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This is only a partial list of NZ folk records.
For a more complete data base, see Mike Harding's book,
When The Pakeha Sings at Home.

For all of the above categories, the database of the National Library of NZ Catalogue is worth searching.

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New Albums 

2018 Martin Curtis, The Sound of the Warning

2014 Marcus Turner, At Cardrona

2012 Graham Wilson, Billy on the Boil – from 1980s LP

2010 Rudy and Pat Sunde, 14 New Zealand Songs

2010 Niels Gedge, Between Two Lines

2009 Chris Priestley, Emile Bliss and Charlie Bean

2009 Don Franks, Safer communities together Bues

2009 Helen Dorothy, The Going Away

2009 Derek Kirkland, Daggy Bum Boogie

2008 Maritime Crew, Catlins Bound,

2007 Tracy Haskell, Festival Romance

2007 Bob Large, Large as Life

2006 Kiwi Country Boys

2005 Maritime Crew, Auckland to the Bluff, Rudy Sunde’s songs

2005 Dick Coker, Millionaire Songwriter, set of four CDs

2005 Jim Delahunty, His Second Last Concert

2005 Chris Presley, Uncovered,
    songs by Paul Metsers, Grahame Gash, Phil Powers, Chris Thompson,
   Julian McKean, Kath Tait, John Hanlon & Mark Laurent

2005 Tony Ricketts, Snap

2003 Dan Bergin, My Life‘s Been One Big Hole

2003 The Short Blacks, Unsweetened,

2002 wild geese, promises to keep

2002 Marcus Turner, Laid down (Chocolate)

2002 Twisty Willow, Maybe Sunday,

2002 Paul Bond Kiwi To the Core (As long as we beat Australia)

2002 Julian Ward, Song for Eddie

2002 Songs of New Zealand, (Sticky Beak)

2001 Big Muffin Serious Band, Heavens to Murgatroyd

2001 Paddy Bergen, My Sweet Town

2000 Run the Cutter, Passing Time

1999 Colonial Two-step, Songs of the North

1991 Colonial Two-step, New Zealand Tour

1998 Owen Hugh, Exits and Entrances

1998 Mike Harding, Past to the Present  (Posthole Song)

1997 Our land, Our music 2nd vol

1995 Our land, Our music 1st vol

1995 Bob Large, Companions, Soulmates and Judges

1993 Graham Wardrop, Signature


2002

    Rosalie and friends
    Songs for the Earth
    Available from Rosalie Steward $30

    This CD is the home-recorded product from up the Coromandal coast of a real "rural mum singing
     songs to her kids to keep a positive outlook on life." She also has an interest in Native American
     spirituality. Technically, not a polished CD, but authentic folk music.
 
    Wild Geese
   Promises to Keep
    Available from Brendon Connor $25

    Some of the songs Brendon sings are personal, and others call up NZ historical ghosts, like
    the miners of a now-derelict Westport coalmine ('Mist descending from a slate-gray sky'),
    the 1980s New Right greedies ('Rise up you men of Babel') and the boys who trained at
    Featherston's army camp, (Promises to keep, march on....! march on....!'), all done with
   Celtic moodiness created by their pipes, bouzoukis, bodhrans and Brendon's passionate singing.
    

    Carl Wyant
    It's All Undone. 

    Carl Wyant was a columnist with the Whangarei Report for the past 10 years, a 
    talented musician with an extensive knowledge of traditional music from his Californian
    homeland, acoustic blues with a dose of country style picking, and almost Dylanesque  
    lyrics.  He died last year, but his friends had occasionally recorded his playing, and made this CD.
  

    Roger White
    Riding on Silver Rails
     Available from [email protected] $27.50 ( CD $25 + $2.50 p & p)

    Mick Sibley writes: "A very good folk CD. Twelve original songs of which several should 
    become Kiwi folk classics. Roger plays great acoustic guitar, sings like he means it, and 
    his lyrics take you where he wants you. He tells some great tales of Destruction gully,
    Godwits, an old grey haired lady outside PaknSave and a train ride from New Lynn to Henderson."


 2001

    Peter Cape, Pat Rogers, Phil Garland, Chris Cape, Arthur Toms & John Sutherland
    I'm An Ordinary Joker:  songs of Peter Cape
    Available from Steele Roberts $58 (CD & coffee table book)

    Peter Cape is best known for his songs which are Kiwi classics. Funny, sentimental, satirical,
    historical, contemporary; they nailed down our emerging Kiwi identity in a way no one had ever
    done before. This CD has 23 of his songs, and is accompanied by a large hardbound book of Peter
    Cape's life, including many family photographs, a brief autobiography, explanatory material and 
    every one of his songs, with music, words, and chords, all lovingly compiled by Roger Steele.

    Tony Hillyard
    Hidden from the Eye of Chance
    Available from Tony Hillyard $20.50 ( CD $18 + $2.50 p & p)

    From one of Wellington's best known balladeers, a selection of traditional and contemporary
    English classics, all sung from the heart, and with impeccable guitar accompaniment: twelve
    of Tony's favourite ballads drawn from 30 years of singing in folk clubs in England and New 
    Zealand. Most NZ folk songs in the NZ Pakeha tradition have British roots; Tony, (like other 
    British trad singers in New Zealand, Bev Young and Debbie Gillanders), does us a great service
    by constantly keeping us our folk roots music alive here for us. 

