Verandah Music

Some modern composed murder ballads in the discussion at Australian Folk and Roots Music Forum: https://m.facebook.com/groups/19721...

Why are there no murder ballads in Australian folksong?   Is it because Australians seem to have killed each other much less frequ...

Not many sleeps to go, so here’s an update on what we’re up to at the National Folk Festival this Easter: Does Your Chewing Gum Los...

Songsters – cheap collections of song lyrics – have a long history, in Australia and elsewhere. They are important sources for knowing ...

Following on from our earlier posts on weather lore, David Howard has an interesting variation of the origins of 'Hughey' (Huie, Hu...

Lisa Elmaleh has been making tintype photographs of Appalachian folk musicians since 2012. This old-style photographic technique...

These kids are playing the ‘diddley bow’ (various spellings), made by stretching a wire across a board and plucking it rhythmicall...

We’ll be back in Canberra at the National this year with a couple of shows: Does Your Chewing Gum Lose its Flavour? Skiffle ...

Eaerliest image of cigar-box instrument, American Civil War Couldn’t believe my eyes. A classic cigar-box ukulele on sale at Aldi f...

Gitano family outside their cave, Granada, c 1900-1915 The diverse peoples once widely known as ‘Gypsies’ are now known as Roma, ...