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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
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| 1. Alex & scrapbook |
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| 3. wedding |
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| 4. Alex with school kids |
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| 5. remote school |
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| 7. ?, Rob Willis, Alex, ?, ? |
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| 8. outdoor concert |
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| 9. mural on a building, |
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| 10. Alex |
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| 11. Ted Egan |
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| 12. Touring |
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| 13. Rambleers, Denis Kevans, Harry Kay, Barbara Lisyak, Alex, Chris Kempster almost cropped out |
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| 14. New Year's Eve, Alex with party blower |
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| 15. Alex |
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| 16. Outback |
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| 17. outback |
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| 18. Alex |
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| 19. Alex |
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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) |
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| 21. Reedy River |
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| 22. Alex in Reedy River |
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| 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) |
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| 24. Alex with children holding didgeridoo |
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| 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. |
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| 26. Alex with puppet |
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28. Bradbury Public School May 1986, see also
newspaper clipping no. 40 |
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| 29. Alex with Tasmanian Devil puppet |
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| 30. actors |
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| 31. actors |
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| 33. Alex with Primary pupils & boomerangs |
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| 34. Folk Musician on a Mission, Nov 2000 |
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| 35. Australiana Show, Sept 1996 |
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36. Gilgai School News (NSW), Alex Hood is a
popular with kids as ever, August 1997 |
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| 37. Little folk off to the theatre, 1994 |
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| 38. Folk Theatre team set to delight Canadian audiences - 1991? |
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| 39. Alex @ Top End Folk Club, 1990 |
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40. Bradbury Public School, Campbelltown Chronicle,
19/5/87, see b&w photo no. 28 |
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| 41. Alex & Annette, c.1987 |
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| 42. Australian Folk Theatre, 1987 |
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| 43. 1985, visits to 23 Bundaberg & District Primary Schools |
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| 44. Newspaper clippings 1979 - 80s |
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45. Concert for Darwin Cyclone Tracy relief,
Newtown, NSW, January 1975 |
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| 46. It's that Hood man again! 1973 |
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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 |
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| 48. Publicity photo |
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49. Aussie anthem competition, Sun-Herald 27/5/73
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| 50. A Pumpkin Paddy Christmas, December 1972 |
