from 1943 is similar to ...

Songster of the Ethiopian Serenaders (USA) Here’s an interesting snippet from 1850, indicating the early presence of blackface mi...

A 'bush band' c. 1905, SLQ The first mention of a ‘bush band’ seems to be in the surprising context of a visit by the Duke ...