31 December 2006
Repeated a program from earlier in the year..
24 December 2006
This was a pre-recorded program for the Christmas season.
THROW ANOTHER CHAIRLEG ON THE FIRE / Artisan / Paper
Angels / Bedspring Music
THE FIRST NOEL / Tracey Silverman and Thea
Suits-Silverman / A Winter Solstice V / Windham Hill
* EUCALYPTUS CHRISTMAS / Graham Seal / Barbed Wire
Ballads / Unvarnished Productions
THE BELLS OF DUBLIN / The Chieftains / Bells Of Dublin /
BMG
IL EST NE / The Chieftains with Kate & Anna
McGarrigle / Bells Of Dublin / BMG
A CHRISTMAS CAROL / Tom Lehrer / Bah Humbug / Greentrax
GOD REST YE MERRY, GENTLEMEN and GOOD KING WENCESLAS /
Loreena McKennitt / A Christmas Radio Sampler 1999 /
Quinlan Road
LEADING OF THE STAR / Ann & Phil Case / Holiday
Sampler / Dry Run Recordings
APPLE-TREE WASSAIL / The Watersons / For Pence And Spicy
Ale / Topic
JOY HEALTH LOVE AND PEACE / The Watersons / Sound Sound
Your Instruments Of Joy / Topic
THE POACHER'S CHRISTMAS / The Kipper Family / The Ever
Decreasing Circle / Dambuster
THE MAN THAT SLITS THE TURKEYS' THROATS AT CHRISTMAS /
Robin Laing / Bah Humbug / Greentrax
THE BOAR'S HEAD / The Chieftains with The Voice Squad /
Bells Of Dublin / BMG
ORKNEY WASSAIL / Ceilidh Friends / The Spirit Of Giving /
Ceilidh Friends
FIRST CHRISTMAS / Stan Rogers / Between The Breaks /
Fogarty's Cove
JESU JOY OF MAN'S DESIRING / John Palmes / Mouthbow:
Small Voices / self published
ES IST EIN' ROS ENTSPRUNGEN and CHRISTMAS BELLS / Joel
Mabus / How Like The Holly / Fossil Records
* STILLE NACHT / Melbourne Austrian Choir / Christmas In
Australia / self published
CHRISTMAS MORNING / Loudon Wainwright III / Bah Humbug /
Greentrax
CELEBRONS LA NAISSANCE and VEN A CANTARLE JESUS / Steve
Eulberg / 'Twas In The Moon Of Wintertime / Owl Mountain
Music
IT CAME UPON THE MIDNIGHT CLEAR / Diane Taraz / Hope!
Says The Holly / Raisin Pie Music
KING JOHN'S CHRISTMAS / Gerri Gribi / Home For Christmas
/ Lilyfern Records
A DANCE DUET / The Chieftains with Kathryn Tickell /
Bells Of Dublin / BMG
I SAW THREE SHIPS / William Pint & Felicia Dale /
When I See Winter Return / Waterbug
AULD LANG SYNE / Keltik Elektrik / Edinburgh Hogmanay
Party Mix / Greentrax
17 December 2006
The featured album was CEILIDH MINOGUE by CEILIDH MINOGUE
www.ceilidhminogue.co.uk
(Greentrax). Scottish dance music played by a very
competent accordion and fiddle based band who include
some elements of jazz in the accompaniment to their
mostly traditional sets of tunes. Thankfully, the
name of the band and of their album gives no indication
of what awaits the listener. The following tracks
were scattered through the program:
MISS CAMPBELL SET; PETRONELLA; RED, RED
ROSE; PARA HANDY IN NEW YORK
* FRANK'S / Spoot O' Skerry / Jamberoo - A Discovery / www.illawarrafolkclub.org.au
* GIRLS IN OUR TOWN / Margret RoadKnight / Jamberoo - A
Discovery / www.illawarrafolkclub.org.au
* OLD MAN AT THE MILL / Dogwater / Jamberoo - A Discovery
/ www.illawarrafolkclub.org.au
* CHRISTMAS IN MELBOURNE / Broderick Smith / Jamberoo - A
Discovery / www.illawarrafolkclub.org.au
DID YOU HEAR JOHN HURT? / Tom Paxton, Anne Hills, Bob
Gibson / Best Of Friends / Appleseed
PRESSGANGED PADDY and THE REDHAIRED LASS /
Moving Cloud / Sweet Nyaa / Go' Danish
L & N / Mr Mole / From The Outside / Moletown Records
I BE TERRIBLE SHY / George Withers / Old Uncle Tom
Cobleigh And All / Veteran
BOOTS OF SPANISH LEATHER / Dervish / Spirit / Compass
