Oral History of Work in Australia

Bert Ellard – Port McDonnell, S.A. – Farmer & Musican

INTERVIEW: Bert Ellard -1969

 

PLACE: Port McDonnell ,South Australia

 

NOTES:

Met Bert Ellard at Port McDonnell South Australia, where he spent his youth. He is an outstanding informant who gave me many dance tunes on the accordion and mouth organ. Now in his mid-eighties, he takes a critical attitude to his own performance. Apart from his tunes he sang one song. Son of a small farmer who used to do some boot-making on the side, he described life including entertainments, shearing sheds and bush work in the district.

 

Wendy Lowenstein 1972

 

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LOWENSTEIN FAMILY COLLECTION

NATIONAL LIBRARY AUSTRALIA ORAL HISTORY

STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIA ORAL HISTORY

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    Bush Music,Songs,Poems, Dance and Intrumental Music, FOLKLORE & FOLKMUSIC, Port McDonnell, South Australia, South Australia /

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    Martie Lowenstein, is the holder of the Lowenstein Family Collection, a complete set of over 1200 interviews recorded by Wendy Lowenstein, author and pioneer Australian oral labour historian specialising in Australian working life. Permission to use the interviews for research and education is obtained by contacting this website. The Lowenstein family holds all rights to this collection of interviews recorded between 1967 and 2002.

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