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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.
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.
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.
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As of 2013, the band has released two albums. Both have consisted of either cover songs or poems set to music. The first, Lawson, was a collection of Henry Lawson poems put to music. [1] This marked the first collaboration between John Schumann, Hugh McDonald, and Michael Atkinson since Schumann left Redgum back in 1986.
The Wayfarers is an Australian folk band. [1] Their album Home Among The Gum Trees – Songs For Aussie Kids was nominated for the ARIA Award for Best Children's Album in 1989. [ 2 ]
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]
Max Klubal: Music for Australian Folk Dancing with Instructions, The Australian Folk Trust., 1979; Jan Wositzky, Dobe Newton, Barry Olive: The Bushwackers Band Dance Book, Greenhouse Publications 1980 ISBN 0-909104-25-5; David De Santi Australian Traditional Dance Tunes, Wongawilli Colonial Dance Tunes, 2002, ISMN M900951809