    Bev Young
    The Tinkerman's Daughter
   
    Traditional Celtic folk songs from our well-loved Auckand singer. The reluctant pirate, The
    tinkerman's daughter, Beidh aonach amarach, Vanished like the snow, The leaboy's lassie.....

   Julian Ward
    Wellington Folk Music Festival 2000 - Video
     Available from Julian Ward 

     Julian Ward is a Wellington folkie and gifted video cinemaphotographer. When he
     made this beautiful video of the October 2000 Wellington Folk Festival at Brooklands
     scout camp, hidden in the ranges behind Wellington, he captured its spirit perfectly.
        Sample Real Video clips

    Phil Garland
    Swag O' Dreams SLC 261
     Available from Kiwi Pacific International

     Celebrating 150 years of Canterbury Settlement. 
     The old adage that "you must first understand the past before you can plan for the future" 
     is well represented here, with a varied mix of N.Z. trad and original about such subjects as diverse as:-
     Early Settlers & Immigration - Sheep Shearing - The  McKenzie Legend 
     Protest against Damming the Rakaia River -  Gold Mining - Hotel Restoration 
     Cobb & Co Coaching - Gambling - Swaggers - Trains  -  Farming - Property Development.

 2000

    Peter Mack and Noel Rutherford
     Uncertain Futures (CD) 
     Available from Noel Rutherford

     Palmerston North folk club stalwarts Peter Mack (uilleann pipes) and Noel Rutherford
     (celtic harp) both have terminal cancer, hence the album's title.

     But this CD of theirs is a celebration of life. Peter's own Tune for Emma-Lee,
     written for his daughter, is a delight, while Neil's Waitohi invoking the unending sound
     of the river of his childhood, affirms his belief in the continuity of life.
     
     There are also 16 traditional celtic tunes and a jazz piece.

    Uncle John's Band
     Small Town (CD) 
     Available from Andy Bassett
       Andy writes from experience about living in a small town / Where the locals stand and stare
                                   As you pass through me / On the way to who knows where.
       Andy's songs form boldly crafted pictures of what life holds for  the new-poor in New Zealand's
       provinces today.  Read his lyrics for yourself.

   SHINER
     Kiss The Kilkenny (CD)
     Available from Kevin McLoughlin NZ$25
       SHINER (Kevin McLoughlin, Steve Barkman, Vic MacDonald and Adrian Higgins) is a Dunedin 
       celtic/country band named after "Shiner" Slattery, a well known identity around North
       Otago and South Canterbury late last century.
       Includes The Stable Lad and presumably, "Hooray for the Swag and the Shiner."   

   Dave Jordan
     Pacific Crossings (CD)
     Available from Dave Jordan NZ$25
       As Dave now has MS, this is all-digital from composition software to CD. 
       It is a compilation of tunes, themes and musical pictures. 
       Not strictly folk, but a few folk melodies are evident.


1999
   Colonial Two-Step 
     Fields of the Gum  (CD)
     Review by Tony Ricketts:
      "Fields of the Gum is a beautiful CD, that includes several old 'gum' songs, as well as
       many others written recently by Bill and Kath, with great playing and great recording,
       the latter by my old friend Kerrin.  'I Only Spoke Portuguese' is, I think, the best   
       'traditional' folk love song since 'Buller to the Grey.' Try and get a listen to this, 
       even buy it without listening first; you  will not be disappointed."

   Colonial Two-Step
      New Zealand Tour (CD)
       "Bill and Kath have collected some great songs south of the gum-fields too. Together with 
       19th ballads like The Black Swans and The Wellerman, they have new versions of Scrub &
       Blackberry and Taranaki Spring, and also songs I have never heard before and fell in love
       with as soon as I heard them, like the T.T.Line, and Working For The Roads Board."(JA)
       
       Both CDs available from Bill & Kath Worsfold, RD3, Warkworth, NZ 

   Celia Briar & Mary Hubble.  
     An Phis Fluicht. (The Garden of Daisies) CBLI01, 1999. (CD)
     Available from Celia Briar 
       Celtic music from a highly talented pair of local folkies. Celia is a harpist from
       Palmerston Nth, and Mary is a flautist from Wellington. 

1998
   Mark Laurent & Brenda Liddiard
     Millennium Hippies (CD)
     Available from Amplifier
     Comments by Mark Laurent:
      "This is a very different album to any we have done before, and we hope that people will
       be pleasantly surprised. The songs are quite varied, both in style and content, and
       bassist George Barris radically transformed the album with his exquisitely tasteful 
       playing. There is also some beautiful celtic whistle from Duncan Davidson."

   Phil Tilbury
     Swimming the Clutha (CD)
     Phil's own South Island ballads.
     Available from Kiwi Pacific
   
   Kayte Edwards
     Emergenc-ee (CD)
     Kayte uses her wonderful deep voice to sing her urban woman's blues.
     Available from 9A Buckingham St, Melrose Wellington

   Owen Hugh
     Exits and Entrances (CD)
     A compilation of the best of Owen's songs from six earlier albums. 
      "Owen is an itinerant Scot who turns up at NZ folk festivals singing quiet evocative songs
       and playing his guitar accompaniment in that exquisitely gentle "James Taylor" style.
       Our favourite of Owen's  is 'The World Keeps On Turning,' so evocative of that old man near
       Levin we used to watch ploughing with his Clydesdale horses. Alas, it is not on this CD."(JA)
      Phone 0116-223-0318 in the UK, (or try Madness Music).
   
