Saturday 31 December 2022

Bob Bolton Collection - St Albans Folk Festival, 13-14 May 2000

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all photos © Bob Bolton

1. 00051400  Session - Alison Boyd back to camera




2. 00051401    Concert in church

3. 00051404   Tursacan  - Mark Campbell on percussion,
Alison Cone on guitar

4. 00051406    Three Mudcatters - Helen, Ken Robertson (Spider Tom), Alison Boyd (Alison), & Bob Bolton 

5.  00051407  fire!

6. 00051408  The Barn

7.  00051409  concert in The Barn

8.  00051410  Session, Dot Roberts with bass

9.   00051412  Session

10. 00051413  Dance in the Hall with Springtide?  Chris Wheeler, 
Greg Wilson, ?, Jackie Luke 

11. 00051414   Dance  

12. 00051415   Dance 

13. 00051416   Jackie Luke, Greg Wilson, & Chris Wheeler

14.  00051420   concert at The Pickled Wombat cafe

15.   00051421  Brian Hungerford at The Pickled Wombat 

16.   00051422  Session at the Pickled Wombat 

17.   00051424   Harpist 

18. Open air session 


19.  0005140  

19.  00051426    Open air session

20.   00051427 Open air concert 

21.   00051438  Concert 

22.  00051429  Audience

23.   00051430   Sound

24.  00051432   Concert

25.  00051435   John Dengate

26.  00051436  John Dengate

27. 00051437   John Dengate

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Wednesday 21 December 2022

Alex & Annette Hood collection - Alex's scrapbooks - part 1

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Alex's scrapbooks, part 2, images 51-101

In 1954 Alex joined the cast of the musical Reedy River and subsequently performed with The Bushwhackers, (founders of the Bush Music Club) and when they broke up in 1957, with the Rambleers. From the late 1950s onwards he became a travelling musician, singing and playing a variety of instruments at clubs, pubs and theatres, and later at schools and on radio and television. Alex & Annette have have taken their Australian Folk Theatre to thousands of schools over the decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Hood

1. Alex & scrapbook
3. wedding
4. Alex with school kids
5. remote school
6.
7. ?, Rob Willis, Alex, ?, ?
8. outdoor concert
9. mural on a building,
10. Alex
11. Ted Egan
12. Touring
13. Rambleers, Denis Kevans, Harry Kay, Barbara Lisyak, Alex, Chris Kempster almost cropped out
14. New Year's Eve, Alex with party blower
15. Alex
16. Outback
17. outback
18. Alex
19. Alex
20. BMC picnic - back - Nancy Wakefield, Stan Wakefield (mouth organ), Alex Hood (bones) Alex can't remember the fellow next to him, knows him! Harry Glendenning standing (accordion)
Front left - Gay Scott, Cecil Grivas (amongst children), Brian Loughlin (lying down), Alan Scott behind, Laurie Morris (violin), 3 Kane Sisters - Ollie (squeeze box), John Meredith next to Geoff Way (Annette, email February 2022)
21. Reedy River
22. Alex in Reedy River
23. caption for photo 22. In April 1954 New Theatre moved from 167 Castlereagh St to Waterside Workers Federation building at 60 Sussex St & stayed there until 1963. (The New Theatre - the people, plays and politics behind Australia's radical theatre, ed. by Lisa Milner, 2022, p. 137)
24. Alex with children holding didgeridoo
25. crop of press photograph of Bushwhackers concert 1955. Original photo, image 14. Concert at Sydney Cricket Ground for Far West Scheme or Smith Family (sources differ), entertaining 5000 kids - without amplification. Left to right, back - Jack Barrie's arm, Alex Hood - bones, Alan Scott - nose flute, Brian Loughlin - lagerphone, front - John Meredith - accordion, Chris Kempster - guitar, Harry Kay - mouth organ.
26. Alex with puppet
27.
28. Bradbury Public School May 1986, see also
newspaper clipping no. 40
29. Alex with Tasmanian Devil puppet
30. actors
31. actors
32.
33. Alex with Primary pupils & boomerangs
34. Folk Musician on a Mission, Nov 2000
35. Australiana Show, Sept 1996
36. Gilgai School News (NSW), Alex Hood is a
popular with kids as ever, August 1997
37. Little folk off to the theatre, 1994
38. Folk Theatre team set to delight Canadian audiences - 1991?
39. Alex @ Top End Folk Club, 1990
40. Bradbury Public School, Campbelltown Chronicle,
19/5/87, see b&w photo no. 28
41. Alex & Annette, c.1987
42. Australian Folk Theatre, 1987
43. 1985, visits to 23 Bundaberg & District Primary Schools
44. Newspaper clippings 1979 - 80s
45. Concert for Darwin Cyclone Tracy relief,
Newtown, NSW, January 1975
46. It's that Hood man again! 1973
47. Arts Council of NSW presents for Infants & Primary Schools
Alex Hood - Balladeer, Storyteller, Folklorist in a programme of
Australian Folk Songs, Bush Ballads and Legends, 1970s
48. Publicity photo
49. Aussie anthem competition, Sun-Herald 27/5/73
50. A Pumpkin Paddy Christmas, December 1972