Don Roberts and Lorna Dempster interviewed by Alan Musgrove in the Alan Musgrove collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 3765924
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Roberts, Don, 1923-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, written permission required for personal copies and public use during the lifetime of the interviewee.
- Description:
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- 1998 Jun. 20
- 1 digital audio tape (ca. 122 min.)
- Series:
- Alan Musgrove collection.
- Summary:
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Don Roberts, born 1923, at Koondarook, up the Murray, talks about playing the accordion; how his father used to play at school houses; Bill and Frank Gardiner, accordion players; dances, music played; guitars and accordions were played at most dances from 8pm to 1.30am in the morning; his father's records; tunes learnt from German settlers before WWI; father playing a single row accordion; types of tunes his father played: Schottische/ Polkas/ Barn Dance; singing a lot, at schools and later on in life; Country & Western and radio shows at 3DB; country dances they played at in the 1950s; competitions at dances in order to raise money for schools etc.; Frank Lucas and Sid, in the '60s, playing accordion, banjo, and fiddle; their group in Bendigo, still practicing once a week; playing tunes his father played; the tunes he played when when he started to play.
Lorna Dempster, born 1926, in Victoria talks about her father's dairy; riding on horses, novelty shows; learning to play the mouth organ, aged 8; how she would do shows with her brother during the war years to raise money for soldiers; shows, novelty riding, flag and barrel racing; winning 6 years in a row at the Melbourne show; learning to play for concerts, parties and around home; playing the Button accordion around the city; lots of Irish people playing.
- Partial contents:
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- Tunes: An old German tune (unidentified)
- unidentified tune
- My Polly
- unidentified tune (error)
- unidentified tune (repeated in G)
- Click goes the shearers
- Why did my master sell me?
- unidentified tune (error)
- Set tune, waltz
- Polka
- unidentified tune
- Tipparary
- unidentified tune, My Bonnie lies over the ocean
- Phil, the Fluter
- unidentified tune (error)
- unidentified tune (learnt from his father)
- unidentified tune (learnt from his father (repeat))
- uidentified tune, Smile away (Wedding bells), Until we meet again
- Miss Polly (error)
- Miss Polly (by Lorna Dempster)
- Oslo waltz. Lorna Dempster plays: Come back Paddy Reilly
- I'll be your sweetheart
- The stone outside, Dan Murphy's door
- Spencil Hill
- Spencil Hill (repeat)
- Green glends of Mantra, Lovely Leetrim
- Gentle mother
- unidentified tune. Recording from 78 LP record onto the DAT of the tune: Swanny River and an interview with Daniel Robert in 1952 at 72 years of age. Continues with jamming by Don Roberts, Lorna Dempster and Alan Musgrove.
- Notes:
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- Recorded June 20, 1998 at Heathcote, Victoria.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (3 p.)
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Musicians
- Other authors/contributors:
- Related Records:
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- Until 2068 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1998
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