Records
MUSSELS IN THE CORNER / Gordon Bok / Apples In The Basket
/ Timberhead
ROND-POINT / Genticorum / La Galarneau / Roues et Archets
WHO KILLED NORMA JEAN / Janis Ian / The Songs Of Pete
Seeger, Volume 3 / Appleseed
* THE VIRTUOSI SET / Melbourne Scottish Fiddle Club and
friends / A Long Way From Home / www.tellingtales.net
* WHAT A DAY IT'S BEEN / Alex Legg with the Melbourne
Scottish Fiddle Club and friends / A Long Way From Home /
www.tellingtales.net
* SILVERY MOON / The Poachers / The Poachers / self
published
A TRIP TO THE LAKES / The Boat Band / A Trip To The Lakes
/ Harbourtown Records
THE DESERTER / Martin Carthy / Signs Of Life / Topic
* BARKING CREEK BELL RINGER / John Lewis / Deep Water
Blue / Aussiefolk
* RATCLIFFE HIGHWAY / John Lewis / Deep Water Blue /
Aussiefolk
* THE KELLYS WOULDN'T RUN / The Ragged Band / Australian
Folk 2000 / www.folkalliance.org.au
LITTLE JACK FROST / Kate Rusby / The Girl Who Couldn't
Fly / Pure Records
10 December 2006
The featured album was TRUE STORIES by NATHAN ROGERS www.nathanrogers.ca
(Halfway Cove Music) A young Canadian singer
songwriter with a fine voice, an impressive family
musical pedigree and a strong selection of material for
this first solo album. The following tracks were
scattered through the program:
THE BALLAD OF DUNCAN AND BRADY; MARY'S CHILD;
HIBBING; THREE FISHERS; THE BALLAD OF WILLIAM
AND JOHN GIBSON
THE BOATMAN / Rattle On The Stovepipe / 8 More Miles /
Wild Goose
* YOU CAN'T CHANGE IT / Chloe & Jason Roweth / Daisy
Hill / www.rowethmusic.com.au
LA BRASS-THING / Ceilidh Minogue / Ceilidh Minogue /
Greentrax
CHINESE BREAKDOWN / Ken Waldman / As The World Burns / www.kenwaldman.com
THE NORMINATOR REELS / Kevin Macleod / Dorney Rock /
Greentrax
SCATTER THE MUD / John Carty / Yeh, That's All It Is /
Shanachie
* WHISKEY YER THE DIVIL / Fintan / Signed And Sealed / www.indie-cds.com
* CRICK OF THE CREEK / Rose Turtle Ertler / Lady Birds Of
Crick Creek / www.indie-cds.com
PRETTY SARO / Sarah Grey / A Long Way From Home /
Fellside
TWO CROWS / The Devil's Interval / Blood & Honey /
Wild Goose
THE BAKER / Sue Sternberg and Sam Bartlett / Belting You
With Reels / Stuntology
PLUS TU TOURNES / The Zozo Sisters / Adieu False Heart /
Vanguard
BRIAN O'LYNN / Enoch Kent / I'm A Rover / Second Avenue
Records
* ELSPETH'S WEDDING / Home Rule / Joint Effort / Larrikin
* THE BALLAD OF WIDOW JEAN / Kate Battersby / Urban Folk
/ kate-battersby@hotmail.com
SUENA GUAJIRA / Los Jubilados / Cero Faranduleros /
Corason
THE BURNING BABE / Kathryn Tickell & Ensemble
Mystical / Kathryn Tickell & Ensemble Mystical / Park
Records
CEOL CUAINE / O'Stravaganza / O'Stravaganza / Virgin
Classics
WRAP YOURSELF AROUND ME / Tangleweed / Where You Been So
Long / Squatney Records
CHRISTY BARRY'S / Josephine Marsh / Live At Westport /
self published
3 December 2006
The featured album was HELL OR HIGH WATER by ANDREW
MURRAY www.whitecowmusic.com
This is the first solo album from an Irish singer
posessed of a stunningly lush baritone voice, perhaps
best known from his work as lead vocalist with De
Dannan. A solid enough selection of ballads, old
and not so old, with more than useful
accompaniment. The following tracks were scattered
through the program:
LORD FRANKLIN; LITTLE MISS KELLY; I WISH MY
LOVE WAS A RED RED ROSE; JOCK O' HAZELDENE; THE
FATHER'S SONG
* BLACK JACK GYPSY / Graham Lowndes and friends / The
