Some of our favorite links
Visit our fellow bush bands and bush music soloists in Australia (not all have websites)
Ants Bush Band (Victoria [1976- ])
Ants Bush Band (another site)
Apple Shed Sugar Gliders, The (nee Buttoneers) (Tasmania)
Aussie Mossie Bush Band (Ivanhoe, Victoria [9 km NE of Melbourne])
Bandicoots (Queensland [1950s])
Bandicoots (another site)
Beat Around the Bush Band (Melbourne, Victoria)
Bell Bird Bush Band (Sydney, New South Wales)
Billabong Band (Melbourne, Victoria)
Blackboy Jam Bush Band (Sorrento [Perth], Western Australia)
Bloodwood (Alice Springs, Northern Territory)
Blue Dog Bush Band (Nambour [Sunshine Coast, just north of Brisbane], Queensland)
Blue Gum (Kensington [Sydney], New South Wales)
Blue Mountains Bushfire Brigade German Band
Bluey Humpers Bush Band (Preston [Melbourne], Victoria)
Bluey Humpers Bush Band (another site)
Bogaduck Bush Band (Adelaide, South Australia [1975-1978])
Boree Log, The (Melbourne, Victoria [1970-1973])
Bottom Pub Ceilidh Band, The (northern Tasmania)
Briagolong Bush Band (Victoria)
Brumbies Bush Band (Boronia [Melbourne], Victoria)
Bullamakanka (Burleigh Heads, Queensland)
Bullamakanka (another website)
Bunyip Bush Band, The (Sydney area, New South Wales)
Bush Bandicoots, The (Western Sydney, New South Wales)
Bushfire (Lidcombe [Sydney], New South Wales [1985-87]; evolved into Maranoa)
Bushfolk (Sydney)
Bushland Boogie (Eurobodalla, New South Wales)
Bushrangers Bush Band
(western suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales)
Bush Remnants, The (Melbourne, Victoria)
Bush Remnants, The (another site)
Bush Remnants, The (yet another site)
Bushwackers (Melbourne, Victoria)
Bushwhackers (Sydney, New South Wales [1953-1957])
Bushwahzee (Mitcham [Melbourne], Victoria)
Bushwahzee (another site)
Caddam Wood Bush Band (Bunbury, Western Australia)
Celtic Fire (Sydney, New South Wales)
Dave Clark (Adelaide Hills, South Australia)
Coachwood Bush Band (Razorback, New South Wales)
Cobbers Bush Band (Upwey, Victoria [34 km east-southeast of Melbourne and 2 km west of Belgrave])
Crossfire Bush Band (Narangba, Queensland [30 km north of Brisbane])
Currawong Bush Band (Sydney area, New South Wales)
Currency Lads (Earlwood [Sydney], New South Wales)
Currency Lads (another site)
Dave's Bush Music Show (David Isom) (Melbourne)
Paddy and Edie Dawson (Tasmania)
Emu Creek Bush Band (based in the Greater Bendigo district of Central Victoria, c. 150 km northwest of Melbourne)
Emu Creek Bush Band (another site)
Ewecalyptus Bush Band (Happy Valley, South Australia)
Warren Fahey (solo artist) (Potts Point [Sydney], New South Wales)
Fair Dinkum Bush Band, The (Sydney, New South Wales)
Flying Wombat Band (Coburg, Victoria [8 km north of Melbourne])
Flying Wombat Bush Band, The (Brisbane, Queensland)
Franklyn B Paverty (Canberra, ACT)
Franklyn B Paverty (another site)
Franklyn B Paverty (yet another site)
Free Selectors (Melbourne, Victoria)
Grandvillains (Granville [Sydney], New South Wales [1980-85]; evolved into Bushfire)
Haslam's Creek (Sydney, New South Wales)
Heathcote Bushwhackers (Sydney, New South Wales [1953]; evolved into Bushwhackers [1953-1957])
Heritage Fiddle Ensemble (Tasmania)
Home Brewed Bush Band (Bundaberg/Bargara, Queensland)
Inland Navigators, The (Sydney, New South Wales [1981- ])
Mike Jackson (solo artist) (Coburg, Victoria [8 km north of Melbourne])
Larrikins, The (Sydney, New South Wales [1971- ])
Lazy Harry (aka Mark Stephens) (solo artist) (Beechworth, Victoria)
Lost'n'Found (Holmesville, New South Wales)
Mad Hatters Bush Band, The (Turramurra [Sydney], New South Wales)
Mango Jam (Townsville, Queensland)
Mangrove Jack (Edmonton [just south of Cairns], Queensland)
Maranoa (Lidcombe [Sydney], New South Wales [1987-98])
Moreton Bay Bushwhackers Band (Brisbane, Queensland [1950s])
Moreton Bay Bushwhackers Band (another site)
Moreton Bay Bushwhackers Band (yet another site)
Mucky Duck Bush Band (Perth, Western Australia)
Mucky Duck Bush Band (another site)
Murrumbidgee Rattlers (Sydney, New South Wales)
Nodding Thistles (Bathurst, New South Wales)
November Shorn Bush Band (Cumnock, New South Wales)
Numguts Bush Band (Perth, Western Australia)
Outback (Newcastle, New South Wales [2 hours' drive north of Sydney])
Outback (another site)
Paddys River Band (Penrose, New South Wales)
Paddy's Wombat (Melbourne, Victoria)
Paddywack Bush Band (Perth, [northern] Tasmania)
Paradiddle (Warrandyte, Victoria [24 km east- northeast of Melbourne)
Paterson's Curse (Albury-Wodonga, New South Wales/Victoria [1979-1982])
Pioneers Bush Band, The (Bickley [Perth], Western Australia)
Playing Possum (Murwillumbah, New South Wales)
