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An exploration of the ‘traditional’ songs of Pākehā New Zealand. This session delves into the origins, adaptations, and transmission of these songs, particularly during the New Zealand folk revival from the 1950s onwards. There may be some serious myth-busting as the recent decades are approached.
May include:
Come All You Tonguers
Davy Lowston
(Whalers’ Rhymes) (New Zealand Whales)
(Shore Cry) (the Beautiful Coast of New Zealand)
(A Long Time Ago) (the Voyage of the Buffalo)
Alexander Whisker’s Song
The Nightwatch Song of the Charlotte Jane
Captain Matheson
The Shanty by the Way
Bright Fine Gold
I’m A Young Man (the New Chum)
The Wakamarina
The Dying Bushman
Down In the Brunner Mine
Soon May the Wellerman Come
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