National - 35 Years Of The National Folk Festival / www.folkfestival.asn.au
MISS MONAGHAN'S / John Carty / Yeh, That's All It Is /
Shanachie
TOO OLD TO DIE YOUNG / The ZoZo Sisters / Adieu False
Heart / Vanguard
THE NEW RAILROAD / Eden MacAdam-Somer and Larry Unger /
Notorious / Black Socks
* THE HUNGRY MILE / Peter Hicks / The Bottom Line / self
published
* THE C SET / Catherine Fraser & Duncan Smith /
Presence - Exploring The Art Of Scottish Fiddle / www.locrian.com.au/presence
JOE BANE'S HORNPIPES II / Josephine Marsh / Live At
Westport / self published
* BLUES STAY AWAY FROM ME / Dancehall Racketeers /
Yarraville Sessions / self published
* QUAAMA OR NEW YORK / Ruby and the Rotolactors / Cobargo
Folk Festival 2006 / www.cobargofolkfestival.com
* THE OLD AUSSIE BAND / Home Rule / Joint Effort /
Larrikin
LAZY JOHN / Sarah Grey / A Long Way From Home / Fellside
HEARTBREAK HOTEL / Martin Carthy / Signs Of Life / Topic
* SCHOTTISCHE SET / Growling Dogs / Australian Fiddle
Tunes / greganol@optushome.com.au
BROSE / Kathryn Tickell & Corrina Hewat / The Sky
Didn't Fall / Park Records
CORNBREAD & BUTTERBEANS / The Wiyos / Hat Trick / www.thewiyos.com
BRING IT ON HOME / Rab Noakes with Fraser Speirs / Lights
Back On / Neon
BLAKE'S MARCH / Montana Mandolin Society / The Dance Of
The Sandhill / www.montanamando.com
SVEND VONVED and MODEREN UNDER MULDE / Faerd / Faerd /
Tutl
BASS STRATHSPEY SET / The Unusual Suspects / Live In
Scotland / Foot Stompin' Records
26 November 2006
The featured album was JOURNEYS by COLCANNON
(Greentrax). Latest album from the long established
South Australian band, including a good amount of fine
original material. The following tracks (all *
Australian content) were scattered through the program:
THE BORDER; CARRY ME AWAY; THE TINTO
JIG; THE ISLAND; TORN SCREEN DOOR
HAWAIIAN HARMONY / Richard Ellers / Love Songs, Ballads
and Broadsides / Sharx Music
ANY MICK'LL DO / Sula / Over Seas / Tutl
JOE BANE'S HORNPIPES / Josephine Marsh / Live At Westport
/ self published
THE LONGEST NIGHT / The Stairwell Sisters / Feet All Over
The Floor / Yodel-Ay-Hee
JENNY GRAY'S WHISKY / Silly Wizard / Silly Wizard / Xtra
THE ACADEMY BOYS / Steve Lawrence / Standing Alone /
Lochshore
DANCE OF THE SANDHILL / Montana Mandolin Society / Dance
Of The Sandhill / www.montanamando.com
LITTLE BESSIE / Norman Blake and Peter Ostroushko /
Meeting On Southern Soil / Red House Records
THE FOOL INSIDE / Burach / Unstoppable / Brechin All
Records
GALLO DEL CIELO / Tom Russell / Song Of The West - The
Cowboy Collection / HMA
MOTHER MALONE / Gordon Quinton / The Yellow Sky /
Woodnight Records
THE BALLAD OF ACCOUNTING / Enoch Kent / I'm A Rover /
Second Avenue Records
THE CATS OF THE COLISEUM / Cindy Mangsen / Cat Tales /
Compass Rose Music
FRED PIDGEON'S NO.1 and FOOTMARKS IN THE SNOW / Rattle On
The Stovepipe / 8 More Miles / Wild Goose Records
GWENNI AETH I FFAIR PWLLHELI / Gwenan Gibbard / Y Gwenith
Gwynnaf / Sain
THE GOOD IN ME IS DEAD / Jack Kid / Blackjacks / www.jackkid.com
TUNING UP / Carolyne Hughes / Songs Of The Travelling
People / Saydisc
* THE RED HEAD SET / Madd Marianne / Get Madd / www.tradandnow.com.au
19 November 2006
The featured album was THE ISLAND OF APPLES by MICK RYAN
& PETE HARRIS (Wild Goose Records www.wildgoose.co.uk)
Two well established English singers combining the
richest of rich baritone harmonies on a dozen or so
mostly recent compositions written in ballad style.
