Verandah Music

Boater-style cabbage-tree hat, MAAS Sue Brian divulges all the secrets of this traditional craft – along with some fascinating yar...

The current edition of the National Library’s magazine,  Unbound , holds a feast of verandah music: Salvatore Rossano writes about Italia...

  Colin Dryden by Daniel Kelly Some readers of this blog will remember the enigmatic Colin Dryden from the early years of the Sydne...

Gay Charmers at Jamberoo In 2001, the Jamberoo Folk Festival featured two concerts by traditional performers, including Bill Case, Lola...

  Here’s a reply to the Gundagai post, from Rob Willis: Buried within 25 metres of each other in the Forbes cemetery are the re...

  The tucker box statue before the snappy recent one, photographed in 1926 The small town on the Murrumbidgee River has always bee...

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 ...

Broken Hill's famous local delicacy is a classic example of folklore in action. In this case it's a traditional recipe that com...

William Strutt (English, 1825–1915) Bushrangers, Victoria, Australia, 1852, 1887 What are your favourites? Here’s my list: Jack D...

A while back I posted on the old Boomerang songsters and instruments, especially harmonicas (‘tin sandwich’, ‘mouth organ’, ‘harp’...