Wednesday 21 December 2022

Alex & Annette Hood collection - Alex's scrapbooks - part 2

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Alex's scrapbooks, part 1 - images 1-50

In 1954 Alex joined the cast of the musical Reedy River and he 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.

In 1954 while the Queen was visiting Australia, Alex was called up for Nasho (National Service) and was part of the Guard of Honour when she came ashore in Sydney at the steps at Bennelong Point - see pics. 96-98. The Opera house as later built on that site. 

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

51. A Pied Piper and pumpkins, Woman's Day, Jan 18, 1971
52. A Pumpkin Paddy Christmas, 1970?
53. Wanted Chaffbag Charlie - The Wallaby Track, ABC radio
54. Draft poster - Alex Hood presents Australian Folk
Songs Ballads and Legends assisted by Brian Godden
55. Ballad in the Bush - Courier Mail, 21/7/70.
56. Advancetown (Qld) Folk Song Festival, 25-26 Jan, 1971
57. The Prodigal Sons (trio) c.1969, Alex, Larry King & ?
58. Folk Singers in Wagga seeking our folklore,
Daily Advertiser, Oct 15, 1968
59. The Prodigal Sons, Alex & Larry King, 1967
60. Folk Concert, Newcastle, Alex & Paul Marks, Tues 28/7/1964
61. The First Hundred Years of Song and Legend, 1964
62. New Lost City Ramblers tour, 1965
63. New Lost City Ramblers tour, 1965 - Lenore Somerset,
Sean and Sonia, Alex Hood
64. New Lost City Ramblers tour, 1965 - Paul Marks,
Wesley Three, Margaret Kitamura
65. Alex Hood - first solo concert in Sydney 1965
66. Alex Hood presents Songs & Legends from The First
Hundred Years
, 6 March 1965. (first solo concert in Sydney)
67. Basic Wage Rally, Wynyard Park, Graeme Bell & his all-stars,
Alex Hood, Thurs 27th Feb, 1964
68. Banjo brings our folklore back to life.
Daily Telegraph, Fri June 19, 1964.
Australian Folk Art Centre, Woollahra, 1964
69. Launch of John Manifold's Who Wrote the Ballads,
songs by Marion Henderson & Alex Hood, May 25, 1964
70. Folk Songs in The Pigalle - Parramatta's Folk Centre, 22nd May 1964
71. Nowra, Alex Hood & Paul Marks, Aug 13, 1963
72. Alex Hood at Anzac House with Australian Folk Songs
and Legends, July 31, 1963
73. The Troubador presents a Folksinging Concert 1963
74. Grenfell Henry Lawson Festival 1961 - Souvenir Program
75. Getting our folk songs down on tape.
Daily Telegraph, Jan 28, 1956
76. Alex Hood Productions. Alex and Annette Hood
Beyond the Black Stump, late 90s?
77. Banners & puppets made by Annette
78. School show
79. Annette & Alex with puppets
80. Backdrops & puppets
81. Puppets & instruments
82. Bushwhacked into making music his life -
The Senior, April 2012
83. Hoods Australian Folk Theatre
84. Alex & Annette
85. Show at a school
86. Portrait of Annette
87. Alex & his assistants
88. Music on a beach
89. Alex with loose photos
90. Burketown Pub, Gulf Country & scenery
91. Gulf country
92. Gulf country
93. Gulf country?
94. Hoods Travelling Show
95. Alex on tour
96. Guard of Honour for the Queen's visit to Sydney, 1954
97. Alex
98. Training Battalion
99. Alex with parents & sister, c.1936/37
100. Alex Hood & Larry King at Advancetown, Qld - (Alex & Annette Hood Slide collection) see image no. 56 for poster
101. Alex Hood & Larry King touring South Coast Schools, 1968 (WIN TV collection)

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