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Bob McInnes interviewed by Rob Willis in the Voices of the bush oral history project [sound recording]
Bib ID 5733881
Format AudioAudio, OnlineOnline
Author
McInnes, Bob, 1942-
 
Online Access
Access Conditions Access open for research, personal copies and public use. 
Description 2011. 
3 sound files (ca. 138 min.) 
Series

Voices of the bush oral history project.

Technical Details

Mode of access: Online. 

Summary

Folkloric recording. Bob McInnes, born in Walcha, N.S.W., discusses his family background; his interest in horticulture and the horticultural industry; his lifetime of music and the bands he has played in, including the Wild Colonial Boys and the Larrikans; his influences; early musical tastes and instruments played; his musical involvement in several major feature films; Scottish fiddle music, tempos and style. He plays several tunes and sings ditties.

Partial contents
  • Plays fiddle: Reel tune (unidentified)
  • slow air (unidentified)
  • Soldier's joy
  • Morris dance tune
  • Irish washerwoman
  • strathspey (unidentified)
  • Oslo waltz
  • polka tune (unidentified) Ditties: Sweet Georgia Brown (parody) Plays: Alloette (sings, fragment)
  • Click go the shears (fragment)
  • The Goulburn ram (sings)
 
Notes

Recorded with John Harpley.

Recorded on 5 August 2011 in Kiama, N.S.W.

Index/Finding Aid Note Timed summary (7 p.) 
Subjects McInnes, Bob, - 1942- - Interviews.  |  Horticulturists - New South Wales - Interviews.  |  Fiddlers - Australia - Interviews.
Occupation Horticulturists.  |  Musicians.
Other authors/contributors Willis, Rob, 1944-

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ORAL TRC 6125/18
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Petherick Reading Room (Oral History)

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