   Phil Garland 
     A Sense of Place (CD and cassette)
     12 of Phil's own new songs
     Available from Kiwi Pacific, SLC 250
     
   Mike Harding
     Past to the Present (CD)
     NZ regional songs from North to South (Posthole Song, Hills Of Coromandal, Up the Mangapapa,
 Gutboard Blues, Davy Lowston, By the Dry Cardrona, The Stable Lad, Black Matai)
     Available from Radio NZ  NZ 2000,
 
1997
   Jill Rogoff
    Across the Narrow Seas (CD)
     (Golden Vanity, Gartan Mother's Lullaby, Three Fishers . . .)
     Another fine album of Celtic songs by our expatriate Wellingtonian in
     Israel to match her gold-medal-winning Celtic Cradle
    
   Genus Focus 
     Look At The Sky (cass)
     Sarita & Camilla Murdoch, and Shelly Marie 
     Lively unaccompanied 3-part harmony, from trad to Dylan.
     Also the Fishfinger song and Kath Tait's Travellers in Your Eyes 
     Available from the Hamilton Acoustic Music Club, PO Box 1323, Hamilton, NZ 

  Hamilton County Bluegrass Band
     Since 1993, the original members of this 1960s band have occasionally
     got back together to perform. And recently they recorded ...  
     "Encore"(CD/cass) Available from Kiwi Pacific, SLC 245

   The Maritime Crew
    "Hoorah For Our Captain" Fo'c's'le Songs and Shanties (CD) 
     Gavin Asher , Lew Black, Peter Collier, Andy Hindley, Bob Large, Rudy Sunde , 
     John Walton, John   Watkins, Frank Winter.
     Available from Ode MANU 1533.

1996

   Kath Tait
     Bastard (CD)
     The best of Kath's songs 1978-1996, including The River of Life,
     Steel Hearted Annie, Poor Dim Sally, Hole in the Hedge and Bastard!
     Available by e-mailing Kath Tait 
     

   Bob Bickerton
    Music in the Glen (CD)
    Includes Bob's arrangements of songs and tunes collected from old South Island pipers
    who migrated from Scotland. Finalist in the 1997 New Zealand Music Awards.

1995
   Tony Chad
    Sun Over Kapiti  
    "...will appeal most strongly to those who enjoy soul-baring, gentle love songs" (Kevin Ikin)

1994
   Bob Large
    Companions, Soulmates and Judges (cass)
    10 of Bob's own songs, with help from Jayne Lovell, Ken Lee and Ruth Large.

Alphabetical List of Older Records 

Acoustic Confusion
-Hazy Days (LP) Real Groovy 1984.

John Archer, 
-Mangamahu (cass) private recording  1987 (Posthole Song, Thompson's Bus)

Ken Avery, 
-Paekakariki                                     (78)    1949
-When the Scrum is on the Ball                   (78)    1956
-Tea at Te Kuiti                                 (45)    1962
-Gumboot Tango/The Dogdosing  Strip at Dunsandal (45)    1963

Ballads to Blues

Band of Hope Jug Band
-The Band of Hope Jug Band (LP) Kiwi Pacific 196_.

Banjo Pickers Convention

Beggarmen
-Hi for the Beggarmen (LP) Kiwi 1970.

Bluegrass Expedition
-The Bluegrass Expedition (LP) Pye 1975.
-(Recommended) Settling In (cass). 1976 Available from Kiwi Pacific,  SLC 146

Bob Bickerton
-Music in the Glen (CD) 1996
 A very accomplished celtic mixture. Includes his own composition 'Kerrytpwn Jigs"
 Available from Bob Bickerton, Todd's Valley, RD 1 Nelson, Phone 064-3-545-0125
 
Thelma Blyth, 
-Thelma Blyth and theHCBB (LP) Kiwi Pacific 197_..
-An Evening at the Poles Apart (LP) Kiwi Pacific 197_.

 Paul Bond,
-In Sight of the Mountain (LP) Cityfolk 1985. (Scrub and Blackberry, In My Little Whare) 

 Bushfire
-Bush Justice (LP/cass) TRC 060 Available from Kiwi Pacific 1987(Taumarunui)  

Dave Calder, 
-Come in Stranger (with Panda Calder)(LP) Kiwi Pacific  1970.
   (Including his own "Sonata for Clawhammer", Dave Jordan's "Rosalind, My Friend",
   and also Cash, Lightfoot, Doc Watson, and Trad numbers)
-Sleeping Dogs (NZ film/video) 1977
   Dave wrote the title song for this prophetic film which predicted the  
   violence of the Muldoon era. 
  
Canterbury Bush Orchestra
-Swags to Riches (cass) 1979  Available from Kiwi Pacific,  SLC 158 
-Clear the Board: music for colonial dancing (cass)
 Available from Kiwi Pacific,  SLC 182 1981.
   
