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Australian folk music is the traditional music from the large variety of immigrant cultures and those of the original Australian inhabitants. Celtic , English, German and Scandinavian folk traditions predominated in the first wave of European immigrant music.
In February 1996, the Waifs relocated to Melbourne, recorded their debut, eponymous album, The Waifs, which was released in May by independent label Outside Music.The band co-produced it with Jen Anderson and Mick Thomas of folk rock band Weddings Parties Anything.
Australian music's early western history, was a collection of British colonies, Australian folk music and bush ballads, with songs such as "Waltzing Matilda" and The Wild Colonial Boy heavily influenced by Anglo-Celtic traditions, Indeed many bush ballads are based on the works of national poets Henry Lawson and Banjo Patterson.
Original Bushwhacker Alex Hood, age 19 when the Club opened in 1954, performs at the Bush Music Club in 2014, in his 79th year.. Sydney's Bush Music Club is the oldest and longest running folk music performance and education organisation in Australia, and is believed to be the second oldest such club still in existence in the English speaking world. [1]
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.
Franklyn B Paverty is an Australian bush band that has performed mostly in and around Canberra. [1] Its repertoire primarily comprises Australian folk music, bush ballads and music for bush dances, varied occasionally with material from the celtic, bluegrass and old-time traditions.
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Around this time (in 1967), the nationally well known Australian folk singers Declan Affley and Mike Ball included four of Robertson's compositions on their album The Rake And Rambling Man (subtitled "Folk singers of Australia series; v. 1") which helped to bring his writing to a greater prominence.