Martyn Wyndham-Read

Although an Englishman, folksinger Martyn Wyndham-Read has non-etheless become one of the biggest ambassadors of Australian folk song, having spent over 30 years playing music absorbed in the musical tradition of drovers, bush workers, and cane cutters. Having spent period employed being a bush employee himself, Wyndham-Read first fell in love with the original Aussie folk music while employed on the South Australian sheep plantation in the first ’60s. Just 18 yrs . old at that time, Wyndham-Read discovered himself enraptured with the music he noticed from the neighborhood plantation hands, and after departing his job, journeyed the Australian countryside, playing in pubs and trading music with those he chanced to meet up. By 1967, he previously befriended Australian-born folkie Trevor Lucas and was recruited to become listed on Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick to donate to Bert Lloyd’s traditional Leviathan. Shortly Wyndham-Read would discover himself at the guts of the Australian folk music revival, documenting his very own debut with Nic Jones along with a ensemble of close friends and playing the united states from end to get rid of before returning house to Britain, where he discovered a likewise receptive viewers. With over 30 albums to his credit, Wyndham-Read continues to be a dynamic touring act, regularly joined from the like-minded No Man’s Music group, showing commentaries on Australian background, reciting bush poetry, and providing outback anecdotes which have gained him a status as a enormously warm and hypnotic performer.