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61 relations: A. L. Lloyd, Aboriginal Australians, Alternative rock, And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda, Angus & Julia Stone, Archie Roach, ARIA Music Awards, Australian country music, Banjo Paterson, Boolavogue (song), Botany Bay (song), Boy & Bear, Brisbane, Bush band, Bush dance, Bushranger, Celts, Click Go the Shears, Convict, Didgeridoo, Drover (Australian), Eric Bogle, Folk music, Frank the Poet, Gallipoli Campaign, Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, Gurrumul, Heavy metal music, I Was Only Nineteen, Indigenous Australians, Indigenous music of Australia, John Schumann, John Williamson (singer), Lee Kernaghan, Moreton Bay (song), Mucky Duck Bush Band, Music hall, Music of Australia, National anthem, New Theatre (Newtown), Penal transportation, Redgum, Rock music, Roots revival, Sara Storer, Scandinavian folklore, Sea shanty, Sheep shearer, Slim Dusty, Stockman (Australia), ..., Swagman, Sydney City Trash, Tex Morton, The Black Velvet Band, The Bulletin, The bush, The Bushwackers (band), The Seekers, The Wild Colonial Boy, Waltzing Matilda, Yothu Yindi. Expand index (11 more) »
A. L. Lloyd
Albert Lancaster Lloyd (29 February 1908 – 29 September 1982),Eder, Bruce.
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Aboriginal Australians
Aboriginal Australians are legally defined as people who are members "of the Aboriginal race of Australia" (indigenous to mainland Australia or to the island of Tasmania).
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Alternative rock
Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a style of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s.
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And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda
And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda is a song written by Scottish-born Australian singer-songwriter Eric Bogle in 1971.
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Angus & Julia Stone
Angus & Julia Stone are an Australian folk and indie pop group, formed in 2006 by siblings Angus and Julia Stone.
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Archie Roach
Archibald William "Archie" Roach, AM (born 8 January 1957, Mooroopna) is an Australian musician.
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ARIA Music Awards
The Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (commonly known informally as ARIA Music Awards or ARIA Awards) is an annual series of awards nights celebrating the Australian music industry, put on by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA).
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Australian country music
Australian country music is a part of the music of Australia.
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Banjo Paterson
Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson, (17 February 18645 February 1941) was an Australian bush poet, journalist and author.
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Boolavogue (song)
"Boolavogue" is an Irish ballad commemorating the campaign of Father John Murphy and his army in County Wexford during the Irish Rebellion of 1798.
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Botany Bay (song)
"Botany Bay" is a song that can be traced back to the musical burlesque, Little Jack Sheppard, staged at The Gaiety Theatre, London, England, in 1885 and in Melbourne, Australia, in 1886.
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Boy & Bear
Boy & Bear is an Australian indie rock-folk music band formed in 2009, consisting of David Hosking (vocals and guitar), Killian Gavin (vocals and guitar), Tim Hart (drums and vocals), Jonathan Hart (vocals, banjo, mandolin and keyboards), and David Symes (bass).
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Brisbane
Brisbane is the capital of and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland, and the third most populous city in Australia.
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Bush band
A bush band is a group of musicians that play Australian bush ballads.
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Bush dance
Bush dance is a style of dance from Australia, particularly where the music is provided by a bush band.
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Bushranger
Bushrangers were originally escaped convicts in the early years of the British settlement of Australia who had the survival skills necessary to use the Australian bush as a refuge to hide from the authorities.
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Celts
The Celts (see pronunciation of ''Celt'' for different usages) were an Indo-European people in Iron Age and Medieval Europe who spoke Celtic languages and had cultural similarities, although the relationship between ethnic, linguistic and cultural factors in the Celtic world remains uncertain and controversial.
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Click Go the Shears
"Click Go the Shears" is a traditional Australian bush ballad.
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Convict
A convict is "a person found guilty of a crime and sentenced by a court" or "a person serving a sentence in prison".
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Didgeridoo
The didgeridoo (also known as a didjeridu) is a wind instrument developed by Indigenous Australians of northern Australia potentially within the last 1,500 years and still in widespread use today both in Australia and around the world.
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Drover (Australian)
A drover in Australia is a person, typically an experienced stockman, who moves livestock, usually sheep, cattle, and horses "on the hoof" over long distances.
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Eric Bogle
Eric Bogle AM (born 23 September 1944) is a Scottish-Australian folk singer-songwriter.
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Folk music
Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.
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Frank the Poet
Frank the Poet (ca. 1810–1861) (real name Francis MacNamara) was a convict, transported to New South Wales from Cashel, County Tipperary, Ireland, who composed improvised verse expressing the convict's point of view.
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Gallipoli Campaign
The Gallipoli Campaign, also known as the Dardanelles Campaign, the Battle of Gallipoli, or the Battle of Çanakkale (Çanakkale Savaşı), was a campaign of the First World War that took place on the Gallipoli peninsula (Gelibolu in modern Turkey) in the Ottoman Empire between 17 February 1915 and 9 January 1916.
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Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu (22 January 1971 – 25 July 2017), also referred to since his death as Dr G Yunupingu, was an Indigenous Australian musician.
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Gurrumul
Gurrumul is the debut album for Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu.
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Heavy metal music
Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom.
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I Was Only Nineteen
"Only Nineteen", "I Was Only Nineteen" or "A Walk in the Light Green" is the most widely recognised song by Australian folk group Redgum.
