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. 

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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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