Canterbury Crutchings Bush and Ceilidh Band
-The Old Station Days (LP) Available from Kiwi Pacific,  SLC 144  1976   

Peter Cape
-New Zealand Vernacular Ballads (LP) Kiwi Pacific   1965 
-(Recommended) Peter Cape's Kiwi Ballads (cassette reissue of LP).
Available from Kiwi Pacific,  SLC 123 1975
   
"Cazna Gyp"
 ie. "Anzac Gypsies" ref. Bob Edwards 

John Clarke,
-Fred Dagg Live ( Gumboot Song, We Don't Know How Lucky we Are) EMI 1976

Tony Chad
-Sun Over Kapiti (CD) 1995
 Chad Publishing
 Personal songs by a Kapiti coast poet 

Lynn Clark, 
-The Gulls of Naxos (LP) Cityfolk 1984. 
   Lynn has a strong and beautiful voice. Most of the songs on this disc are
   trad Brit, or lyrical. Lynn's most memorable NZ song is the title track of
   the anti-nuclear compilation tape Send the Boats Away 

William Clauston, 
-Be Japers          (EP) 1960 (with Willow Macky's Tohunga, Capt. Cook,and Manawatu)
-Packing My Things  (LP) 1965

Neil Cleaver,
-Skidmarks on the Soul (cass) pve rec. 1990 (Taranaki Boys)

 Les Cleveland,
-Authentic NZ Ballads (Lyrics by Joe Charles, tunes by Cleveland, collected  
    from NZ old timers,"Mckenzie & his Dog, Black Billy Tea)   1960?
-The Songs We Sang: Folklore of World War II (LP) Kiwi LA 3    1965.
-More Songs we Sang    "      "    "    "  " (LP) Kiwi LA 6    1966?
-Bush Singalong     Songs of NZ Trampers...  (LP) Kiwi LC 11   1968?

Julie Collier, 
-(Recommended) The Coming of Age (LP/cass) EMI 1988
 12 of her own songs on NZ historical topics, well-produced by Radio NZ 
 (Rawini Boys, Coming of Age, We're going to right the Ronga) 

Neil Colquhoun, 
-Neil Colquhoun and Tamaki College Choir (LP) Kiwi Pacific 197_.

Max Cryer
-The Best of Max (incl. "The Kiwi Bird") (LP) Zodiac  ZPL 1037  1970s?
  
Alistair Cumming, 
-Alistair C. Cumming (LP) Kiwi Pacific 196_.


Martin Curtis 
-(Highly Recommended) Gin and Raspberry (LP) Cityfolk 1983. (Gin and Raspberry,) 
       A classic! Still being sold, in cassette form, mainly
       to Queenstown tourists.
-Back from the Hills (LP/cass). Cityfolk 1985.
-The Daisy Patch  (cass) Available from Kiwi Pacific, SLC 209
-Save The Wilderness  (CD) Gin and Raspberry Records 1995.  
-Below The High Country  (CD) Gin and Raspberry Records 1998
             ( the best of the above records)

Jim Delahunty, 
-The Shanty by the Way (EP).
-Little Mermaid 196_.

Rod Derrett, 
-Rugby, Racing, and Beer (LP) EMI SREG 30202   1978
 (with material from several 45s made in the mid 1960s)

Neva Edo, 
-The Folk Album  (LP).Viking 196_.
-The Irish album (LP) Viking 196_.

Bob Edwards, 
  a member of "Cazna Gyp"( i.e. Anzac gypsies)
  socialist and songwriter. (The Day the Pub Burnt Down, Old Billy Kirk, 
  The old McKenzie Trail) His songs are recorded 
  by many, including the Songspinners, William Clauson, John Hore-Grenell,
  and the Bluegrass Expedition)
 
Folk Festival concerts 

Rex Franklin, 
-The Good Old Days (LP) Viking  1970. (On the Takapau plains)
-Country Gold      (LP) Philips 1972. (When will it rain?)

Don Franks
-Marmite Sandwiches & Weetbix (private recording) 1996

Frank Fyfe, 
-In Concert (cass ) Jolly Roger 1980.  


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Phil Garland
-One Hundred Years Ago      (LP).  Action 1967.
-Down a Country Road        (cass) Available from Kiwi Pacific, SLC  87,   1971
-Song of a young country    (LP).  Kiwi Pacific                            1972.
-This is New Zealand        (LP).  Ode                                     1974.
-Colonial Yesterdays        (LP).  Kiwi Pacific                            1975.
-The Old Station Days       (cass).Available from Kiwi Pacific             1976.
-Swags to Riches            (cass).Available from Kiwi Pacific,  SLC 158,  1979.
-While the Billy Boils      (two cassettes) NZ Folklore Society fieldtapes 1980 
-Springtime inthe Mountains(cass/LP)Available fromKiwi Pacific,  SLC 178,  1984
-Wind in the Tussock        (cass) Available from Kiwi Pacific   SLC 200 
-Clear the Board            (LP).  Kiwi Pacific                            1985.
-Hunger in the Air          (cass) Available from Kiwi Pacific,  LRF 191,  1986.
-A Homestead in New Zealand (cass) Available from Kiwi Pacific,  KMC 6,    1986.
-How Are You Mate?          (cass) Available from Kiwi Pacific   SLC 212,  1990
-Waiting for the News              Independent,                            1994
-Under the Southern Cross,  (CD)   Available from Kiwi Pacific,  SLC 239,  1996
-A Sense of Place        (CD/cass) Available from Kiwi Pacific,  SLC 250,  1998

Gentle Annie
-Gentle Annie (LP) Ode 1982.

