- Bib ID:
- 5011516
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Gall, Jennifer, 1959-, performer
- Access Conditions:
- Access to be determined.
- Description:
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- 2010
- 2 sound files (ca. 70 min.)
- Series:
- NLA NFF Folk Fellowship collection.
- Summary:
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Folkloric recording. Introduction by Shelly Grant, Senior Librarian of Oral History and Folklore at the NLA, explaining the National Folk Fellowship and the background to the 2009 Fellowship theme "Picking Up the Threads: Australian Women's Folk Music". Jenny Gall speaks of her fascination with the links between music and memory, giving instances from her own family; Gaelic music; Georgiana Macrae; Octavia Macrae; traditional Scottish airs; Jacobite songs; relates sources indicating how convict women used songs to mock and defy established authority; Mary Jean Officer; Frances Louisa Bussell; the layers of meaning within traditional songs, the connection between the natural world and the human; traditional practices; bush love songs; Patsy Adam-Smith; Sally Sloane; Warren Fahey; bushrangers, hero ballads; Eileen McCoy; Irish music; Eilish O'Connor; Questions; Thankyous.
- Partial contents:
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- Songs, music and readings: The green bushes, including sampling from early field recordings
- Ti-nan-Org (unaccompanied in Gaelic and English)
- a recording of Georgiana Macrae, reading from her journal a passage written in 1839 at Gravesend before sailing for Australia
- a traditional Gaelic air (unidentified tune played on piano)
- Jenny reads an extract from Georgiana Macrae's grand-daughter Octavia's journal
- a Scottish dance tune (unidentified, played on the violin)
- an extract is read from Octavia's journal about Georgiana's fondness for Jacobite songs
- Over the water to Charlie (women's voices sing unaccompanied)
- The female rambling sailor (Jenny plays viola and sings, accompanied)
- recording of an unidentified woman speaking about the old ritual of "telling the bees" in domesticated hives all items of importance in the life of the family
- As Sylvie went walking (women's voices with piano and strings accompaniment)
- The old bullock dray (Jenny sings with accordion accompaniment)
- The flash country shearer (two verses)
- The ballad of Ben Hall (Jacqui with viola accompaniment)
- unidentified dance tune (Jenny on fiddle)
- On Board waltz (played on the viola with accordion accompaniment)
- set of Irish jigs (unidentified, group)
- two Irish reels, Love at the Endings and Downfall (Tom Wolfe)
- Notes:
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- "Using the vast quantity of archival sound recordings held at the National Library of Australia, “Picking up the Threads: Australian women's folk music” examines the social networks and relations at work in the evolution and transmission of Australian folk music."
- Performers: are Jenny Gall (fiddle, keyboard, viola, voice), Ian Blake (electronic mixing), Jacqueline Bradley (fiddle, voice), Sandra France (keyboard, accordion), Sue Hobson (fiddle, voice)
- Recorded on 5 May 2010 at the National Library of Australia, A.C.T.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (4 p.)
- Subject:
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- Other authors/contributors:
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- Blake, Ian, performer
- Bradley, Jacqueline, 1986-, performer
- France, Sandra, 1968-, performer
- Hobson, Sue, 1956-, performer
- Grant, Shelly, speaker
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- Until 2080 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Creation date:
- 2010
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