I have heard a poem that clearly fits the description of the request recited by Col Wright, who runs the "Merry Muse" Folk Club in Canberra. It is quite a long virtuoso piece with the atmosphere really larded on. The lad who was raised out in the fields and woods equates his violin playing to the wild sounds about him and speaks much of the ability of the violin to call up scenes and feelings from his upbringing.

I can't locate any sort of Internet address for Col (I suspect he is too old a luddite for this sort of nonsense) but his home telephone number is: 61 02 38 2424. The best internet contact I can suggest is via the homepage for "Monaro Musings", the magazine of the Monaro Folk Music Society - the Canberra area group.

Their URL is: http://www.spirit.net.au/~gramac/MFMS/mfmsindex.html.

I hope this is of some help,

Regards,

Bob Bolton