Genus Focus (Sarita & Camilla Murdoch and Shelly Marie) 
-Look At The Sky (Lively unaccompanied 3-part harmony) 
 Available from Hamilton Acoustic Music Club PO Box 1323, Hamilton, NZ    1997

Wayne Gillespie, 
-Wayward Son    (1983) EMI/Wizard Records (Number 37, Every Night I Thank the Lord...,) 
-New Locations  (1986) CBS                ('Invercargill')

Ginger Minge Bush Band
-'Ginger Minge Bush Band'(cass) Jolly Roger 1979.

Greenstones
-Introducing the Greenstones (LP) HMV 1965.

Murray  Grindlay,
-Night Train to Waiuku (45) EMI 1977 ("Night train..." re-recorded by Mike Harding)  

Hamilton County Bluegrass Band
   ...ten LPs were issued by Kiwi Pacific between 1968 and 1978 and are no longer in stock.
   However a pick of those recordings is now available on...
   "1968 to 1977" (CD/cass) Available from   Kiwi Pacific SLC 233  1993
   The band members got back together in 1993 and eventually produced a new recording...
   Encore (CD/cass)  Available from Kiwi Pacific,  and SLC 245 1997 

Peter Harcourt, 
-Land of the Long White Shroud HMV  mid 1960s? (September in Ohakune) 


Mike Harding
-Time on the Road   (LP)   Cityfolk       CFR 009  1984.
-From the Edge      (LP)   Cityfolk       CFR 018  1987 (Buddy Breathing, Shaky Isles)  
-One for You        (cass) Radio NZ       RR 929,  1989
-Songs of Local Folk(cass) Radio NZ       9338,    1993 
-Past to the Present(CD)   Radio NZ       NZ 2000  1998 ( Postholes, Night Train to Waiuku)

Jonathon Harper,
-Pictures (LP/cass) Available from Kiwi Pacific TRC 059    1986.

Dave Hollis, 
-Now as the Smoke Clears (cass). Jolly Roger 19_.
-After All These Years   (LP).   Private recording 1979.
-Caught Alive            (LP).   Private recording 1981.

Homegrown
-Homegrown (LP) Cityfolk 1981
-The Dice  (LP) Cityfolk 1983
 
"Howard Morrison Quartet"
-Battle of the Waikato     (45)  Zodiac Z451023
-George the wild(er) NZ Boy(45)  Tanza  GSP 073

Dave Jordan,
-(Recommended) Seasons (LP) Kiwi Pacific 1970..
(Gutboard Blues, Hills of Coromandal, State House Song)
-Away From Home (Recorded in England)
     
Kilderkin (Mitch Park, Paul Metzers, Janet MacLennan and Vicki Smith)  
-Kilderkin (cass)  (chorus songs)    Jolly Roger 1979.   Chest 6009
        (Grey funnel line, She moved through the fair, 
Chicken on a raft, Swag and the shiner)
       superb harmonies

Derek Kirkland
-Twenty Original Songs by... (cassette, private recording)  1989
 (Authentic Collector's Item) Derek is a farmhand with a real farmhand's view of  
 life. He is also a talented fiddle and mandolin player. His 'Mouse in the  
 Mash-tin' took me right back to my childhood days.
 
Kokatahi Band
-On Tour                 (LP/cass) Available from Kiwi Pacific SLC 97   1970
-Pride of the West Coast (LP/cass) Available from Kiwi Pacific SLC 187  1985

Graeme and Colin Max,
-Country Deal (LP) Kiwi Pacific 1969.


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Paul Metsers  (Paul Metzers)
-Original Songs         (cass)  Jolly Roger     
1978 (Farewell to the Gold, The Swag and the Shiner)
-A Song for You         (cass). Jolly Roger     1979 
(The Seal Children, People I Want To Be)
-In the Hurricane's Eye (LP).   Sagem   (UK)    1984
-Momentum               (LP).   Highway (UK)    1982
-Caution to the Wind    (LP).   Highway (UK)    1984 
(Farewell to the Gold, The seal children)
-Fifth Quarter                  Sagem   (UK)    1988 

Ian  & Jeannie McCook
-Combine (cass) Originals (Make the Change), trad NZ, and protest songs.
 Private recording at Hamilton   1988

Liz Merton
-"One" 1996?

Alan & Janet Muggeridge
-"R D 29" (Housework, Just One Little Number)
 Available from Rowan Studio, R.D. 29, Kaponga, South Taranaki  1988

Gary and Everill Muir, 
-A Bottle of Wine (LP) Kiwi Pacific 196_.

Val Murphy,
-My Way of Singing (LP)  HMV 1965?
-A Time to Sing    (LP)  HMV 1967.

John Norton...
-Sings his Own New Zealand Songs (LP).Kiwi Pacific 197_.

