The Man and the Woman and the Edison Phonograph

June 28th, 2010

A song performed and filmed at the National Folk Festival, Canberra, April 2010. My boss, Gavan McCarthy, plays the double bass in it, and sent the link around at work. It moved me, ergo, I share.

You can read more about Fanny Cochrane Smith here and listen to her singing, recorded in 1903 here – “the first and last recordings of Tasmanian Aboriginal songs and language”.