Ben Cherry interviewed by Barry McDonald in the Barry McDonald folklore collection, 1970-1989 [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 178019
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Cherry, Ben, 1909-, performer
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research and personal copies; written permission required for public use.
- Description:
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- 1987
- 5 sound cassettes (ca. 275 min.) : analog, mono.
- Series:
- Barry McDonald folklore collection, 1970-1989.
- Summary:
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Folkloric recording: Ben Cherry plays the accordion, sings, whistles and recites Australian folk songs and recalls local history around Armidale, New South Wales, accompanied by his wife Dorothy Cherry, Cathy Ovender, Chris Sullivan and performer Mark Rummery; Ben Cherry discusses his violin playing and his technique; musicians in Kingstown; his family's record collection; the instruments he can play; working on a station and for N.S.W. Railway; his family; various dances; violin and accordion playing; concertina players; the instruments played around Kingstown and Uralla; accordion players; his childhood; old bush MCs; Victor Cherry; people attending dances; the decline of bush dances.
Ernie and Violet Baker of Kentucky; his home; being a rabbiter; a Kangaroo hunting song and other hunting stories; the songs his family used to perform; the sociable nature of country dances; the job of an MC at the dances; picnic sports day; fights and fueding; waltzing competitions; Dorothy Cherry tells a story; Ben Cherry discusses the Aboriginal Faulkner family from Uralla; Aboriginal dances; musicians from the Armidale region; playing technique on the concertina; Aboriginal singers; the technique of vibrato; fiddle playing and tuning techniques; railway stories; playing for the last time at a dance in 1957 or 1960; working as a drover; Bill Smith; demonstrates vibrato on the violin; and discusses his preference for violins.
- Full contents:
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- CASSETTE 1, Side A, Barry McDonald, singing:
- Wild colonial boy (fragment)
- Ben Cherry, singing:
- Wild colonial boy (fragment)
- Accordion music: Air, Wild colonial boy
- Mazurka (unidentified)
- Waltz, Under the willows
- Fair, fair with golden hair
- Starry night for a ramble
- Waltz, The gathering of the clans
- It's a long way to Tipperary
- Singing: It's a long way to Tipperary (fragment)
- Recitation: Travelling down the Castlereagh (fragment)
- Accordion music: Come to Erin
- Schottische (similar to Mudgee schottische)
- Waltz, Bagman and swagman
- Recitation: Bagman and swagman (parody)
- Whistling: Green grow the rushes, O
- Side B, Ben Cherry, accordion music:
- What's the matter with father
- Jenny Lind polka
- Where the Mississippi wends its way
- Recitation and singing: Old bark hut (fragment)
- Whistling: Barn dance, Up like Lou
- Barn dance, No. 2
- Polka (unidentified)
- 3 varsoviana tunes (unidentified)
- 3 step tunes (unidentified)
- Mark Rummery, violin music: (unidentified)
- (unidentified)
- Accordion music: (unidentified).
- CASSETTE 2
- Side A, Ben Cherry, violin music:
- Ladies come down to the fair
- Rakes of mallow
- A-hunting we will go/The jolly miller
- The bagman and swagman
- Recitation: The bagman and swagman (parody)
- Violin music: The girl left behind
- 6/8 set tune (unidentified) (fragment)
- CASSETTE 3, Side A, Ben Cherry, singing:
- Barbara Allen (fragment)
- Side B, Ben Cherry, recitation:
- The Battle of the Boyne
- CASSETTE 4, Side A, Ben Cherry, violin music:
- Leaving Tipperary
- 2/4 set tune (unidentified)
- Wait till the clouds roll by Jenny dear
- Side B, Ben Cherry, mouth organ music:
- Over the waves
- Somewhere my love
- Barry McDonald, accordion music: (unidentified)
- Ben Cherry, mouth organ music:
- Leaving Tipperary.
- CASSETTE 5
- Side A, Ben Cherry, fiddle music:
- Waltz (medley on I love you)
- Stone at Dan Murphy's door
- Ring the bell watchman
- Schottische (unidentified)
- Pack up your troubles
- Side B, Ben Cherry, fiddle music:
- Schottische, Up like Lou (fragment)
- Schottische (unidentified) (fragment)
- Whistling: Schottische (unidentified)
- Schottische (unidentified)
- Fiddle music: Schottische (unidentified)
- Waltz (by Bill Smith)
- Girl I left behind me
- Wait till the clouds roll by Jenny dear
- Set tune (unidentified)
- Leaving Tipperary (fragment)
- Redwing
- Jolly miller
- Wait till the clouds roll by Jenny dear (repeat)
- Rakes of mallow
- Schottische (similar to Mudgee schottische)
- Schottische (unidentified) (fragment)
- The bagman and swagman
- Waltz, Under the willows
- Waltz, After the ball is over
- The bagman and swagman (parody)
- Starry night for a ramble (fragment)
- Waltz, Seamus O'Brian
- Waltz, The merry widow.
- Notes:
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- Recorded between 1 February and August 1987, at Armidale, N.S.W.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Subject:
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- Cherry, Ben, 1909- -- Interviews
- Rummery, Mark
- Folk musicians -- New South Wales -- Armidale -- Interviews
- Folk singers -- New South Wales -- Armidale -- Interviews
- Folk music -- New South Wales -- Armidale
- Accordion music -- New South Wales -- Armidale
- Singing -- New South Wales -- Armidale
- Recitations
- Violin music -- New South Wales -- Armidale
- Whistling music
- Armidale (N.S.W.) -- Social life and customs -- History
- New England (N.S.W.) -- History
- Occupation:
- Other authors/contributors:
- McDonald, Barry, 1955-, interviewer
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Barry McDonald folklore collection, 1970-1989.
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- Until 2057 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1987
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