Jeff Corfield
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Jump to navigationJump to searchJeff Corfield, (1948 - ) collected some of the Australian tunes in this archive.
Jeff Corfield performs in some 15 or so recordings held by the Top End Folk Club, including:
- Darwin Ceilidh Band and Jeff Corfield perform at Gun Turret in Darwin in January 1985 in the Top End Folk Club collection. [1]. Recorded on 27 January 1985 at Gun Turret, Darwin, N.T.
- Pat Somers, Brendan Williams, Jeff Corfield, Jamie Corfield and Bronwyn Corfield perform at Gun Turret in Darwin on St Patrick's Day 1985 in the Top End Folk Club collection in March 2017, [2]
- Jeff Corfield, Laurie Moore and Steve Carter perform at the Gun Turret in Darwin in September 1984 in the Top End Folk Club collection in September 1984, [3]
The National Library of Australia holds aural recordings of interviews conducted with Jeff Corfield. He was interviewed by
- Rob Willis in August 2017, [4].
- Alex Hood and Annette Hood in September 2008, [5]. Jeff Corfield talks about his family; his education, leading to career in agricultural science; his interest in music, childhood influences, '60's folk revival; Newcastle folk clubs; being involved in Maitland Bush Band; collecting folklore around Newcastle; John Meredith, Pete Seeger; politics and sociology; moving to Perth and marrying there, the folk scene in Perth; a move to the Kimberley, Kununurra Research Station; racial conflicts; country music; collecting oral histories; moving to Darwin (1978); involvement in folk festivals and folk clubs, his projects and music; 'Uncle Val', recording sessions with him; N.T. archives; performing at National Folk Festival; Mill's Sisters; string band music; Darwin Festival (2002); Folk Federation and Folk Trust; Townsville Folk Music Club; Don Henderson; running workshops at National and Woodford festivals, inter-generational music; a trip to U.S.A., meeting Pete Seeger; Seaman Dan; the need to unite research and folk singers around Australia; use of theater techniques in performance; working in Indonesia with his agriculture expertise: Indonesian string bands; his Mongolian and Chinese experiences; sings one of his compositions, 'Global Warming song.'
