G'day Deirdre,

An icon of the "Folk Revival" in Australia - Ron Edwards - lives up the mountain behind Cairns in Kuranda (where they like to call their little town: "The Air-conditioned Suburbe of Cairns"). Ron's great contributions were in the earliest publications of folk songs as "broadsheets" (... to be sung!) wonderful illustrations, prodigious collecting work ... and, as a result, a stack of publications you couldn't jump over with a long run-up and vaulting pole!

Ron did run various folk clubs (on a very successful "benevolent dictator" basis!) but I hope he has found someone else to do that sort of thing, nowadays. I'll see if the email address I have (on my home computer) still works and I'll ask him what he would recommend for late August.

Regards,

Bob