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A fourth set of Australian Christmas Carols was written in the 1970s and given to the Wayside Chapel, Kings Cross. They have since disappeared. [5] Outback themes were common in his secular songs as well, in compositions such as "Bush Song at Dawn", familiar to many Australian children of the 1950s and 1960s through the school songbooks of the ...
The club was founded in October 1954 by the Australian folklorist and performer John Meredith, together with colleagues from Australia's first revivalist "bush band" The Bushwhackers, as a social and teaching club with the aim of popularising the style of bush singing and dancing promoted by the band and encouraging others to form their own performing groups; the band would participate by ...
The Bushwackers Band, often simply the Bushwackers, are an Australian folk and country music band or bush band founded in 1970. Their cover version of " And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda " (1976) was listed in the APRA Top 30 Australian songs in 2001, alongside its writer Eric Bogle 's 1980 rendition.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) operates four national radio networks, over 50 local radio stations, [1] the international service ABC Radio Australia and several digital stations. Most of the stations, as well as podcasts, are available on the ABC Listen app, [2] and ten radio stations are available via the ABC Television. [3]
ABC Country is a digital radio station, available on mobile devices, DAB+ digital radio, digital TV and online. A small number of self-help retransmissions, mainly in Western Australia and Queensland also carry the station's programme stream. It is owned and operated by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Take 40 Australia: 1993–2009 Network Ten/2Day FM: Andrew G: produced in association with the syndicated radio program of the same name. [28] Underground Rockit 1993-1994 MCT31 & Optus Vision Uccella Tilbrook 10.30 pm Thursdays Australian Rock & Pop. The Drum: 1993 Channel V Australia (on Foxtel) Ian "Molly" Meldrum: Revived on Fox-8 in 2002. [19]
Australian country music is a part of the music of Australia. There is a broad range of styles, from bluegrass, to yodeling to folk to the more popular. The genre has been influenced by Celtic and English folk music, the Australian bush ballad tradition, as well as to a lesser extant by popular American country music. [1]
In April 1948 the Labor government of Ben Chifley indicated that the introduction of FM broadcasts would occur on a nationalised basis with no commercial stations. [2] After the passage of the Broadcasting Act which gave the Federal Government full control of FM in Australia, it was suggested in January 1949 that the Chifley government would "soft pedal" the development of FM radio.