Duplicate publications needing good homes!

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Available for a donation - they can be viewed at our Regular Monthly & Weekly activities at Tritton Hall 

They can also be posted out, but would need to be weighed & have postage added.

enquiries - Sandra 

  

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From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire no. 212, August 2012 - Songs of Stan Wakefield (1906 - 1962)

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Three songs, Wallaby Liz, The Rueful Rabbit & Songs of Australia taken from Songs of Australia, words and music by Stan Wakefield, edited by John Meredith for the Bush Music Club. Southern Music Publishing, Sydney, 1966. Bush Music Club Series no. 2.

In 2015 BMC Member Peter Cahill added an extra verse to Songs of Australia for use in our Saplings program (see below) 

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From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire no. 232, Oct 2015 - Updating Paterson

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Updating Paterson - clancy@theoverflow & The Mountain Biker from Snowy River twenty-first century homages to two of Banjo Paterson's creations by Emeritus Professor Joe Wolfe, University of NSW.  The poems were Subject to a Creative Commons license, but the poet's name was mistyped!

Here are the original versions with explanations from the Professor's pen (keyboard)!  Link includes audio of the author reading both poems, & a link to an ABC radio interview.

https://newt.phys.unsw.edu.au/~jw/clancy-at-the-overflow.html

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From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire - no. 226, December 2014, & no. 17, February 1980 - Australia's first folk song

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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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From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire no. 255, March 2021 - Four 1919 contributions from TROVE

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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. 

S1 - 1919 

S2 - Untitled poem about the 1919 Seamen's Union Strike 

S3.  A Poem dedicated to Lieut.-General Sir W.R. Birdwood
published in the Circular Head Chronicle (Stanley, Tas)
12 Nov 1919, p. 3

S4 - 2 light-hearted poems from the
Sydney Stock and Station Journal, 24 Jan 1919, p. 2
A Chinese Poem from Arthur Waley - A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems.
Untitled poem about A simple maid ....

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From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire - no. 189, October 2008 - The Lagerphone family, CD review & song

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S1 - The lagerphone family 

The Lagerphone's German relative, the Teufelsgeige 

S3 - Lyrics - 5603, or Death, Where is thy Sting?
by Wilfred C. Knight

S4- CD Review - Wongawilli's Australia Street 

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From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire no. 190, Dec 2008 - Book & CD reviews

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CD Review - The Life of Brine by the Roaring Forties 

Review - Australia's Lost Folk Songs by Keith McKenry 

Those old tin sheds echoed in "C" - Wikipedia

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From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire, no. 230, June 2015 - Poems & CD Revew

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Tails from the Past 

A Poem from the Past by John Meredith 

The Sandy Hollow Line, by Duke Tritton

Too Many Songs About Shearers by far,  Vol. 1 by Chloe & Jason Roweth

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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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

Report on Bob Bolton's Lifetime Achievement Award, NFF17

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Birth of the Victorian Folk Music Club, established in 1959 as the Victorian Bush Music Club

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60 years of the Victorian Folk Music Club (est 1959 as the Victorian Bush Music Club) as recorded in Singabout.

Australian Tradition June 1969 

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From the Archives - Alex & Annette Hood at Jamberoo, 1999 - Bob Bolton Collection

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Photos © Bob Bolton 

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Extracts from Mulga Wire no. 241, April 2017 - ANZAC poems

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Extracts from Mulga Wire no. 252, December 2019 - The Other Bush Music Club - 60 years of Victorian Folk Music Club

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