Duke's Place - Australian songs in concert & session with Ten Quid Poms, Friday 8th July, 2016

7.30 for 8pm start

Ten Quid Poms are Robin Connaughton & John Warner, performers and songwriters of contemporary and traditional music. Witty incisive commentators on industrial, political and social issues. Ten Quid migrants


Robin is an engaging, witty and enthusiastic (and modest) musician, folk singer, songwriter, teller of appalling jokes and raconteur. Add to this having been an Australian debating champion and you can see why Dermott Ryder once said "Robin is something of a wordsmith.” He is also a skilled instrument maker and repairer. Robin has written a number of political and industrial songs.

John has developed an extensive wide ranging repertoire, both personally and in conjunction with other singers, especially Margaret Walters and The Roaring Forties. He has a powerful singing style, with fine harmonies, and sings both acapella and accompanying himself on a dazzling array of instruments. John writes incisive, biting and wicked songs about life, social change, politics and pirates. Major works include the story of Yarri of Wiradjuri, the indigenous hero of the 1852 Gundagai flood, and songs about Coal Creek in Victoria. 

John and Robin Connaughton collaborated in the song cycle We Made the Steel based on Robin’s first-hand experience of working in the Wollongong and Newcastle steel industry in the 1960s & 70s. Both Yarri of Wirradjuri and We Made the Steel have been recorded by The Roaring Forties.

Bush Music Club
Tritton Hall
Hut 44 Addison Road Centre
142 Addison Rd, Marrickville

Map of Addison Road Centre     http://www.arcco.org.au/contact/
Door opens 7.30 for 8pm start. Session 10.00-11.30pm
BYO songs
Cost - $10
Bring something to drink & a plate for supper
Enquiries - Sandra 9358 4886

Duke's place, named after our honoured early member Harold 'Duke' Tritton (1886-1965), is the place to go once a month for a great night of Australian songs in concert and session. Duke was a powerful singer who supplied BMC with many songs he had learnt in his younger days while working as a shearer and at other bush jobs. He was also a songwriter and poet giving us songs that have entered the tradition such as Sandy Hollow Line and Shearing in the Bar. 

 

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Duke's Place - Australian songs in concert & session with Jim Low, Friday 10th June, 2016

7.30 for 8pm start

Jim will be singing songs from his latest CD Journey's End



About Jim 

I live in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia and have done so for thirty years. From childhood I have maintained a deep interest in, and love of, Australian history. I have written books and articles, and developed school learning materials on Australian themes.

My interest in Australia has also been expressed in many of the songs I have written. My song writing has been combined with many and varied performing opportunities.

I have performed at restaurants, concerts and festivals and my music has been played on ABC radio. Each year I continue to enjoy the opportunities of travelling to Australian places and listening to, and documenting, the stories of the people who live there.

About the CD



I always appreciate having somewhere to return to at the end of a journey. That place is called 'home' and for me that happens to be in the Blue Mountains NSW. The memories gathered from the places visited, the people met and the new things discovered sooner or later start to inhabit my mind, inspiring thoughts and ideas that sometimes then develop into songs. And the songs on this new CD have travelled these various pathways. Some began on the journey, some were finished before the journey ended and some were ideas that needed more time to develop when the journey was long over.

Bush Music Club
Tritton Hall
Hut 44 Addison Road Centre
142 Addison Rd, Marrickville

 

Map of Addison Road Centre     http://www.arcco.org.au/contact/
Door opens 7.30 for 8pm start. Session 10.00-11.30pm
BYO songs
Cost - $10
Bring something to drink & a plate for supper
Enquiries - Sandra 9358 4886

Duke's place, named after our honoured early member Harold 'Duke' Tritton (1886-1965), is the place to go once a month for a great night of Australian songs in concert and session. Duke was a powerful singer who supplied BMC with many songs he had learnt in his younger days while working as a shearer and at other bush jobs. He was also a songwriter and poet giving us songs that have entered the tradition such as Sandy Hollow Line and Shearing in the Bar.




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