Rambleers reunion, Illawarra Folk Festival, Jamberoo 2002

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Canberra Times, March 30, 2002

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Harry Kay (mouth organ), Barbara Lysisk (vocals), Alex Hood (Banjo), Chris Kempster (guitar) at Jamberoo, 2002       Photos 1 to 21 © Sandra Nixon

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2008 NFF - photo © Bob Bolton



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Extracts from Singabout - Recitations - a selection

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Thanks to Sue Brian for creating the index to Singabout from which this extract is taken.

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Singabout 6(2), Pages 16-17




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Singabout, 3(3), p.13



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Singabout, 3(3), 1959, p.13


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Singabout 3(2), p.17

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Singabout 4(4), 1962, p.16


more about this recitation here
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Singabout 4(1), p. 12

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Singabout 4(3), p.14



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Found on TROVE - Part 3 - The Poems of 1891

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Between December 1890 and December 1891 The Worker published around 30 similar poems.

This poem was published as the 1891 Shearers strike was looming.

The Spirit of the Bushmen (1891)

http://folkstream.com/412.html

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To All Free Labourers! (1891)

http://folkstream.com/413.html

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Who Are The Anarchists ? (1891) - surely this is a song?

http://folkstream.com/414.html

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We Still Are Loyal Unionists (1891)

http://folkstream.com/417.html

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The Coming Victory (1891)

http://folkstream.com/418.html


Thanks to Mark Gregory for these links.

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The Art of John Dengate - Part 3

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The Art of John Dengate - Part 1  (August 2015)

The Art of John Dengate - part 2. (January 2016)

Singabout 6(1) 1966 & Singabout 6(2) 1967 -  The Art of John Dengate - Part 4  (Sept 2021)

The art of John Dengate Part 5   (July 2025)

At 2008 Illawarra Folk Festival John & Martin Pearson drew on the bar, (Sandra Nixon photos)


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Drawings © John Dengate, used with permission of Dale Dengate


1.  Ballad of 1891


2.  Blade Shearers


3.  Goorianawa


4.  Lounging on the sofas


5.  Ryebuck shearer


6.  Shearing in a bar


7.  Shearing in a bar 



8. Shearer

9.  John's Scrabble doodle (Chris Woodland Collection,  BMC Archives)

10. One of John's earliest known cartoons, drawn in 1957 at Teacher's College, a comment upon one of the teaching students who asked an irrelevant question to the demonstration teacher doing a presentation. It was given to the questioner & recently given to Dale. (Dale Dengate collection)

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