Verandah Music

Charlie Hammond (1870-1953)  Sick Stockrider , 1905   One of the many fascinating aspects of engaging with folklore is researching the histo...

  Lessja Farrow and Lyudmyla Koziy, Tasmania     Miklós Both, founder of the Polyphony Project, is on a mission: to collect folk music in Uk...

We’re no longer ‘up a gum tree’ on the ‘Gum Tree Canoe’. Stephen Whiteside has given us permission to repost the surprising results of his r...

Chloë and Jason Roweth are a multitalented couple of singers, instrumentalists, reciters and songwriters. They have been interpreting tradi...

  What tunes did they play and how did they sound? A serious-looking band from c. 1885 at the Glasgow Arms Hotel in Carrington, NSW. Concert...

ABC The History Listen features African-American banjo man Hosea Easton. Hosea toured with minstrel bands in the late nineteenth century an...

  Here’s a follow-up to our previous posts on the history of the harmonica in Australia. Ray Grieve, author of  A Band in a Waistcoat Pocke...

Sally Sloane Rob Willis pulls together some history, folklore and personal experience to almost answer this question – Did old time musician...

Reviewed by  Tony Smith 2021  This is a hugely enjoyable album. There is plenty of variety in the 27 tracks – 12 of which pair a couple of t...

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...