Ourselves Alone
-Irish Rebel Music Old and New (cass).Available from Kiwi Pacific TRL 005 1986  

Chris Penman, 
-Portobello Years (cass) Talking Dog 1988 ('Farewell to the Gold', and British trad songs)

Pioneer Pog 'n' Scroggin Bush Band
-1984 Playing for Pennies. (LP), PRA 2109 (Charlie's Bash) 
-1987 Pogonorhythms. (LP, cass)  Que 0002A (Bright Fine Gold, McKenzie)
-1987 'Pot o' Gold' track on Send the Boats Away (cass) Cityfolk
-1990 Sailors, Settlers and Shipwrecks; Maritime songs of colonial NZ (broadcast on Radio NZ) 
-1991 Hard Times; Songs of war and depression. (broadcast on Radio NZ) 
-1992 Love of the Land; Songs of agriculture and industry. (broadcast on Radio NZ)
-1993 Love of the Land (cass) Radio NZ (She'll Be Right)
-1996 The Pog Kit, NZ folk song and dance resource for teachers
-1998 Southern Bred  (video) a musical documentary of Otago 
-1998 Sesqui (CD) Otago 150th celebratory album.

Tony Ricketts, 
-Special Delivery (cass) Panic 1988 (Streets of Auckland)
-Easy St          (CD)     ?   1996
 Available from  [email protected]

Jill Rogoff
  (A former Wellington folkie now in Israel. Mostly traditional songs)  
-Keltic With Klezmer 1989
-The Celtic Cradle, winner of top USA awards  in 1995. 
-Across the Narrow Seas 1997,

Rua
-The Commonwealth Suite (CD) Available from Ode 1989
                               (Includes a celtic pipe version of Pokarekare Ana)
-Live in the Cathedral  (CD) Available from Ode 1992
-Harbour Lights         (CD) Available from Ode 1995

Scotsmen
-One More Couple Please (LP) 1975
-Two more Couples Please: music for Scottish country dancing (LP) Radio New Zealand 1976.

Song Spinners
-Songs of the Whalers      (EP). EA 26  1967.
-Songs of the Gold Diggers (EP). EA 54  1968.
-Songs of the Gum Diggers  (EP).        1969.
-Songs of Cazna-Gyp        (EP).        1970.
           All by Kiwi Pacific. No longer in stock.

Southern Cross Ceili Band
-Scottish ramble           (LP)   HMV 197_.
-Southern Cross Ceili Band (LP)   Ode 1979.

Mike Stanley, 
-Farewell to the Days of Sail (LP) Cityfolk 1986.

Stoney Creek
-Sweet moments (cass) Private recording 1983.

Redd Sullivan, 
-Redd Sullivan at the Poles Apart with the HCBB(LP) Kiwi-Pacific 1969.

Rudy Sunde 
-Songs of New Zealand  (cass/ CD) Available from Ode  MANU 1457     1993 
                      (Seasons in the Valley)
-Hoorah For Our Captain, Fo'c's'le Songs and Shanties (CD ) 
                       ( with Gavin Asher , Lew Black, Peter Collier, Andy Hindley,
                         Bob Large, John Walton, John Watkins &  Frank Winter)

Nick Swan, 
-Cry Murder (LP) Ode 1986. 

Tait, Kathryn
-Original songs      (LP).   Private recording 1983.  ( McKenzie Song, Old Jack Ryan)
-Looking For Nowhere (cass)  Private recording 1987  (Magic suburb, Tekapo)
-There's a third cassette too..???.            1998?
-and there are 4 songs written by Kath Tait on Lin van Hek's CD "River of Life".
                       
Tartan Clansmen
-Flower Of Scotland (cass) TRC  064         1987    Available from Kiwi Pacific
-By the Lochside    (cass) TRC  067         1988    Available from Kiwi Pacific 

Chris Thompson
 -Chris Thompson          (LP)      Village Thing UK        1973
 -Echoes from the Pit     (LP)      Direction               1975
 -Minstrelsy              (LP)      WEA                     1977 
 -Hometown Voodoo         (cass)    Jolly Roger             1981  
(Hamilton,  We need Oil)
 -The Natural Blues       (LP)      Cityfolk                1983 
 -The Road to Raglan      (cass)          Ode               1990
 -Far Out & Solid         (cass)          Ode               1992
 -Coffee Break            (CD and Cass)   MANU 1454         1993  
(fusion of folk, country & blues)
 -Song for Laura          (CD)            MANU 1502         1995  
(with Brendon Power on virtuoso harmonica )
 -Time Flies              (CD)            Wild Rose Music   2000  
Available from   Global Routes

Chris and Lynn Thompson, 
-Together (LP)  Ode 1985.
-Live in Concert (Ode) 1988
 
Three Bites of the Apple (Chris Aarons, Alice Bakker & Lyn de Groot)
-Three Bites of the Apple 
 No specific NZ words in their songs, but lots of Dutch Kiwi fun in their unaccompanied  
 3-part harmonies. (White Collar Holler, Java Jive, Acapella Stella)
 Nightshift Studios Christchurch   1992

Arthur Toms, 
-Trypots, Cradles and Gutboards: Settler Songs of New Zealand (LP) Radio NZ 1985.

Paul and Colleen Trenwith 
-Fresh from the Country  (cass)   1976.
-Brand New Day           (cass)   1986.
-Now to the King         (cass)   1987.
-Let the Light Shine Down(cass)   1990
-Sunrise                 (cass)   1993 All available from Kiwi Pacific

Tumbleweeds
-The Tumbleweeds Sing Folk Songs (LP) Viking 196_.

