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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Thursday 12 May 2016
Duke's Place - Australian songs in concert & session with Ten Quid Poms, Friday 8th July, 2016
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