Tuesday, 10 December 2024

From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire no. 245, March 2018. ANZAC - Myth Maker

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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 

S2 - review (cont) 

S3 - review (cont) 

S4. Review 

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From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire no. 240, Feb 2017 - Australians

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S1 - Australians  - songs or poems about thie
country and the people who inhabit it.
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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From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire no. 238 - Oct 2016 - History

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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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Sunday, 8 December 2024

From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire no. 236, June 2016, Refreshing Memories

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S1 - Refreshing Memories

S2 - Old (Clive) Palmer Song, by Phyl Lobl, 
tune -
Old Palmer Song, 10,000 Miles Away 

S3 - Take Your Bulldozers © John Dengate 1969 
updated by Dale Dengate 2016

S4 - Remember Us? by Kevin Rennie 2015 
Time and loneliness of a WW1 Memorial, Nimbin 11/11/2015

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Friday, 6 December 2024

From the Archives - Bob Bolton Collection - Albion Park 2003,

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(photos © Bob Bolton )

Band mix up - members of various acts join together to 

1. Band no. 1 -  ?, Kathy O'Grady,  Bob McInnis, Polly Clapp

2. Band no. 1 

3. Band no. 2 - A couple of Shiny Bums, a few Wongas, & others

4. Band no. 2

5. MC Jane Brownlee, a sound man - Band no. 3 -
a Shiny Bum, a few more Wongas, & others

6.  Band no 3  

7. Band no. 3

8. Band no. 3
9. Band no. 3 
10. Band no. 4  - a poet, a Shiny Bum,  3 other musicians & a Wonga

11. Band no. 5 - 3 Shiny Bums, a Tasmanian traditional fiddler, & 2 bush musicians 

12. Band no. 5 

13. Band no. 5 

14. Band no. 5 

15. Band no 6 - an unaccompanied singer, a poet, 3 musos

16. Band no. 6

17. Band no. 6

18. Band no. 6

19. Band no. 6

20. Band no. 6 

21.  Band no. 6 


22. Band no. 7 -  

23. Band no. 7

24.  Band no. 7 

25. Band no. 7 

26. Band no. 8 

27. Band no. 8 

28. Band no. 8

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Sunday, 1 December 2024

From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire - Special 60th Anniversary issue, Dec 2014 - Tributes to John Dengate & poem by Mike Waters

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S1 - Vale John Dengate © John Warner & Jenni Cole Warner,
Aug 2014

S2 - We Won't See His Like? © John Warner 14/09/13

S3 - Paean for John Dengate - tune Carrickfergus
© John Warner Sept 2013



S4 - Sixty Years "Bush Music Club" by Mike Waters, 2014 

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