Verandah Music

Interesting article by Toner Quinn on the distinctive communal nature of Irish traditional music, probably also applies to traditional music...

  Hairyman from Tasmania being interviewed by Rob Willis and Graham Seal in the Fitzroy. Hairyman talked about his life, philosophy, folk fe...

  From Australia in Pictures, https://www.facebook.com/ausinpictures/ Here's an intriguingly rare snap of a British custom in Hobart dur...

                                           Unknown band at Elisha William Gale Mine, Hill End?, NSW, c. 1860 We've had a selection of gh...

Here’s a tenth birthday present from Verandah Music, courtesy of Rob Willis: The late Les Bruton was a versatile musician playing fiddle, ac...

This year, Verandah Music is ten years old. We’ve put up around 150 posts and had around forty-six thousand visitors from Australia and arou...

  Cigarette cards were used by manufacturers to promote their products. They were attractive mini-art works that came with a pack of 'ci...

Further to our last post on the 'tingaling', etc., here's an item from National Folk of 1967. The late folklorist and everythin...

Now and then some information on community music making pops up in archives. This quote is from the collection of oral history in the Subiac...

The board at Burrawang shed, near Forbes An informative article in The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser of 5 August 1899 gives a ...