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

Rob and Olya Willis


 

 

Ebb Wren

Finding Ebb Wren
The Ebb Wren Story
The Performer
Dance Tunes

The Forbes Flood

Dance Tunes


"I used to play for the Quadrilles and all of them even on a mouth organ!

1 forgot 'em now, that's the bloody trouble because I never carried them on. Different styles of dancing come in and they just simply faded out.

Look, it was greatfor me when I was a young fella, 12, 13 or 14 to go along to a shearin' shed dance up around the Cudal, Canowindra area. You'd go to a shearin' shed, you see, there'd be an old fella sitting there on the accordion, you see. I'd be on the mouth organ, me fat her would be on the fiddle and there we'd go and we'd play for these dances and of course the old man he went back to the 1800s and he knew all the old first set, second set quadrilles and the likes of that."

- Ebb Wren, 3 May 1989.

 

EBB WREN'S HORNPIPE

Hornpipe

 

EBB WREN'S SCHOTTICHE

schottiche


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