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There are only a few Australian artists who manage to enjoy an extensive recording career. One reason is the relatively small home market in which locals compete with one another and a huge international catalogue for a share of the consumer’s discretionary music...

Circa 1977-1980Fitzroy, MelbourneOn any given Friday night in Melbourne between about 1977 and 1980, before Random Breath Testing and noise regulations stifled our world-famous live music scene, you could go to the 'Dan O'Connell Hotel' in Fitzroy and experience the...

When a group of Melbourne University students gathered to share their love of traditional music in 1971, little did they realise that they were establishing a musical ‘institution’. There had been ‘bush bands’ before, but none captured the public’s imagination to such...

First came the music. Anglo-Celtic in its origin, it survived brutal transportation half-way around the world to the oldest land on Earth, already with a history of some 40,000 years of habitation. Here the music was shaped by...