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Hi Folks,
As I enter the final semester of my law studies, I'm starting
to emerge from the deep-study committments that have kept me so quiet
the last few years, current projects include:
Festival Folk Sing Album,
honouring the music of Judy Small - My offering s a recording
of The Future's Exchange, with wonderful input from Liz Frencham, Penny
Larkins and Peter Vadiveloo
No McDonalds in Tecoma compilation
CD of local artists - I've written a song spesh for this one, which I
will be recording with the fabulous Tracey Roberts.
Look for me on Into the Music on Radio National where a live
recording of So Lucky from Woodford Folk Festical will be played on Sat
February 2nd and 9th (at 4.05pm) and then the following Mon nights at
9.05pm
And... Possibly a new band... stay tuned.
Gigs....
Solo
Songwriting Society of Australia/SongsOnStage Concert
Mars Hill Cafe
331 Church Street, Parramatta, New South Wales
Sun 21st April
Salisbury Hotel,
118 Percival Rd, Stanmore NSW
Totally Gourgeous - touring nationally
in October/November 2013
Stay tuned for dates...
Palm Creek Festival
Near Townsville, Qld
7-10 June
Nanga Festival, WA
11-13 October 2013
Anyone interested in booking Penelope penelope@penelopeswales.com
Latest Releases:
Legacy
My most recent release, is "Legacy : 20 years of Tpolical Songwriting"
CD /DVD which I hope will be a full swag of interestingness for you
all. As
well as 15 of my best political songs from over the years on CD, the
DVD has an
8-minute music video of "Black Carrie", live footage from Woodford
Folk Festival and the Harp in Sydney, a slideshow of weird and
wonderful
pictures I took on my travels around the world, and some beautifully
inspirational videos from international environment groups.
You can see the video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyI5hAvkIug
For the title track, I've re-written my 1992 song "Legacy" to bring it up to date with current global events and concerns, and included a new song "Black Snake Range" about my lovely mountains here. In addition, I've re-recorded "So Lucky" finally to my satisfaction and also "No Way In, No Way Out" as the original version from 1991 was a too poor-quality a recording to put next to the other material. It's OK on Archive Vol.2, because they're all of a piece, but right next to the spanky recordings I made later, it sounded a bit tatty. But the new version I'm very happy with. Huge thanks to Mal Webb and Peter Haydon for all their help in recording
The songlist is a follows:
Legacy 2010
Black Carrie
Mother Song
Lionhearts
Our
Apartheid
Black
Snake
Range
Car
No
Way In, No
Way Out
Safe
Home
Guenevere and
the Fire
The
Old Man in
the Rock
Aunty Betty
Madness,
Mines
and Mortgages
Steel-Hearted
Annie
So Lucky
Some of these songs have been unavailable for years, as the
albums there were
on have been out of print, so I'm very happy to be able to make them
available
again.
Pun Kin
The Latest totally Gourgeous offereing is Pun Kin - and if I
do say so myself, I think it's the best album yet. For more info, visit
www.totallygourdgeous.com
If you're looking for some other great
acoustic/roots
artists playing in your area, have a squiz at
www.tradmusic.com a
great gig guide
with gigs all
over the world, run by really nice people.