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Sideshow Alley at the 144th Wagga Wagga Show , 2008 (Bidgee, CC 3.0)   The people who travel from show to show, in city and country, are a d...

  The Schaefer Band We haven’t published CD/DVD reviews on  Verandah Music , mainly because there are other outlets for these important noti...

Crossing the Line: Songs of the Southern Ocean Forty Degrees  South  Reviewed by Tony Smith  © 2021 i   Shanties and other sea songs are enj...

                      McFarlane & Erskine, Bushrangers attack a gold escort, lithograph, 1879, NLA Here’s a ‘boy’s own’ account of the c...

Musician and jig doller, Tony Smith, writes about the intriguing folk objects known as ‘jig dolls’, limberjacks’ or ‘ marionettes a la planc...

  Kangaroo hunting. No. 3, The death by S.T Gill in 1858. Picture: National Library of Australia     Here’s a little ditty from 1867 that re...

Tom Roberts, Bailed Up!, 1895. Art gallery of NSW . Can we track down the earliest bush ballad?   This characteristic genre of Australian fo...

This time in the Yarns of Oz we’re talking about urban legends, memes, factoids and conspiracy theories – all true, of course.   Remember –...

  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...