Peter Ellis has kindly shared his excellent series of six articles on the evolution of Australian 'Bush Dancing' via the Victorian Folk Music Club website here.

Anyone interested in Australian traditional music and dancing would get a lot out of Peter's well-researched observations. I first read these articles in Trad&Now magazine over the last 12 months and they raised my awareness of how Aussie bush bands are a fairly modern creation. For instance, he says this about the modern Bush dance: "It certainly has no connection at all with any tradition of the bush."

IanH