Vince Holland
Vince Holland & Keith Holland, Mudgee, NSW, provided details of some of the Australian tunes in this archive.
Portrait, [1], "Fred Holland with three of his talented musical sons, Vince, Neville and Merv."
The National Library of Australia holds aural recordings of interviews conducted with Vince Holland. He was interviewed by
- John Meredith in February 1952, [2]
- Alan Scott in 1956, [3]
- John Meredith in 1956?, [6] Vince and Keith Holland, Lindsay Carr and Duke Tritton interviewed. Also available online [7]
Fred Holland "had a good repertoire of bush dance tunes, which he has passed on to five of his six sons. The five who are musically minded are all talented performers on button accordion and mouth organs ... These two men were the best accordion players of the younger generation John Meredith met on his field trips; they had a quite characteristic style, a smooth sweeping one in perfect tempo for old-time dancing." -- J Meredith, H Anderson, Folk Songs of Australia Vol 1, UNSW Press, 1967, p227, 230.
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