‘Bushwacked, Buggered and Bewildered”
Sunday 22 March, 2-5 p.m. Everglades Club, Woy Woy
Tickets $25 (members)/$30 (non-members)
Book Here: https://www.trybooking.com/DIPYX
Martyn Wyndam-Read (UK), Warren Fahey, Garry Steel and Marcus Holden (Aust)
Bush ballads, folksongs, recitations, yarns and curious stories from two of Australia’s most celebrated masters of folk music.
Bushwhacked, Bothered & Bewildered:
Celebrating the Golden Years of the Bush through songs, yarns and verse.
Martyn Wyndham-Read and Warren Fahey have been custodians of Australia’s folksong heritage for over sixty years. Between them, they offer a deep swag of songs and stories from rare convict broadsides through to shearing ballads and larrikin city ditties. “There is something magical in how these legendary performers unfold their stories, press nostalgia buttons, and entertain. They bring our history to life.” (ABC Radio National)
Together with two truly great instrumentalists: Marcus Holden and Gary Steele, this show is not to be missed!
Martyn Wyndham-Read has been involved with folk music for over sixty years since he left his mother’s farm in Sussex in the and headed off, with his guitar, to Australia where he worked on a sheep station Emu Springs in South Australia. It was while he was there that he heard, first hand, the old songs sung by some of the station hands at Emu Springs and he became captivated by these songs and the need to know more of them and where they came from grew. He headed off to Melbourne and became part of the folk song revival there and throughout Australia during the early1960’s.
Back to England in 1967 where he met up with the renowned singer and song collector A.L (Bert) Lloyd, who himself had spent time in Australia. He came to work with him and with many other notaries of the folk revival such as Shirley Collins, becoming a true ambassador of a tradition that continues to inspire just as it under threat.
Martyn has had an astounding careeer over the past 50+ years, as an important song collector, international performer and musical interpreter who has brought ‘traditional’ Australian folk music to the world and composed and inspred many more contemporary compositions that have helped build and extend that tradition. He returns to Australia and Woy Woy in 2026, possibly for the last time. You wouldn’t want to miss him.
Warren Fahey is a folk legend in this country as a performer, song collector and cultural historian. He has been honoured with the Order of Australia, the Prime Minister’s Centenary Medal, Golden Gumleaf Award and Australia’s highest award for lifetime achievement in music, The Don Banks Music Award. He prefers to say he is a graduate of the Dingo University of the Outback. He describes himself as “a cultural historian who uses songs, stories, humour and poetry as signposts to our unique history, and to pinpoint our changing national identity.”
Accompanied by Garry Steel on accordion and Marcus Holden, master of any instrument with strings, he will demonstrate why he and his great group, the Larrikins, are held in such high regard. Expect to experience a unique and inspiring program of bush ballads, folksongs, recitations, yarns and curious stories delivered by one of Australia’s most important traditional musicians and most celebrated storytellers.
Tickets $25 (members)/$30 (non-members)
Book Here: https://www.trybooking.com/DIPYX