Fine songs with strong messages offering alternative
perspectives on events both real and imagined. Very
good album. The following tracks were scattered
through the program:
THE LABOURER'S CAUSE; THE LAND; THE ISLAND OF
APPLES; TOM PAINE'S BONES; THE BOY REMEMBERS
HIS FATHER
GINSENG BLUES and ST LUCAS DE SOMERVILLE /
Tangleweed / Where You Been So Long / Squatney Records
* THE MUSIC TREE / New Dogs Old Tricks with Neil Adam
& Judy Turner / New Dogs Old Tricks / www.tellingtales.net
* DOWN UNDER / Fiddler's Feast / Frenzee / Rouseabout
Records
BLACK MUDDY RIVER / Andrew Murray / Hell Or High Water /
White Cow Music
HOBO JIG / Peter Rolland & Fiddleology / Fiddle tunes
from Arizona / self published
DU FEL Y GLO / Crasdant / Dwndwr / Sain
THE HILLS OF ISLE AU HAUT / Gordon Bok / Apples In The
Basket / Timberhead
* THE WRECK OF THE DANDENONG / Ruth Hazleton & Kate
Burke / A Thousand Miles Or More / ruthsta@yahoo.com
* THE CALL OF LORD HOWE ISLAND / Lord Howe Island School
Choir / Songs Of Lord Howe Island / Lord Howe Island Arts
Council
* SWEET TAYTES / George 'Toofie' Christian / Pilli Lornga
N.I. / Coral Music
* JACKARSE EAT IT ON THE WAY / Fred Pribac and friends /
The Push On The Corner / Bugswatters@yahoo.com
THE BARBER OF SEVILLE / Mat Greene & Andy Turner /
Hampshire Dance Tunes / Wild Goose Records
PINE LEAF BOY TWO-STEP / Pine Leaf Boys / La Musique /
Arhoolie
THE GYPSY QUEEN / John Williams & Dean Magraw / Raven
/ Compass Records
SHE DIDN'T DANCE / Sussie Nielsen / Day Is Dawning / Go'
Danish
* WILD PADDY / Charlie Batchelor / Kind Regards /
Australian Folk Masters
* GUNDAROO BULLOCK / Wongawilli / Australian Selection / www.wongawillicolonialdance.org.au
YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE / Gray Sky Girls / Gray Sky Girls /
American Melody
12 November 2006
The featured album was LONG LONESOME HOME by FRANK
HAMILTON (ITR Records). A good collection of
American folk songs, some traditional, some original and
all adapted by this veteran folk singer who was there in
the 1950s with the likes of Guthrie, Seeger and Elliott
and was still in fine voice on this release from 1999.