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Indigenous Australians
Indigenous Australians are the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia, descended from groups that existed in Australia and surrounding islands prior to British colonisation.
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Indigenous music of Australia
Australian Indigenous music includes the music of Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders, who are collectively called Indigenous Australians.
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John Schumann
John Lewis Schumann (born 18 May 1953) is an Australian singer, songwriter and guitarist from Adelaide.
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John Williamson (singer)
John Robert Williamson AM (born 1 November 1945) is an Australian country music and folk music singer-songwriter multi-instrumentalist, television host and conservationist.
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Lee Kernaghan
Lee Kernaghan OAM (born 15 April 1964) is an Australian country music singer, songwriter, musician, guitarist.
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Moreton Bay (song)
"Moreton Bay" is an Australian folk ballad which tells of the hardship a convict experienced at penal settlements around Australia, in particular, the penal colony at Moreton Bay, Queensland which was established to house convicts who had reoffended in settlements in New South Wales.
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Mucky Duck Bush Band
The Mucky Duck Bush Band, often called Mucky Duck, is a Western Australian Australian folk and country music band or bush band formed in 1973 and still very much active today, in Perth and Western Australia.
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Music hall
Music hall is a type of British theatrical entertainment that was popular from the early Victorian era circa 1850 and lasting until 1960.
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Music of Australia
The music of Australia has an extensive history made of music societies.
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National anthem
A national anthem (also state anthem, national hymn, national song, etc.) is generally a patriotic musical composition that evokes and eulogizes the history, traditions, and struggles of its people, recognized either by a nation's government as the official national song, or by convention through use by the people.
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New Theatre (Newtown)
The New Theatre is an amateur theatre company in the inner western Sydney suburb of Newtown, Australia.
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Penal transportation
Penal transportation or transportation refers to the relocation of convicted criminals, or other persons regarded as undesirable, to a distant place, often a colony for a specified term; later, specifically established penal colonies became their destination.
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Redgum
Redgum were an Australian folk and political music group formed in Adelaide in 1975 by singer-songwriter John Schumann, Michael Atkinson on guitars/vocals, Verity Truman on flute/vocals; they were later joined by Hugh McDonald on fiddle and Chris Timms on violin.
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Rock music
Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.
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Roots revival
A roots revival (folk revival) is a trend which includes young performers popularizing the traditional musical styles of their ancestors.
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Sara Storer
Sara Bettine Storer (born 6 October 1973, Wemen, Victoria) is an Australian country music singer-songwriter and former teacher.
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Scandinavian folklore
Scandinavian folklore or Nordic folklore is the folklore of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland and the Faroe Islands.
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Sea shanty
A sea shanty, chantey, or chanty is a type of work song that was once commonly sung to accompany labor on board large merchant sailing vessels.
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Sheep shearer
A sheep shearer is a worker who uses (hand-powered)-blade or machine shears to remove wool from domestic sheep during crutching or shearing.
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Slim Dusty
Slim Dusty, AO MBE (born David Gordon Kirkpatrick; 13 June 1927 – 19 September 2003) was an Australian country music singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer.
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Stockman (Australia)
In Australia a stockman (plural stockmen) is a person who looks after the livestock on a large property known as a station, which is owned by a grazier or a grazing company.
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Swagman
A swagman (also called a swaggie, sundowner or tussocker) was a transient labourer who travelled by foot from farm to farm carrying his belongings in a swag (bedroll).
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Sydney City Trash
Sydney City Trash is a Sydney-based Country/Punk band consisting of Mitch Hell (vocals, lyrics), Matty "Browny" Brown (lead guitar), Paddy Finn McHugh (rhythm guitar), Jamie "Jim Mongrel" Skjeme (bass), James Eric Bones (fiddle, mandolin) and Austin Ringo Citizen (drums).
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Tex Morton
Tex Morton (born Robert William Lane in Nelson, New Zealand, also credited as Robert Tex Morton; 30 August 1916 – 23 July 1983) was a pioneer of New Zealand and Australian country and western music, vaudevillian, actor and circus performer.
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The Black Velvet Band
"The Black Velvet Band" (Roud number 2146) is a traditional folk song collected from singers in Australia, England, Canada, Ireland and the United States describing how a young man is tricked and then sentenced to transportation to Australia, a common punishment in the United Kingdom during the 19th century.
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The Bulletin
The Bulletin was an Australian magazine first published in Sydney on 31 January 1880.
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The bush
"The bush" is a term used for rural, undeveloped land or country areas in certain countries.
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The Bushwackers (band)
The Bushwackers Band, often simply The Bushwackers, is an Australian folk and country music band or Bush band founded at La Trobe University in Melbourne in 1971.
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The Seekers
The Seekers are an Australian folk-influenced pop quartet, originally formed in Melbourne in 1962.
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The Wild Colonial Boy
"The Wild Colonial Boy" is a traditional anonymous ballad of which there are many different versions, the most prominent being the Irish and Australian versions.
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Waltzing Matilda
"Waltzing Matilda" is Australia's best-known bush ballad, and has been described as the country's "unofficial national anthem".
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Yothu Yindi
Yothu Yindi (Yolngu for "child and mother") were an Australian musical group with Aboriginal and balanda (non-Aboriginal) members, formed in 1986 as a merger of two bands formed in 1985 – a White rock group called the Swamp Jockeys and an unnamed Aboriginal folk group.
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_folk_music
