Charlie Burgess
Charlie Burgess (1908-), Tumbarumba, NSW, plays accordion, and provided details of some of the Australian tunes in this archive, as described by John Meredith.
"My first contact in Tumbarumba was Charlie Burgess who played button accordion and had a good stock of dance tunes he had learnt from his father. He, his father and a Mrs Woods used to have a band, a 'Buffalo Band' he called it, as they used to play for socials organised by that lodge with the amazing name of 'The Royal and Ancient Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes'. Charlie took all his tunes at a brisk pace and, like most good musicians, with a tapping foot ... He told me he was born at Adaminaby in 1908. His father was a miner who worked at New Chum Hill and around Kiandra; his father's people were English and his mother's Scottish." -- (adapted from) J Meredith, R Covell, P Brown, Folk Songs of Australia Vol 2, UNSW Press, 1987, p258-9.
There is a recording of Charlie Burgess plays accordion for the John Meredith folklore collection in the National Library of Australia in Canberra, from Sept 1983.