The following tracks were scattered through the program:
DO RE MI; RED ROSY BUSH; JAY GOULD'S
DAUGHTER; BRAZOS RIVER; LONG LONESOME HOME
* THE MAD LADY AND ME / Wheelers and Dealers / Wheelers
and Dealers / www.wheelersanddealersmusic.com.au
* LA GRANDEUSE / Wheelers and Dealers / Wheelers and
Dealers / www.wheelersanddealersmusic.com.au
SANTIAGO / Show of Hands / Live / Isis Records
HAPPY ON THE MISSISSIPPI SHORE and EBB AND FLOW / Beverly
Smith & Carl Jones / Somewhere / Ditty Ville
THE BRAES O' KILLIEKRANKIE / Chantan / Primary Colours /
Culburnie
XIRANDIYES DE TORNER / Llan de Cubel / Un Tiempu Meyor /
Fono Astur
* THE DROVER'S SWEETHEART / Chris Kempster / The Songs Of
Chris Kempster / www.folkfednsw.org.au
THE FAIR MAID and THE VIRGINIA SET / Dervish / Harmony
Hill / Whirling Discs
* THE OLD BUSH DANCE / Bruce Watson / Australian Folk
2000 / www.folkalliance.org.au
* THE LAKE ISLE OF INISFREE / Kate Burke / Australian
Folk 2000 / www.folkalliance.org.au
CANADIAN RAILROAD TRILOGY / James Keelaghan / Beautiful -
A Tribute To Gordon Lightfoot / Borealis
* MILLTIMBER JIG / Strathmannan / Strathmannan / kscott@netspeed.com.au
LANCASHIRE LADS / Dave Burland / Benchmark / Fat Cat
Records
* BABY PLEASE DON'T GO / Blues Mainly / Yesterday / self
published
THE HURRICANE / James Ross / James Ross / Greentrax
BUSHES AND BRIARS / Eliza Carthy & Nancy Kerr / Eliza
Carthy & Nancy Kerr / Mrs Casey Records
REUBEN'S TRAIN / Mozaik / Changing Trains / Black Market
Music
5 November 2006
The featured album was BLOOD & HONEY by THE DEVIL'S
INTERVAL (WildGoose Records) www.thedevilsinterval.co.uk
A young trio presents an album of mostly English
traditional songs, some with minimal accompaniment but
mostly unaccompanied. Good harmonies, relevant
sleevenotes and showing a healthy respect for the source
material and the singers who have kept the tradition
alive. The following tracks were scattered through
the program:
GREEN VALLEY; SILVER DAGGER; A MAY CAROL; THE CUCKOO;
BLOW ME JACK
* STAND UP / Colcannon / Journeys / Greentrax
* THE KALKADOON / Alan Blackshaw / Maybe This Year / self
published
DEADHEADS AND SUCKERS / Flat Mountain Girls / Honey Take
Your Whiskers Off / www.flatmountaingirls.com
* SEAN SOUTH / Celtic Warriors / Celtic Warriors / www.celticwarriormus.gemm.com
BUTTER AND CHEESE and FRANK STAMP'S TUNE / Christina
Smith and Jean Hewson / August Gale / Borealis
FAREWEEL TAE TARWATHIE / Enoch Kent / I'm A Rover /
Second Avenue Records
SALMON RIVER RUN / Montana Mandolin Society / Dance Of
The Sandhill / www.montanamando.com
W CHEESE / Darrell Scott / Live At Newport Folk Festival
2006 / FestivaLink
* DESTITUTION ROAD / Alistair Hulett / Dance Of The
Underclass / Mighty Boy Music
MARROWBONES and REELS / Steeleye Span / A Stack Of
Steeleye Span / Emporio
NOLA and J'ENTENDS LE MOULIN / Steve Gilette & Cindy
Mangsen / Being There / Compass Rose Music
* NOBODY KNEW SHE WAS THERE / The Creel / Appellation /
Mountain Music
VICTORIA ROSS / Iain MacInnes / Tryst / Greentrax
* THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER / The Fagans / Kitchen
Dance / Mossbawn Music
COWBOY TAKES IN A SQARE DANCE / Skip Gorman & The
Waddie Pals / Dogie Music / Old West
TILL THE END OF THE WORLD ROLLS ROUND / Banjer Dan / Old
