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Thread #26044   Message #2188768
Posted By: Bob Bolton
08-Nov-07 - 03:05 AM
Thread Name: Help: Looking for the Cobbers-Australian folk band
Subject: RE: Help: Looking for the Cobbers
G'day Terry,

I'm not from down the Illawarra Region (Bulli is/was coal mining town down that way - and the Illawarra Folk Festival is one of the really nice 'smallish' folk festivals) - and I can't think of current links for Bert, Bob & Wayne ... but Vince Brophy has a fairly successful solo career doning a mixture of Irish and Australian material (78 'hits' on Google).

Johnny Spillane remains present and active around the Illawarra area - great whistle player / handy piper. Found in all sorts of 'floating' arrangements with members of Wongawilli Bush Band, Chloƫ & Jason Roweth (formerly Us not Them) and quite a few other groups.

1984 would be around the time Bruce Cawthorne was down south, working with Cobbbers (... ?).

Regards,

Bob