about

Olya and Rob Willis are well known for their work in collecting traditional Australian folk.

Rob and Olya Willis


of interest

*Rev Stanley George Drummond (1885-1943) Methodist Minister and founder of the Far West Childrcns health scheme, which cares for disadvantaged outback children.

Ebb Wren

Finding Ebb Wren
The Ebb Wren Story
The Performer
Dance Tunes

The Forbes Flood

 

Ebb the Performer

" When I was 6 years old we shifted into Canowindra in 1919 and the Rev Stanley Drummond was the Methodist Minister an Canowindra and! was a bit of a Bobby Brcen (a famous boy soprano of the era.) and! had a very very good voice for a boy and the Rev.

"Stanley Drummond* used to take me all around his parish and I used to sing for the people on a Sunday. I petformed with him for 3 years and its a strange thing - possibly that early experience never ever made me feel stage shy.

"I can get up and play in front of one person or a thousand people and it makes no dtfference, because I'm not playing for them I'm playing for myself and that's just the way I feel when I get up to do something. It's just as though there is nobody there and I'm playing for myself"

- Ebb Wren, 3 May 1989.

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