Stuff / www.banjerdan.com
LET'S INCORPORATE / The Wiyos / Hat Trick / www.thewiyos.com
29 October 2006
The featured album was DORNEY ROCK by KEVIN MACLEOD
(Greentrax) www.greentrax.com
A third solo album from this Scottish master of the
mandolin family of instruments, who combines outstanding
versatility and fluency with inspiring passion and
energy. Excellent accompaniments, arrangements and
production complete the package. This one's right up
there on my shortlist for album of the year. (OK,
so I happen to play mandolin, but it's still a great
CD.) The following tracks were scattered through
the program
IRISH JIGS; PAVANE; ROBERT MACDONALD'S
JIGS; CANCION MIXTECA; MACLEODS OF
SPRINGWELL; SHETLAND REELS
I'LL FLY AWAY / The Mysterious Redbirds / The Mysterious
Redbirds / Copper Creek
THE MIDSUMMER CAROL / The Devil's Interval / Blood &
Honey / WildGoose
FRED WILSON'S CLOG / The North Atlantic Strings / The
North Atlantic Strings / Patio Records
MONKEY WHOOPIE SONG / The Wiyos / Hat Trick / www.thewiyos.com
THE SHEEPSTEALERS / The Voice Squad / Holly Wood /
Hummingbird Records
* MR PRESTON'S HORNPIPE / Jevan Cole & Jan Van Dijk /
Tunes Of Curly Nature / Treeskin Music
SAY DARLING SAY / Flat Mountain Girls / Honey Take Your
Whiskers Off / www.flatmountaingirls.com
* INDEPENDENCE PARK / Fred Smith / Independence Park / www.indie-cds.com
* FAREWELL TO THE BOSTON SCOTTISH FIDDLE CLUB / Neil
Adams & Judy Turner / Telling Tales / www.tellingtales.net
THE RAMBLING ROYAL / Roy Clinging & Neil Brookes /
Another Round / WildGoose
DON'T EVER LET NOBODY DRAG YOUR SPIRIT DOWN / Eric Bibb,
Rory Block, Maria Muldaur / Blues Around The World /
Putumayo
THE BLARNEY STONE / Margaret Barry / Songs Of The
Travelling People / Saydisc
THE MUCKIN' O' GEORDIE'S BYRE / Jimmy McBeath / Songs Of
The Travelling People / Saydisc
GOODBYE EDDY STREET / Bumblebees / Buzzin' / Beehave
Records
* THE MORNING OF 1845 / Joy & Hildebrand / Still A
Mem'ry Living / self published
OH NO NOT I and DANSK MORGENZARRAR / ULC /
Spring / Go' Danish
THE BANKS OF THE MUSSELSHELL / Tom Russell / Song Of The
West - The Cowboy Collection / HMG
THE OLD HICKORY CANE / Norman Blake & Peter
Ostroushko / Meeting On Southern Soil / Red House Records
THE BANTRY GIRL'S LAMENT / The Duhks / Your Daughters And
Your Sons / Sugar Hill
22 October 2006
The featured album was SONGS FROM THE DERBYSHIRE COAST by
KEITH KENDRICK (WildGoose) www.wildgoose.co.uk
An entertaining combination of traditional and
contemporary songs and tunes from a forty year veteran of
the English folk scene with a fondness for maritime songs
and who knows Derbyshire isn't actually on the
coast. Excellent harmonies and good
sleevenotes. The following tracks were scattered
through the program:
BOLD RILEY; BEULAH LAND; SUMMON UP THE
SUN; TURKISH QUICKSTEP; SAILOR'S PRAYER
* THE CROSS OF THE SOUTH / Parradiddle / Wait Till The
Word Gets Around / Pumphandle Productions
SUENA GUAJIRA / Los Jubilados / Cero Farandulero /
Corason
THE BURNING BABE / Kathryn Tickell & Ensemble
Mystical / Kathryn Tickell & Ensemble Mystical / Park
Records
PROUDLOCK'S HORNPIPE and MITFORD / Boys Of The Lough /
Twenty / Lough Records
* LAZY HARRY'S / Alan Musgrove / Songs They Used To Sing
/ www.tradandnow.com.au
