From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire no.212 - Oct 2012 - A CD review, a book review, a song & Henry Lawson

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p. 8 - Book Review - To Hell and High Water: Walking 
in the Footsteps of Henry Lawson, by Gregory Brian

P. 10 - Poem - Grey Nomads Today, by Gail Copley 

p. 7 - CD Review - Rain the Mountain - Songs of Henry Lawson
by Christine Wheeler - review by Margaret Walters .

S1 - Lawson & 19th century bush dances 

S2 - Freedom on the Wallaby 
a poem and song by Henry Lawson

S3 - Australia's on the Wallaby/Freedom's on theWallaby  
Source - Singabut 1(2), 1956

S4 - Two views of 19th Century "Bush Dances"
1870 (The Dance in the Woolshed)
& 1890 (Men's Hut Dance)

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From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire no. 221, Feb 2014 - The Old Black Piano & Book review

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p. 5.  The Old Black Piano by Ralph Pride  -
dedicated to the Old Black Piano that has lived for years in Hut 44.

S1 - Book Review - Born in  Tent: How Camping Makes
us Australian by Bill Garner, 2013

S2 - (cont) 

S3 - (cont) 

S4 - (concluded)

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From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire no. 211, June 2012 - Centuries of Poetry & Songs for Freedom and Justice in Australia & Dale Dengate's 60th Anniversary banner

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Our 1969 banner made by Dale Dengate 

Conservation & repair of Dale's 1969 banner

Page 9 - The Banner Project 

S1 -  Centuries of Poetry & Songs for Freedom and Justice in Australia
Publication of  Songs, Poems, Satire and Shouts all the way 

S2 - Privatising Power from 
Songs, Poems, Satire and Shouts all the way 

 

 

S3 - Integrate from 
Songs, Poems, Satire and Shouts all the way 

S4 - Frank the Poet Bicentenary by Dale Dengate 

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From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire no. 201 - April 2012 - Folkloric ramblings ...

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S1 - Folkloric ramblings - parody of Morton Bay, 
CD review of Alan Musgrove & friends
& Colonial currency  

S2 - The Cockie's Lament
(aka Mortein Song or The Cockroach Song)
words -  Doug Richardson 
Tune - Morton Bay (Youghal Harbour) 

S3 - That Old Time  Feeling - 22 Australian  Old Time
Instrumentals  - review by Dale Dengate 

S4 - The Holey Dollar 

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From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire no. 205, June 2011 - CD reviews

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S1 - CD reviews 

S2 - Chloe & Jason Roweth -
Sing Us Another One! Live at Humph Hall

S3 - Singing the South - Phyl Lobl's
Songline-Timeline of the Illawarra
CD & book

S4 - Twice Reflected Sun by Nancy Kerr & James Fagan 

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From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire no. 198, April 2010 - The Anglo Concertina - A Social History Volumes 1 & 2, by Dan Worrall + Mulga Wire no. 212 - CD-Rom of music for these books

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S1 -  The Anglo Concertina  - A Social History
Volumes 1 & 2, by Dan Worrall

S2 - cont.

S3 - Contents list 

S4 

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P. 13 Mulga Wire no. 212, Oct 12 - 
House Dance : Dance Music played on the Anglo-German
concertina by musicians of the House Dance era. 
MTCD251 CR-ROM Musical Traditions Records

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From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire no. 197, Feb 2010 - Songs of Don Henderson

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S1 - Songs of Don Henderson 

S2 - It's On - from "A Quiet Century" Don's 1994 songbook

S3 - It's on  - from "A Quiet Century" Don's 1994 songbook

S4 - Review of The Songs of Don Henderson, 2-CD set

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From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire no.188, Aug 2008 - Railway Songbook Project On The Rails plus Book of New Dances from Mike Waters

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1. S1  Railway Songbook Project On The Rails
plus Book of New Dances from Mike Waters

2.  S2 - Navvy on the Line  - source Tom Blackman Jr, Mudgee

3.  S3 - Train to Lidcombe by John Dengate 

4. S4 - The Country Round Up  by Mike Waters  2008

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From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire no. 187, June 2008 & 186, April 2008 - The Bulletin + Review of Going to the Barndance by No Such Thing

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1. Mulga Wire no. 186, April 2008
RIP - The Bulletin, 1880-2008 "The Bushman's Bible"

2. Mulga Wire no. 187,  June 2008 - The Bulletin by Dick Thrussell

3.  S1 -Thoughts from the passing of The Bulletin
and a review of Just Traditionally Played Music 

4. S2 - The Man with Rubber Pedals by McG, as recorded in
"The Old Bulletin Book of Verse" 
The best Verses from The Bulletin, 1880-1901

5.  S3 - The Man with  Rubber Pedals (cont) 

6. Review - Going to the Barndance : No Such Thing 

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From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire no. 245, March 2018. ANZAC - Myth Maker

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S1 - ANZAC Myth Maker by R. Dale Dengate 
CD Review - The Blood Red Earth, Australian Poems in Song
The First World War - Doug Jenner, Christine Wheeler,
Leigh Burkett,  Frank Corby, Max Jenner 
Words by Henry Lawson, John Dengate and Denis Kevans 

S2 - review (cont) 

S3 - review (cont) 

S4. Review 

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From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire no. 226, Dec 2014 - "The Bush" by Don Watson & Our First Folk Song

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S1 - "The Bush" by Don Watson 

S2 - review by Allen Davis

S3 - review (cont) 

S4 - Our First Folk Song by John Meredith,
extract from Singabout Feb 1980, Mulga Wire no. 17

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