The Bush Music Club was founded in 1954 to collect, publish and popularise Australia’s traditional songs, dances, music, yarns, recitations and folklore and to encourage the composition of a new kind of song - one that was traditional in style but contemporary in theme.
Articles © Bush Music Club Inc unless stated otherwise, photographs © individual photographer.
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Our first folksong, by John Meredith. Originally published in Mulga Wire no. 17, February 1980
Wikipedia on Marlbrouck, S'en Va Ten Guerre 
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Four 1919 contributions from TROVE - a poem about the 1919 Seaman's Union Strike, a patriotic poem dedicated to Lieut.-General Sir W.R. Birdwood, one of Arthur Waley's Chinese poems, & an untitled poem about a city girl in the bush.
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The lagerphone family 
The Lagerphone's German relative, the Teufelsgeige 
Lyrics - 5603, or Death, Where is thy Sting? by Wilfred C. Knight 
CD Review - Wongawilli's Australia Street
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| CD Review - The Life of Brine by the Roaring Forties |
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| Review - Australia's Lost Folk Songs by Keith McKenry |
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| Those old tin sheds echoed in "C" - Wikipedia |
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| Tails from the Past |
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| A Poem from the Past by John Meredith |
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| The Sandy Hollow Line, by Duke Tritton |
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| Too Many Songs About Shearers by far, Vol. 1 by Chloe & Jason Roweth |
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NOTE - the template was not updated - this issue of Singabout came from June 2017 Mulga Wire.
From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire 243 - 12th National Folklore Conference (part 2)
Report on Don & Sue Brian's Folk History Tour of Norfolk Island |
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Photos © Bob Bolton
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2 reports by Dale Dengate -
From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire 242, June 2017 - Convict Musicians, A Report from the 12th National Folklore Conference (part 1)
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| Poem - The Shearer's Wife by Louis Essen, 1910 |
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| 1. Cover of the first Singabout, Summer 1956 |
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| 2. Our first Singabut night (fundraising concert to pay for next the issue!) |
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| 3. Stan Wakefield's The Rueful Rabbit |
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| 4. Winner of the 2016 Dale & John Dengate Parody Competition, Steve Wilson's Hello Malcolm Turnbull |
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