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NEW HOLLAND HONEY EATERS—30’s RADIO SHOW
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They bring the folk music and folkways of the American southeast alive through the performance of theme concerts concentrating on aspects of the region's social and musical history, and through practical teaching workshops. Stan Gottschalk has had an interest in the music and the social history of the American south for over thirty years and has performed at numerous festivals all over Australia. In addition he has published a fiddle instruction manual, Old Time Mountain Fiddle (1977); received an Australia Council grant to research traditional fiddle styles as represented in the US Library of Congress archives (an extensive research paper, Three Traditional Southern Fiddlers: Their Tunes and Their Playing Styles, was produced in 1979); and has been a regular contributor of articles on the physics of music for Mugwumps Instrument Herald, USA (1979-1980); and a regular contributor of articles, transcriptions, etc. Cumberland County Rag, Sydney (1975-1990). Recordings: I Done Tried to Find My Way, Lord, But I Fell Out the Door; recorded and broadcast in full by ABC Radio National's Music Deli program. John Brown's Body and recorded and broadcast in full by Canberra Stereo Public Radio (1995, 1997). The Year of 1900 ~ The American South at the turn of the Century recorded live at The Attic, Hobart, 2001 by audio illusion Contact: STAN GOTTSCHALK 9 WELMAN STREET |
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Don’t Touch That Dial: Radio and the Making of Country Music About the Show The ‘String Band Behind the Times’ - The New Holland Honey Eaters - will wind your radio dial back to the 1930s with their acclaimed Don’t Touch That Dial. The show starts with a brief history of how the radio influenced the change of traditional rural music into a commercial product. The history will be brought to life with tunes, songs, slides, short readings and snippets of old recordings. To illustrate what they are talking about, the Band then takes on the personas of four staff members of mythical small Southern radio station WYOY, and in the second portion of the show they transport you right back to the early days of broadcast country music during the Great Depression. It is 1938, and the station is delivering its first network-syndicated “live-toair” segment of its successful ‘barn dance’ radio show. But,unbeknownst to the network, money is so short that our fourintrepid station staff are forced to portray all the on-air guests themselves. Dressed in period garb and working around a single broadcast microphone under an illuminated ‘On The Air’ sign, the Band treats the audience tothe likes of The Boone County Revellers string band, ragtime, La Famille Sonnier and their Cajun tunes, theEast Alarka Jubilee Quartet and Jug Band and their varied repertoire, Rufus Clapsaddle and His Lone StarWagoners providing some Western swing, the male and female duets The Darnell Brothers and The CadesCove Girls as well as ‘surprise special guests’. This is ‘real-time’ radio, and the Band keeps up a constantradio chat while changing instruments and personas, managing a dash of country comedy, and working the In Concert at the National Folk Festival (2010) sound effects board as they greet and farewell their ‘guests’. The show runs for about two hours (including an intermission between the ‘acts’). You are guaranteed to be both informed and entertained. About the Band The New Holland Honey Eaters (Stan and Rebecca Gottschalk and Steve and Jane Ray) have been performing together since 1988, and specialise in roots music (mostly pre-1945) from the broad tradition of the southeastern United States. They perform themed concerts which put the music into its historical context via wellresearched narrative, continuous slides from photos of the era, and readings from historical sources. The group has delighted audiences at the National, Cygnet, and Tamar Valley and folk festivals and on ABC RadioNational.
You can see several snippets from the show at: http://www.youtube.com/user/NewHollandHoneyEater , and you can read more about the Band and hear some mp3s by clicking The New Holland Honey Eaters tab at: http://www.stanspage.com/index.html . Steve Beats the Straws While Stan Fiddles Rebecca and Jane
You can see and hear several snippets from the show at: http://www.youtube.com/user/NewHollandHoneyEater
And you can read more about the Band by clicking The New Holland Honey Eaters tab at: http://www.stanspage.com/index.html
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LISTEN TO TRACKS FROM THE CD OF THE SHOW |
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Don’t Touch That Dial!
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