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The Bushwackers Band, often simply the Bushwackers, are an Australian folk and country music band or bush band founded in 1970. Their cover version of "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" (1976) was listed in the APRA Top 30 Australian songs in 2001, alongside its writer Eric Bogle's 1980 rendition.
The Bushwhackers quickly became one of the most popular duos with children [citation needed], chiefly due to the wildly comedic nature of their antics (including their trademark "Bushwhacker walk"), their pastoral musical theme, and their friendly interaction with the audience. This was a stark contrast to their long pre-WWF career as one of ...
The bushwhackers are a major focus of Wildwood Boys (2000), a biographical novel of "Bloody Bill" Anderson by James Carlos Blake. The 1976 film The Outlaw Josey Wales depicts the activities of bushwhackers during and after the American Civil War. Bushwhackers appear in the side-stories of the 2004 HBO TV series Deadwood, set in South Dakota.
Dobe Newton was born on 14 July 1948 in Sydney. [1] During the 1960s he acquired a lagerphone and tin whistle after hearing Irish folk group the Dubliners. [2] He joined Australian bush band the Bushwackers (initially the Original Bushwhackers and Bullockies Bush Band) in 1973 on vocals and lagerphone.
The Bushwhackers, initially named "The Heathcote Bushwhackers", Australia's first "revival" bush band were arguably the catalyst for Australia's folk revival of the 1950s; prior to that revival, similar bush bands, utilizing a mixture of commercially available and sometimes home-made instruments, had performed a social function in rural areas since the late 19th century. [1]
The club was founded in October 1954 by the Australian folklorist and performer John Meredith, together with colleagues from Australia's first revivalist "bush band" The Bushwhackers, as a social and teaching club with the aim of popularising the style of bush singing and dancing promoted by the band and encouraging others to form their own performing groups; the band would participate by ...
Hugh McDonald (17 July 1954 – 18 November 2016) was an Australian musician. Active from the 1970s to 2016, he performed and recorded with the Bushwackers, the Sundowners, Banshee, Redgum, Des "Animal" McKenna, Moving Cloud and the Colonials.
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