Arthur Foster
Arthur Foster, Killarney Vale, NSW provided details of some of the Australian tunes in this archive.
Portrait: [1], "Better known as Cassidy, Arthur is the brother of Charlie Foster, and plays fiddle, banjo mandolin and is a virtuoso performer on the gum leaf."
The National Library of Australia holds aural recordings of interviews conducted with Arthur Foster. He was interviewed by
- John Meredith in March 1984, [2], Also available online [3]
Charlie Foster "gave me the address of his elder brother, Arthur 'Cassidy' Foster, who was living in retirement at Killarney Vale on the Central Coast, and whom I visited soon after the Tumbarumba expedition. Arthur, who had worked as a Telecom linesman, had travelled more than his brother and had thus picked up more tunes. As well as fiddle, he played mandolin and was a virtuoso player on the leaf ... Born in 1909, Arthur was the elder brother. He told me that both boys were taught to play the fiddle by their father" -- (adapted from) J Meredith, R Covell, P Brown, Folk Songs of Australia Vol 2, UNSW Press, 1987, p260-1.