Ragamuffin Bush Band (Katoomba, New South Wales)
Rakish Paddy (Tasmania)
Rambling Bilbies, The (Perth, Western Australia)
Rang Tang Block Bush Band (Canberra, ACT)
Rantan Bush Band (Mount Gravatt [Brisbane], Queensland)
Rantan Bush Band (another link)
Reel Matilda, The (Sydney, New South Wales)
Reel Matilda, The (another site)
Rocky River Bush Band (Onkaparinga [30-40 minutes south of Adelaide],
South Australia)
Rough Bark (northern Tasmania)
Rouseabouts (aka The Rattling Good Bush Band) (Sydney, New South Wales [1978-c. 1983])
Royal Bounty Bush Band (Brisbane area, Queensland)
Rum & Raspberry (Dave Clark and Kathy Townsend) (South Australia)
Ryebuck Bush Band (Sydney's longest running bush band [1978- ])
Scrub Turkey (Sunshine Coast [just north of Brisbane], Queensland)
Shenanigans (Melbourne, Victoria)
Shenanigans (another site)
Simply Bushed (Sydney, New South Wales)
Slapdash (Tasmania)
Snake Gully (Cairns, Queensland)
Snake Gully Bush Band (Harbord [Sydney], New South Wales)
Southern Cross Bush Band (Quakers Hill [Sydney], New South Wales [1980- ])
Southern Cross Bush Band (another site)
Southern Cross Bush Band (Bassendean [Perth], Western Australia)
Southern Cross Bush Band (Bassendean [Perth], Western Australia) (another website)
Steptoe Bush Band (Ridgeway, Tasmania)
Steptoe Bush Band (another site)
Stone the Crows Bushband (Capalaba, Queensland)
Stringybark Bush Band (aka Paddy Melon) (Turramurra [Sydney], New South Wales)
Sunup (Sydney, New South Wales)
Sydney Coves, The (Chatswood [just north of Sydney], New South Wales)
Tallowood Band (Coffs Harbour [on the mid-North Coast of New South Wales])
Tantallon (Tasmania)
Tantallon (another site)
Terra Australis (New South Wales; evolved into The Blowflies)
Three Corner Jack Bush Band (Boronia [Melbourne's outer east], Victoria)
Mic Travers (solo artist) (southeast Queensland)
Tuckitinya Australia (Sydney, New South Wales)
Tuckitinya Australia (another site)
Tuckitinya Australia (yet another site)
Rick E Vengeance Bush Band (Melbourne, Victoria)
Vinegar Hill Bush Band (Carlingford, New South Wales [22 km NW of Sydney]
Wallaby Stew Bush Band (Gooseberry Hill, Western Australia [east of Perth])
Wayfarers, The (Brisbane, Queensland [c. 1962-2004])
Wedderburn Old-Timers (214 km northwest of Melbourne, Victoria)
John Williamson (solo artist) (New South Wales)
The Windjammers (Gosnells [Perth], Western Australia)
Wongawilli Band (based in the Illawarra region, 130 km south of Sydney, New South Wales)
Woolies Home Band (dance band in Canberra area)
Jeanette Wormald Bush Band (from the Northern Mallee region of South Australia, 220 km northeast of Adelaide)
Jeanette Wormald Bush Band (another site)
Bush bands in New Zealand
Battered Hats Bush Band (Palmerston North, North Island)
Bill & Kath (Warkworth [Auckland], North Island)
Bushfire (Christchurch, South Island [1970s-1990])
Bush Telegraph (Culverden, North Canterbury [near Christchurch], New Zealand)
Canterbury Bush Orchestra (Canterbury [near Christchurch], South Island [1977-1995]; evolved into the ceilidh/dance band Shindig)
Colonial Fayre (Christchurch, South Island)
Dun Mountain Distillery Bushband (Nelson, South Island, [1999- ])
Ginger Minge Bush Band (Dunedin, South Island, [c. 1976-c. 1978])
Gumboot Tango (New Plymouth, North Island)
Gumdiggers Bush Band (North Island [1987-1998])
Pioneer Pog 'n' Scroggin Bush Band (Dunedin, South Island [1980-2004])
Woolly Daggs Bush Band (first New Zealand bush band; formed by Phil Garland) (Christchurch, South Island [1967-1972]; evolved into Canterbury Crutchings Bush & Ceilidh Band in 1972)
Bush bands in Europe
Buckley's Chance (London, England, United Kingdom)
Buckley's Chance (another site)
Rolf Harris (Thameside, England, United Kingdom)
Bush bands in North America
Clancy Dunn and the Jillaroos (Agoura [Los Angeles], California)
Seona McDowell (solo artist) (Cleveland Heights, Ohio)
The Silver Bush Band (Santa Rosa [north of San Francisco], California)
Dave Winstone Aussie Bush Band (Santa Barbara, California)
Australian dance and dance music
Australian Colonial, Bush
& Traditional Dances
Australian tunes
The Old Bush Songs, edited by A. B. Paterson (Sydney, 1906) (Project Gutenberg EBook)
Tune finders
Australian and Irish tunes in PDF format (from The Sydney Coves website)
Bush music festivals
Illawarra Folk Festival (based in the Illawarra region, 130 km south of Sydney,
New South Wales)
John O'Brien Bush Festival, The (Narrandera, New South Wales)
Uranquinty Folk Festival (Uranquinty [near Wagga Wagga], New South Wales)
Causes we believe in
Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition
West Virginia Highlands Conservancy