Verandah Music

  Get your clogs on! Here are some fascinating productions and resources from Heather Blasdale-Clarke and  the Early Colonial Dance folk:   ...

  Readers will recall our post on the work of Joanne Tapiolis about Italian prisoners of war in Australia during World War 2. Here are some...

 Interviewing Cathy Hutchinson, Tasmania, 2018 Rob and Olya Willis have been collecting oral history and folklore around the country for man...

One of the ‘Rats of Tobruk’, Walter ‘Jack’ Darnley, cheered himself and his mates up during the battle of Tobruk with this trench-made maste...

  Sunday 21 February at 2pm  by Zoom . Bruce Watson will give a presentation about the 1903 recordings of Fanny Cochrane Smith. These are am...

Zambian kids playing up a storm on their homemade instruments at https://www.themusicman.uk/category/location/africa/ Plus lots of other imp...

  Australians, along with troops of other nationalities, were imprisoned in Singapore’s Changi prison during World War 2. A lot of self-made...

Swaggie c 1900, NSW Government Printer   Who was Handkerchief Jones? And why did Tom Doyle piss on the olives? Find out all about it as we f...

Ruth Hazleton and Judy McKinty are running a great children's folklore project at PANDEMIC PLAY .  The project asks kids, teens, parents...

Why did some bushrangers become folk heroes and why were they feared by the forces of authority? We take a look at and a listen to some of t...