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Tom's Aussie Muster
& Bush Music Show
with Recover Your Dream
with Tom Lovett
6pm - 8pm Sundays

 

     

Tom's Aussie Muster
Bush, Celtic & Old Time Music Show
with Recover Your Dream
On-air since 1997
Sundays 6-8pm, Blue Mountains Community Radio 89.1 FM
tomlovett@pnc.com.au

Two hours of traditional and modern Australian bush, folk and Celtic music mingled with interviews and talks with folk buffs, performers and characters.  The first hour is for modern Australian bush and country ballads, and rollicking Irish, Scottish and other Celtic, Anglo, European, Canadian and American folk songs, tunes and dances.  The second hour concentrates on traditional Australian music, bush dances, songs, poems, recitations, yarns and stories about Australian folk life and current events in the Bush Music and Bush Dancing scene and interviews and stories about people who are overcoming ‘insurmountable’ obstacles to fulfilling their dreams.
 

Some performers and buffs mustered on this program 

Aitch, Singer/Songwriter/Reciter, Poet, Performer, All Over
Jaoquin Amenabar, Prof.Bandoneon, Conservatoria, BuenosAires
Baxter Black, Cowboy Poet, Author, Radio Commentator, Arizona
Suzie Benitez, Director, Filippino Bayhanihan Folkloric Group
Sonia Bennett, Singer/Songwriter, Bush Musician, Sydney
John Bianca & members, Bush Telegraph Band, Beechworth
Alex Bishop, Ryebuck Bush Band, Sydney
Julie Bishop, American Contra Dance Teacher, Sydney
Eric Bogle, Singer / Songwriter, Adelaide
Bernard Bolan, Singing Solicitor & Songwriter, Spruiker, Sydney
Bob Bolton, Musician/Teacher, Bush Music Club Inc. Historian
Leanne Botham, Singer/Songwriter, Springwood, Blue Mountains
Ian Brierley, Bush Story Teller and Reciter, Canberra, ACT
Julie Briggs, Organiser, Narrandera John O’Brien Bush Festival
Jane Brownlee, Fiddler, Teacher, Wongawilli Band, Sydney
Colin Carrington, Bush Poet & Reciter, Bendigo, Victoria
Alan Chick (Chiko) Swag ‘n Billy Bush Band, Narrandera
Ian Crook, Musician/Dance Caller, Fair Dinkum Bush Band, Gosford
Connie Cullen, Nurse Manager, Speaker, Comedian, Sydney
John & Amanda Daly & members Currawong Bush Band, Sydney
John Dengate, Singer/Songwriter, Reciter, Sydney
David Di Santi, Accordionist, Wongawilli Band, Festival Organiser
Pat Drummond, Singer / Songwriter / Producer, Blue Mountains
Peter Ellis, Author, Caller,Teacher, Emu Creek Bush Band, Bendigo
Shiela Fielding, Speaker, Reciter, Impersonator, Sydney
Dan Fernandez, Bush Curator, Screensound Australia, Canberra
Bog Foggin, Bush Musician, Fiddler, Sydney
Ray Grieves, Author, Researcher, Musician, Bushlark, Blue Mntns
Patrick Harte, Kate Lysiak, Kent Learned, Gang Gangs, B/Mtns
Lane Hinchcliffe, Writer/Composer & medical student, Sydney
Margot Hitchcock, Cajun Dance Teacher, Melbourne
Graeme Johnson, (The “Rhymer from Ryde”) Bush Poet
Denis Kevans, Folk Singer & Songwriter, Poet & Reciter, B/Mtns
John Lane-Smith, Author, Keynote Speaker, Mt. White, NSW
Malcolm Leyland (of Leyland Brothers) TV Documentary Maker
Steve Lockwood & members of Sydney Coves Bush Band

Gary Lowe, Bush Poet, Berkley Vale NSW
Karen Lynne, Singer / Songwriter, Leura, Blue Mountains
Bob Magor, Bush Poet, Speaker, Sheep Farmer, Myponga, S.A
Rod McDonald, Bush Musician, Katoomba, Blue Mountains
Bob McInnes, Bush Musician, Scottish Fiddler, Nowra, NSW
Peter McMahon, Bush Musician, Instrument Maker, Teacher, Sydney
John Monro, Peter Titchener, Kat Kraus, Colcannon Band, Adelaide
Annette & John Morey, Swag ‘n Billy Bush Band, Narrandera
Alan Musgrove, Bush Musician, Singer, Collector
Carrl Myriad, Leader, Ragged Band, Celtic Singer/Songwriter, Sydney
Gregory North, Bush Poet, Entertainer, Radio Presenter, Linden NSW
Paddy & Glori O’Brien, Performers, Singer/Songwriters (The Irish Trio)
Lawry Olafson, Folk Singer & Songwriter, BC., Canada
Ros Pappalardo Singer/Songwriter/Musician,WomenInDocs, Brisbane
Lee Anne Proberts, Exec Asst, Int’l Council for Traditional Music, ACT
Lisa Quast, Champion Poet, Performer, Narrandera
Bluey Quilty, Bush Chef, Bush Poet & Reciter, Leura, Blue Mountains
Don Richmond, Bush Musician, Dance Caller & Teacher, Currawong
Joanne Rolfe, Lavande Narrandera Lavender Farm
Helen & Tony Romeo, Bush Musicians, Southern Cross Band, Sydney
Jason & Chloe Roweth, Singers/Songwriters, Musicians,
George Royter, Singer/Songwriter, Nowra NSW
Anthony & Lisa Simon, Scottish/ Irish Ceili Dance Teachers, Sydney
Letty & Nathan Scott, Aboriginal Painter, Music Student, Sydney
Melvyn Shreeve, Musician, Farmer, Macarthur Sounds, Canowindra
Ian Speed and Family, dance coordinator, Glen Innes Celtic Festival
Ray Simpson, BlackberryJam Bush Band, Nerial Ck Folk Festival
Noel Stallard, (aka. Fr John O’Brien) Poet & Impersonator, Brisbane
Roger Walter, Australian Folk Music & Heritage Centre, St. Marys
Margaret & Bill Winnett, Sydney Irish Ceili Dance Teachers, Sydney
George Winston, Blue Mountains Refugee Support Group
Jennifer & Hazel Wrigley, Scottish Musicians/Composers, Orkney Is.
Martin Wyndham-Read, Folk Singer & Songwriter, U.K.
Annika Wythes & Henry Bucket, Students, Canberra ACT
Gary Young, Film Director/Producer, Sydney
Jim Young, Producer, Australian Heritage Dancers Inc., Sydney