From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire no. 250 - June 2019 - Obit Bill Berry, poem & Glen Tomasetti's Don't Be too Polite, Girls

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p. 6  Hugs - a poem by Mike Waters 

p. 5.  Vale Bill Berry - We've since learnt Bill was never a paid up member, 
 but he was always around. (Frank Maher & Jamie Carlin)
Alex Hood does not remember everyone who was at the first meeting
in October 1954, but said Bill was likely to have been there. 

S1 - Don't Be To Polite, Girls by Dale Dengate -
Themed Concert to be presented at 2019 National Folk Festival
50 years since Glen Tomasetti's song was written 

S2 - (cont) 

S3 - Poster by Dale 

S4 - Flash Jack from Gundagai - source of 
Glen Tomasetti's song 

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From the Archives - Bill Berry (1934-2019), long time friend of the Bush Music Club

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Bill Berry was a significant presence in the early days.  Alex Hood no longer remembers everyone who was at the first meeting, but supplied a list of very early members who might have been there, & Bill is among them.

Jamie Carlin who joined late 1954, & Frank Maher who joined late1955 say Bill never joined BMC, but that didn't stop him attending BMC events. 

Bill Berry, folksinger - Wikipedia 

NLA Oral Histories -
Bill Berry interviewed by Alex & Annette Hood, April 19, 2004

Bill Berry interviewed by Alex & Annette Hood, April 20, 2004

Bill Berry plays accordion & guitar - recorded by Mark Gregory, 1983

NLA - Australian concert held at the 1973 Moreton Bay Folk Festival at Brisbane, Queensland in Queensland Folk Federation collection [sound recording]

NLA - Sunday night concert at the 8th National Folk Festival at Brisbane, Queensland - edited part of concert in Queensland Folk Federation collection [sound recording]

Undated photo by Bob Bolton of Bill at the Hut - source  Anne & Frank Maher collection, photos 27-29, taken some time after April 1978 when BMC leased Hut 44.

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