RECRUITING DANCE / Sandor Fodor / Hungarian Folk Music
From Transylvania / Hungaroton Classic
THE CUCKOO / Fine Friday / Gone Dancing / Foot Stompin'
Records
* STRINGYBARK COCKATOO / Dave de Hugard / The Larrikin
Sessions / ABC Music
* DAISY HILL / Chloe & Jason Roweth / Daisy Hill / www.rowethmusic.com.au
BLACK-EYED SUSIE / Tangleweed / Where You Been So Long /
Squatney Records
* WHEN THE COAL BLEW AWAY / The Rattlers with Maurie
Mulheron / Jamberoo - A Change of Season / www.illawarrafolkclub.org.au
* WINGEN / Blue The Shearer / Jamberoo - A Change of
Season / www.illawarrafolkclub.org.au
HURRICANE / Steve Gilette & Cindy Mangsen / Being
There / Compass Rose Music
WEE WEE GERMAN LAIRDIE / Five Hand Reel / 5 Hand Reel /
Rubber Records
JENNY RAN AWAY IN THE MUD IN THE NIGHT / Eryn Marshall /
Calico / Merriweather Records
THE BALLAD OF THE SIMPLE SAILOR / Dan McKinnon / Fields
Of Dreams And Glory / www.danmckinnon.ca
* THE RED HEAD SET / Madd Marianne / Get Madd / self
published
15 October 2006
The featured album was 8 MORE MILES by RATTLE ON THE
STOVEPIPE (WildGoose Records) www.petecooper.com
Outstanding collection of old-time American songs and
tunes, including several tracks from the English
tradition, played by an experienced and talented English
trio with an obvious respect for their material.
Highly entertaining album, with excellent
sleevenotes. The following tracks were scattered
through the program:
EIGHT MORE MILES TO LOUISVILLE; THE BOATMAN;
THE NEW RIGGED SHIP; NANCY; SAIL AWAY LADIES
* TAKE ME DOWN THE HARBOUR / Skedaddle / Take Me Down The
Harbour / self published
THREE JOLLY BUTCHERS / Damien Barber / The Furrowed Field
/ DJC Records
* OLD HAMMERHEAD / Margaret Walters / The Power Of A Song
/ Feathers and Wedge
* RAGTIME PIPERS / Bun' Ber E / Ceilidh / self published
ALBERT'S COVE / Paul Mills / The Other Side Of The Glass
/ Borealis
ALASDAIR OG / Shine / Sugarcane / Chocolate Records
* SILVER HOOK TANGO / Kavisha Mazzella / Silver Hook
Tango / Black Market Music
MAID BEHIND THE BARREL / Footloose / Trip To The Moon /
Loose Feet Recordings
NOBODY NOTICED ME / Bob Cann / Old Uncle Tom Cobbleigh
And All / Veteran
SHADY GROVE / Gray Sky Girls / Gray Sky Girls / American
Melody
* THE JOLLY PUDDLERS / Graeme Adler & Chris Hood /
Life On The Goldfields / self published
STYBARROW CRAG / The Boat Band / A Trip To The Lakes /
Harbourtown Records
NIGHT VISITING SONG / Sussie Nielsen / Day Is Dawning /
Go' Danish
* AUSTRALIAN POLKAS / Strathmannan / Strathmannan / kscott@netspeed.com.au
JOHN BROWN'S DREAM / Ken Waldman / As The World Burns / www.kenwaldman.com/astheworldburns.htm
BILLY / Rab Noakes with Fraser Speirs / Lights Back On /
Neon Productions
THE BISHOP OF CHESTER'S JIG / Greg Stephens and
Crookfinger Jack / The Beggar Boy Of The North /
Harbourtown Records
THE FOOT OF COLLINS HILL / Shelley Posen / The Old Songs'
Home / Well Done Music
HENRY FORD'S WALTZ / Alan Jabbour & Ken Perlman /
Southern Summits / www.kenperlman.com
8 October 2006
The featured album was MASQUERADE by the ULC QUINTET www.ulc.dk (Cope
Records). Traditional Danish tunes and Irish songs
played in a laid back folk jazz style. Easy
listening. The fiddler, Peter Uhrbrand, performed
in town earlier this week as a member of Faerd. The
