The Bush Music Club was founded in 1954 to collect, publish and popularise Australia’s traditional songs, dances, music, yarns, recitations and folklore and to encourage the composition of a new kind of song - one that was traditional in style but contemporary in theme.
Articles © Bush Music Club Inc unless stated otherwise, photographs © individual photographer.
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| S1 - ANZAC Myth Maker by R. Dale Dengate CD Review - The Blood Red Earth, Australian Poems in Song The First World War - Doug Jenner, Christine Wheeler, Leigh Burkett, Frank Corby, Max Jenner Words by Henry Lawson, John Dengate and Denis Kevans |
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| S2 - review (cont) |
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| S3 - review (cont) |
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| S4. Review |
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| S1 - Australians - songs or poems about thie country and the people who inhabit it. |
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| S2. Australians All, A New Patriotic Air by George Nash, published in the Sydney Star, Feb 1910 melody line only of tune by Theodore Tearne, performed by a choir of 200 schoolchildren. Reported by Sydney Morning Herald, 9th Feb 1910. |
S3 - Score of tune 
S4 - poem - Aboriginal Death-song by Henry Kendall,
published in Sydney Morning Herald, 14th July 1862
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| S1 - History - from the posters removed from Tritton Hall walls during the recent working bees |
S2 - posters & photo 
S3 photo & posters 
S4 - Invitation to upcoming Henry Lawson Concert
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| S1 - Refreshing Memories |
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| S2 - Old (Clive) Palmer Song, by Phyl Lobl, tune - Old Palmer Song, 10,000 Miles Away |
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| S3 - Take Your Bulldozers © John Dengate 1969 updated by Dale Dengate 2016 |
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| S4 - Remember Us? by Kevin Rennie 2015 Time and loneliness of a WW1 Memorial, Nimbin 11/11/2015 |
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(photos © Bob Bolton )
Band mix up - members of various acts join together to
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| 1. Band no. 1 - ?, Kathy O'Grady, Bob McInnis, Polly Clapp |
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| 2. Band no. 1 |
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| 3. Band no. 2 - A couple of Shiny Bums, a few Wongas, & others |
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| 4. Band no. 2 |
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| 5. MC Jane Brownlee, a sound man - Band no. 3 - a Shiny Bum, a few more Wongas, & others |
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| 6. Band no 3 |
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| 7. Band no. 3 |
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| 8. Band no. 3 |
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| 9. Band no. 3 |
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| 10. Band no. 4 - a poet, a Shiny Bum, 3 other musicians & a Wonga |
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| 11. Band no. 5 - 3 Shiny Bums, a Tasmanian traditional fiddler, & 2 bush musicians |
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| 12. Band no. 5 |
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| 13. Band no. 5 |
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| 14. Band no. 5 |
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| 15. Band no 6 - an unaccompanied singer, a poet, 3 musos |
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| 16. Band no. 6 |
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| 17. Band no. 6 |
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| 18. Band no. 6 |
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| 19. Band no. 6 |
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| 20. Band no. 6 |
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| 21. Band no. 6 |
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| 22. Band no. 7 - |
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| 23. Band no. 7 |
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| 24. Band no. 7 |
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| 25. Band no. 7 |
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| 26. Band no. 8 |
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| 27. Band no. 8 |
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| 28. Band no. 8 |
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S1 - Reedy River Review by Dale Dengate
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| S1 - Vale John Dengate © John Warner & Jenni Cole Warner, Aug 2014 |
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| S2 - We Won't See His Like? © John Warner 14/09/13 |
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| S3 - Paean for John Dengate - tune Carrickfergus © John Warner Sept 2013 |
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| S4 - Sixty Years "Bush Music Club" by Mike Waters, 2014 |
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