Verandah Music

    The new Bush Traditions website is at  https://www.bushtraditions.org/  with a link to Australian Social Dance and Music an organisation...

Bluey Brink the shearer was ' A devil for work and a devil for drink', according to the well-known song/recitation. Turns out that t...

Here’s a taste of how they sing and play around Bourke, NSW.  Aunty Dawn plays guitar and sings in the Australian country style. One the fir...

  The occupational hero of nineteenth and early twentieth-century Australian shearers was the fabled 'Crooked Mick'. Mick was a supe...

Bruce Watson has released his outstanding commemoration to those whose legacy is the basis of the Australian folk scene. Below is Bruce'...

  Tony Smith as written a piece on music making as portrayed in Eve Langley's classic novel, The Pea-Pickers (1942). The focus is on th...

On 11 February 1949 Brisbane’s Courier-Mail newspaper reported that: 'The Foggy, Foggy, Dew' has been banned by the Australian Broad...

Shearing the Rams, Tom Roberts Large collection of Sheet Music and Publications Information about Collectors and Informants of bush music at...

  Patrick Tayleur in later life at the New York World's Fair in 1940, where he displayed his model sailing ships. He walked from Brisban...

This photograph was taken in 1895 on Western Australia’s Rottnest Island (Wadjemup).  Pat Baird on 5-string banjo was a lighthouse keeper on...