Warren Fahey interviewed by Keith McKenry in the John Meredith biography project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 5011529
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Fahey, Warren, interviewee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2010
- 5 digital audio tapes (ca. 301 min.)
- Series:
- John Meredith biography project.
- Summary:
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Folkloric recording. Warren Fahey speaks about the early years in Sydney; influence of his grandparents; his parents; his sibling; attending Marist Brothers School; the arrival of television, gramophone; popularity of square dance music; singing around campfires; bushwalking; his school days; his first public performance; John Hargreaves; John Wester; memories of family life; radio days; the family shop; reading mythology; Banjo Paterson; Henry Lawson; John O'Brien; compiling with Graham Seal the centenary edition of Paterson's Old Bush Songs; Jacques de Vin; working in radio advertising and TV advertising; starting a folk club; reviewing folk music books for ABC radio; buying American Folkways records; doing a radio series called 'Music of the World's People'; Purple Parrot Folk Club, Elizabeth Folk Club; Sydney Bush Music Club; Marian Henderson; Colin Dryden; difference between bushwalking campfire songs and songs in folk clubs; John Meredith; Alan Scott; Meredith's Folk Songs of Australia and other work; Wendy Lowenstein; Shirley Andrews; Norm and Pat O'Connor; Bushwhackers; Bush Music Club; starting the Edinburgh Castle Folk Club; doing first major series on Australiana for ABC radio, 'The Australian Legend'; A.L. Lloyd.
Fahey talks about gaining confidence as a singer; his friendships; Don Henderson; Port Phillip Folk Festival; importance of dance in the folk scene; teaching himself to read music; The Larrikins; other musicians; leaving advertising; his involvement with Jesus Christ Superstar and other major shows; establishing Folkways shop and Australian Folklore Unit (1969); receiving a grant from the Sydney Myer Foundation, administered through the National Library; Folk song collecting; the release of Sally Sloane record; conflicts with other collectors; organising first national meeting of Australian folklorists, (1973); the Australian Folk Trust; Wendy Lowenstein; early Australian folk recordings; Larrikin Records; Bushwackers and Redgum; launching Real World label in Australia, selling 110,000 copies of soundtrack for film 'The Piano'; selling Larrikin Records to Festival; Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger; publication of his collected songs in Pint Pot and Billy in (1977); his book 'Eureka: The Songs That Made Australia'; his new book of Australian folk songs; writing songs for Seniors Week; Joe Watson; the success of his yarn books; working with Musica Viva for 38 years; Trevor Shearston; Ted Simpson; Tex Morton; the declining interest in bush songs; his future plans; Bawdy songs; the importance to collectors of internet and Trove; the Bogle-Chandler scandal; Edgar Waters.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on 29 September 2010 in Birchgrove, N.S.W.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-222297818
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (11 p.)
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Folk musicians
- Other authors/contributors:
- McKenry, Keith, 1948-, interviewer
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the John Meredith biography project.
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- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2010
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