following tracks were scattered through the program:
DEN NY MASKERADE; THE SNOWS THEY MELT THE
SOONEST; MELODI EFTER BRDR. BAST; LOUGH ERNE
SHORE
HERON ELECTION BALLAD NO.4 / Silly Wizard / Silly Wizard
/ Transatlantic Records
* STAND UP, DIGGERS ALL / Touchwood / The Great City /
Great White Noise
CANNY CUMBERLAND / Greg Stephens and Crookfinger Jack /
The Beggar Boy Of The North / Harbourtown
CINDY IN THE MEADOWS / The Stairwell Sisters / Feet All
Over The Floor / Yodel-Ay-Hee
* TILL THE RIVERS ALL RUN DRY / Shane Howard / Another
Country / www.shanehoward.com.au
THE HIGHLANDER'S FAREWELL TO IRELAND and THE
SLAVE'S LAMENT / Battlefield Band / The Road Of Tears /
Temple Records
BULGARIAN CEILIDH and SAE WILL WE YET / The
Unusual Suspects / Live In Scotland / Foot Stompin'
Records
* AT BOGAN GATE / Jim Low / Negatives Of Glass / Mountain
Tracks
* ONE NIGHT IN MELBOURNE / Enda Kenny / Six Of One / www.endakenny.com.au
PUT THE ROAD IN ORDER / Brass Monkey / Going &
Staying / Topic
THE ROUND HOUSE JIGS / Benji Kirkpatrick / Dance In The
Shadow / WildGoose
POTATISVALS / Faerd / Logbok / Tutl
GIULIANO'S TUNE / The Duhks / Your Daughters And Your
Sons / Sugar Hill
* FIVE AND A ZACK / Andy Saunders / The Larrikin Sessions
/ ABC Music
JERRY'S BEAVER HAT / Craob Rua / The More That's Said The
Less The Better / Lochshore
1 October 2006
The featured album was THE SKY DIDN'T FALL by KATHRYN
TICKELL & CORRINA HEWAT (Park Records). A
stylish album, bringing together the formidable talents
of two outstanding musicians with Northumbrian and
Scottish traditional music backgrounds, combining
Northumbrian pipes, Scottish harp, fiddle and
vocals. Several old songs received serious
makeovers for this album and they emerge all the better
for it. The following tracks were scattered through
the program:
FAVOURITE PLACE; BRIG SET; BROSE;
FELTON LONNEN; THE LADS
* MARILYN MONROE WAS A SIZE 14 / Pat Drummond / The Age
Of Dissent / Shoestring
* SOMETHING DOING / Bernard Carney & Peter Grayling /
No Time Like The Future / Tempo
* GOORIANAWA / Collector / Coming In From The Old / www.rowethmusic.com.au
THE BANKS OF THE NILE / Nancy Kerr & James Fagan /
Song Links / Fellside
JEG GIK MIG UD SPADSERENDE / ULC / Spring / Go' Danish
YOU CAN EAT DOG FOOD / Austin Lounge Lizards / Strange
Noises In The Dark / Blue Corn Music
EAT A DOG / Michael Garin / Tulsa Is Just A Slut Spelled
Backwards / alphagarin@aol.com
* JACKO KEVANS' / Adrian Barker & Ben Stephenson /
Undertones / Tradsville
MYSTERY / Bruce Cockburn / Life Short Call Now / Shock
* MR PRESTON'S HORNPIPE / Jevan Cole & Jan Van Dijk /
Tunes Of Curly Nature / Treeskin Music
KATY KLINE / Tangleweed / Just A Spoonful / Squatney
Records
DONALD MACGILLIVRY / The Unusual Suspects / Live In
Scotland / Foot Stompin' Records
* REMEMBER PORT MELBOURNE / Loaded Dog / A Coastline
Facing West / hugatree@iinet.net.au
* FLAT OUT LIKE A LIZARD DRINKING / David Hyams / Knowing
The Place / www.milestogo.com.au
COME BACK KATY / Jed Marum / Cross Over The RIver /
Boston Road Records
A HUNDRED YEARS AGO and ROMAN REEL / Keith
Kendrick / Songs From The Derbyshire Coast / WildGoose
* TO HER DOOR / Paul Kelly / Live / Mushroom
MELODI EFTER J. C. SVABO / Faerd / Faerd / Tutl
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