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.
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(Photos © Sandra Nixon)
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| 2. music from Wongawilli? |
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| 3. Bob Bolton planning a shot |
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| 11. Dot Dawson (pale blue gown), Mike (red trousers) |
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| 15. Don Richmond & Clare Stoneham |
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| 16. Clare Stoneham & Don Richmond |
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| 17. Collector |
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| 18. Collector |
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| 19. Collector |
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| 20. Late night session - Mike Martin, Ali Barber?, Alan Musgrove, ?, Jane Brownlee |
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| 1. Margaret Walters, |
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| 2. Margaret Walters, |
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| 3. Margaret Walters, |
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| 4. ?, Margaret Walters, ? |
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| 5. ?, Margaret Walters |
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| 6. ?, Margaret Walters |
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| 7. Brian Peters |
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| 8. Brian Peters |
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| 9. Brian Peters |
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| 10. Brian Peters |
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| 11. Brian Peters |
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| 12. Brian Peters |
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| 13. Brian Peters |
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| 14. Brian Peters |
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| 15. John Dengate |
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| 16. John Dengate |
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| 17. John Dengate |
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foolscap page, undated
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(Photos © Bob Bolton)
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| 1. Bob McInnis, Sam de Santi, Dave de Santi |
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| 2. Bob McInnis, Sam de Santi, Dave de Santi |
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| 3. Bob McInnis, Sam de Santi |
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| 4. Interview with WIN TV |
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| 5. Sam de Santi |
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| 6. Sam de Santi |
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| 7. Wongawilli - Tania De Santi, Jane Brownlee, Sam & Dave de Santi |
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| 8. Sam with Auntie Jane |
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| 9. Interview |
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| 10. Wongawilli - Reg & Graham Murray, Chloe Roweth, Tania de Santi, Jason Roweth, Jane Brownlee, Dave de Santi |
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| 11. Sam de Santi |
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| 12. Tania & Sam de Santi |
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| 13. Vivienne Sawyer, poet |
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| 14. Gay Charmers, ?, Stewie & Peter Ellis |
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| 15. Collector - Roger Montgomery, Jim McWhinnie, Chloe & Jason Roweth, Bill Browne & Mike Martin singing The Sheepwasher's Lament (Chloe Roweth, 6/2/26) |
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| 16. Washboard player |
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| 17. Dave de Santi with junior fiddlers |
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| 18. Junior fiddlers |
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| 19. Junior fiddlers |
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| 20. Sisters Tania de Santi & Jane Brownlee |
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| 21. Vivienne Sawyer with junior poets |
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| 22. Ball |
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| 23. Ball |
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| 24. Wongawilli dancers |
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