John Meredith

John Meredith, AM spent half a lifetime travelling the bush with his tape recorder, and his vast collection of tapes, containing some 5000 items, is housed in the John Meredith Collection in National Library in Canberra, and was the source of details for a significant number of the tunes in this archive.

Some of this work was published in the well regarded volumes:

• J Meredith, H Anderson, Folk Songs of Australia Vol 1, UNSW Press, 1967
• J Meredith, R Covell, & P Brown, Folk Songs of Australia Vol 2, UNSW Press, 1987

See the extensive article and obituary for him at Australian Folk Songs - John Meredith, AM.

Or have a look at his Wikipedia page.

John Meredith interviewed by Phillip Ashton [1]

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