Marcus Turner, 
-Civil Servant (EP)   EMI 
-(Recommended) The Best is Yet to Come (LP) Cityfolk 1983.
-Live in the Club (The Chaps") cass. 1993 

When the Cat's Been Spayed
-Down the Hall...(CD/cass)  1993 Available from Kiwi Pacific, SLC 231,

Lyn Williamson, 
-In the land of Music (cass.)Available from Kiwi Pacific TRL 054  
 1986 (Family at the Beach)

Graham Wilson, 
-Paydirt                            (LP).       Eeyore 1980.
-The New Zealand Gold Rush Songster (cassette).  Down Under 1980.
-Billy on the Boil                  (LP).       Cityfolk 1982.

Yeomen
-Hootin' it up (LP) Viking 196_.(Aotearoa, Dr Stephen Ward)

Alan Young, 
-That's No Way to Get Along (LP) Ode 1984.

Beverley Young, 
-Bushes and Briars (LP) Ode 1986  


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Folk and Bluegrass Compilations

					
Ah De Doo Dah Day (LP) 
 Tony Brittenden, Hugh Canard, Phil Garland, Christine Smith.
 Odessa 1969.

An Evening at the Poles Apart Folk Club (LP) 
 Thelma Blyth, Hamilton County, Dave Jordan, Redd Sullivan, Bill Taylor.
 Kiwi Pacific 1969.

Auckland Acoustics (LP)
                    Tocker, Mahinarangi.
                    McKean, Julian.
                    Thompson, Chris, folk musician.
                    Thompson, Lynne, musician.
                    Tait, Kathryn.
                    Flatt, Chrissy.
                    Gillespie, Wayne.
                    Stanway, Denny.
                    Shepheard, Bob.
                    Smith, Nick, musician.
                    Oram, Brett.
                    Shiels, Mike.
                    Martin, Jason, musician.
                    Green, Chris, musician.
                    Garden, Steve.
                    Bousfield, Penny.
                    Acoustic Confusion (Musical group)
                    Siren (Musical group : N.Z.)
                                                       Real Groovy 1985. 

Ballads to Blues: Wellington Folk Festival, 1976 (cassette) 
 incl: Marg Layton, Paul Metsers, Mitch Park, Mike Stanley, Alan Young.
 Jolly Roger 1976.

Ballads to Blues: Wellington Folk Festival, 1977 (cassette) Grace Carpenter,
 El M'Fud, Dave Hart, Kilderkin, John Sutherland.
 Jolly Roger 1977.

Ballads to blues: Wellington Folk Festival, 1978 (cassette) Trish Davidson,
 Gurty's Frolics, David Hollis, Paul Hutchings, Graham Wilson.
 Jolly Roger 1978.

Ballads to Blues: Wellington Folk Festival, 1979 (cassette)Marg Layton,
 Paul Metsers, Pride of Holland Street, Marcus Turner.
Jolly Roger 1979. 

"Bush Singalong"
  Songs of NZ trampers, hunters, mountaineers, skiers, scouts.
  Les Cleveland, Tony Nolan, Ash Burton, Ken Avery.
  (Good Keen Man, No Boots, Don't You Think It Looks Peculiar, Tararua Ranges)
  (Useful), these songs are for communal singing in the hills.  They are  
  not intended to be 'performed' to entertain an audience in the city.  
  (LP) Kiwi LC 11   1968? 

Canterbury Folk Festival, 1977 (cassette).
 Jolly Roger 1977.

Canterbury Folk Festival, 1980 Farewell Concert (cassette).
 Down Under 1980.

Canterbury Folk Festival, 1980 Welcoming  Concert (cassette) 
 Dalriada, Warren Fahey, Martha Louise, Rural Delivery, Urban Renewal.
 Down Under 1980.

Christchurch Arts Festival Folk Concert, 1972 (cassette).
 Down Under 1980.

Christchurch Folk Festival 1973 (cassette)
 Canterbury Crutchings,Croodin Cant, Hamilton County Bluegrass Band.
 Down Under 1980.

Erupt into Song (cass)
 Neil Cleaver, Kayle Edwards, Janet Muggeridge, Chris Palmer.
 Taranki Pioneer Village 1986.

Folk '80 (LP) Dalriada, Wayne Finch, Jenny Kilpatrick, Mitch Park, 
 Threepenny Folly, Marcus Turner.
 Sausage 1980.

Folk Concert Down Under (LP) Don King, Rod MacKinnon, Val Murphy, 
 Arthur Toms, David Whaley.
 HMV 197_.

Folk Music at Moller's: the 5th Auckland Folk Music Festival, 1978 (LP)
 Amazing Hoggett, Bolick Brothers, El M'Fud, Martha Louise, Steve Moffat.
 Private recording 1978.

Folk Music at the Tennessee Jugge, Dunedin (LP) 
 Neil Copeland, Mingle Wood, Chris Noakes, John Penno, Southern Sunset, 
 Peter Wilkes.
 Salem 1971.

Gisborne Folk Festival, 1976 (cassette).
 Jolly Roger 1978.

Gisborne Folk Festival, 1978 (cassette).
 Jolly Roger 1978.

Homestead in New Zealand, A (Useful)   
 "The music of the settlers and pioneers fom early days to today"
 includes Bluegrass Expedition, Phil Garland, Kokatai Band.
 With a booklet of words, music, chords and tourist information
 Available from Kiwi Pacific KML  6   

Jade (LP) 
 Dave Chadwick, Mike Dew, Peter Conway.
 Private recording 1977.. 

