In April 2006 the Don Henderson Project was conceived after the roaring success of 'The Songs of Chris Kempster' double CD at the National Folk Festival in Canberra.
A year later in April 2007 the Don Henderson Project was launched at the National Folk Festival with the mission to raise interest and finance to produce a CD of Don's songs.
The interest was there and the finance came in the form of sponsorship from Don's friends, those who sang and recorded his songs, unions, folk festivals, community organisations, folk federations and folk clubs.
The result is a double CD with 40 songs, one CD of Don singing and the second of others singing his songs:
Declan Affley, Alex Hood, Gary Shearston, Ann Bermingham, Dave de Hugard, Bill Berry, Danny Spooner, Helen Rowe, Griff Bignell, Geoff Wills, Terry Hannagan, Annette Hood, Mark Gregory, Craig McGregor, Sally Henderson and Tommy Leonard
The tracks for 'The Songs of Don Henderson' have come from a variety of sources, recordings dating between 1965 and 2007.
Among them are studio, concert and home recordings on every medium from reel-to-reel tape, LPs, cassette tape to digital recordings, restored where necessary to the best quality achievable without losing the original atmosphere.
'The Songs of Don Henderson' is released today through Shoestring Records [SR 81]
CD launch
28 December at the
Woodford Folk Festival
The Don Henderson Project is established under the auspices of the Queensland Folk Federation
see http://www.shoestringrecords.tv/
and http://donhenderson.com.au/
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