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Bush dance is a style of dance from Australia, particularly where the music is provided by a bush band. The dances are mainly based on the traditional folk dances of the UK, Ireland and central Europe.
Bush bands play music for bush dances, in which the dance program is usually based on dances known to have been danced in Australia from colonial times [broken anchor] to the folk revival in the 1950s. Contemporary dances, set in the traditional style, are also featured at bush dances.
The period leading up to and following Australia's Bicentenary, 1988, saw a marked resurgence in bush music and bush dances that lasted for many years. Many bands also bearing the rock influence and adding original music rode this Australiana wave. Examples are the Ants Bush Band, Eureka!, Rantan Bush Band and Bullamakanka.
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 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 ...
The lineup is led by ANOHNI and the Johnsons, Arooj Aftab, Esperanza Spalding, Explosions in the Sky, Les Claypool's Bastard Jazz, Nels Cline, Rufus Wainwright, Sam Bush Band, Steve Roach, Taj ...
There were many powerful moments throughout the service, but one moment has had people talking -- Bush's dance moves during "Battle Hymn of the Republic." George W. Bush turns heads at Dallas ...
Mucky Duck Bush Band (1982), Dance on with the Duck an introduction to early colonial dances, Thank-You-Both Productions, Greenmount, W.A. : Edwest [distributor] Life. Be in it; Mucky Duck Bush Band (1982), With the compliments of Mucky Duck Bush Band and Life.Be In It. : an introduction to early colonial dances, Life.