Verandah Music

Vintage video of the Oldtimers in fine form on 1970s television! Lovingly edited by Rob Willis, you can join the  proper  old time da...

Bushranger’s flight by artist S T Gill (1818-1880) published by James J. Blundell & Co. Melbourne Victoria [1856] Followin...

Lunch in the bush, near Warwick, ca.1893. State Library Qld. They were called ‘bait-layers’, ‘babbling brooks’ and much worse by the ...

William Strutt, 'Bushrangers, Victoria, Australia, 1852' (detail), 1887, oil on canvas, The University of Melbourne Art Collection...

Environment SA The song known as ‘A Nautical Yarn’ has always been a bit of a mystery. A parody of the shipwreck songs so popular i...

The ABC has unearthed from its cavernous archives some footage of Con Klippel and all at the Nariel Creek Black and White Folk Fe...

Juneteenth celebration in 1900 at Eastwoods Park. (Austin History Center via NMAAHC) Here’s an intriguing ensemble for the Ghost Musi...

This new CD contains twenty-four tunes of beautiful traditional waltzes, mazurkas, varsoviennas and schottisches.  Collected by D...

Stephen Whiteside reminisces about the 1970s, his encounters with folk music and a couple of its noted singers, as well as their enco...

Here’s a teaser for the other Cracker Night (or one of them, at least). The late and much missed Danny Spooner sings the Guy Fawkes b...