PERFORMANCES

Besides concert performances of songs about convicts, bushranging, gold mining, and other traditional Australian bush songs, Don and Margaret draw on material they perform with the Forties - Tolpuddle: the Australian Connection, Shellback Sheila: the working lives of sailors in verse and song
by Cicely Fox Smith 1882-1954, Chanties from the Nimrod,  and Yarri of Wiradjuri.

Their presentation Trawling the Southern Oceans  considers the maritime history of the southern ocean from the convicts destined for the penal settlements at Port Arthur and the infamous Macquarie Harbour, attempts to escape, the perils of wild Bass Strait, shipwrecks, whaler men, sealers and intrepid explorers. Tasmania's history provides a wealth of enthralling stories that have been told in song and verse.