National Banjo Pickers' Convention, Hamilton 1970 (LP)
 Marion Arts, Bill Clifton, Mountain Ramblers, Stoney Lonesome, 
 Tamburlaine, Max Winnie.
 Kiwi Pacific 1970.

National Banjo Pickers' Convention, Ngaruawahia 1969 (LP) 
 Penny Evison, John Hayday, Dave Jordan, George Stewart.
 Kiwi Pacific 1969.

National Banjo Pickers' Convention, Te Rapa 1968 (LP)
 Buckhead Strugglers, Clive Collins, Jim Doak,
 Hamilton County Bluegrass Band,
 Palmerston North Bluegrass Band, Pitt Ramsey.
 Kiwi Pacific 1968.

National Folk Festival, May 1970 (cassette) 
 Dave Branigan, Chris Cross, Penny Evison, Greasy Handfull,
 Don Milne.
 Private recording 1970.

Paths (LP) (Collecter's Item) 
 Paul Bond, Martin Curtis, Kathy Tait, Chris Thompson,
 Ian Turbitt.
 Cityfolk 1982

Port Nicholson Folk Festival, June 1974 (cassette).
 Private recording 1974.

Port Nicholson Folk Festival, June 1975 (cassette).
 Private recording 1975.

Sawyers Arms Folk Festival, Tikokino, 1977 (cassette).
 Jolly Roger 1977.

Sea Shanties (LP) 
 Gavin Asher, John Jones, John McGowan, Rudy Sunde.
 Ode 1986.

Send the Boats Away  (LP)
 Dave Chadwick, Lynn Clark, Martin Curtis, 
 Mike Moroney, Ken Ring.
 Cityfolk 1986.

Seven in One Blow (cassette) 
 Acoustic Confusion, Mike Harding

Singing Together Again (LP)
 (Macky's "Ballad of Captain Cook")
 Kiwi SLC 146   1976 

Song of a Young Country (LP)
 Kiwi SLC 101-102,  1972 (Gutboard Blues, The Day the Pub Burned Down)

Songs of the Shearers (cassette & LP) 1986
 Ernie Andrews, Jack Denley, Tony Hyland & Dusty Spittle
 Available from Kiwi Pacific, SLC 171 

This is New Zealand (LP) Ode 1973

While The Billy Boils Vols 1 & 2,    Down Under 1980
 compiled from the NZ Folklore Society archives by Phil Garland

Obtaining NZ Folk Records in 2002

From Old Folkies
Most of these records were made in small quantities and sold at folk festivals or at folk club concerts by touring singer-songwriters. So go to a folk club night or folk festival and ask around. You could ask if you might borrow a particular record.

Or visit them and listen to it. Or perhaps they will make a tape copy of an old out-of-stock record. Or they will sing the song for you and you can record them live. Take a tape recorder to the next folk festival.

78s and 45s
For really old recordings, watch out at garage sales and 2nd-hand shops for 78rpm records under the TANZA (To Assist New Zealand Artists) or His Master's Voice labels, with titles like Blue Smoke, Lonely Lonely Blues...You can find 45s from the 60s too, mostly comedy-folk in style like Rod Derrett's Rugby, Racing and Beer

Cityfolk
Those dedicated Hastings folk-heroes, Trevor Ruffell and Keith Gosney, produced some wonderful LPs in the 1980s. But all have been disposed of. Watch out in 2nd hand shops especially for Paths, and The Best Is Yet To Come.

I guess Trevor still has the master tapes. Hopefully, somebody will help him to re-release some of these treasures as CDs one day. You can reach him at [email protected]. Or write to; PO Box 919, Hastings, New Zealand

Jolly Roger Records
Mitch Park
E-mail [email protected]

Disclaimer
This is a non-commercial website.
Record shops or companies are only listed so that folk enthusiastists may find their hobby supplies.
Kiwi Pacific
An offshoot of publishers AH & AW Reed, they have produced many records under the various Kiwi labels (45s, LPs, cassettes) of Brit/USA folk-style songs written by New Zealanders with ethnic Anglo-saxon roots. The 45s are in 2nd-hand shops, and some records made from the 1960s onwards are still available from them mainly in cassette form. They have produced many records by Phil Garland, mainly of the old rural and seafaring ways, and sung in the bush-band style. They also sell records of songs in other NZ ethnic traditions. Contact Murray Vincent at...
Kiwi Pacific Records International Ltd
PO Box 826, Wellington, New Zealand
Phone 0064-4-389-6394
Fax 0064-4-389-6521
E-mail [email protected]

Mike Harding
PO Box 227, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Phone 0064-6-757-2008
E-mail [email protected]

Global Routes Distributors,
PO Box 91285, Auckland, New Zealand,
Phone 0064 9 302 3945, Fax 0064 9 3023954,
Email: [email protected]

Ode Record Company
This company has been taken over by BMG, which has thrown out a lot of Ode (SODET or MANU) albums which nobody had bought copies of for 3 years or more. The surviving albums can be ordered through your local NZ record store. Ask the shopkeeper to look in his/her BMG catalogue. Rural or overseas buyers could contact this shop:
Marbecks Record Shop
15 Queens Arcade, Auckland
Phone 64-9-379 0444
Fax 64-9-307 9275
Email [email protected]

Radio New Zealand,
a.k.a National Radio
a.k.a Replay Radio
PO Box 125, Wellington, New Zealand
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