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1970 Port Jackson Folk Festival

25 Apr 04 - 10:19 PM (#1170820)
Subject: 1970 Port Jackson Folk Festival
From: GUEST,bluegrasser

Can anyone help?
I'm trying to find a copy of an LP, produced by Tony Warren, of the 1970 Port Jackson Folk Festival (Sydney, Australia). The Album featured a band called 'The Travelling People.


10 Aug 08 - 10:26 PM (#2410201)
Subject: RE: 1970 Port Jackson Folk Festival
From: GUEST,john goodall

macquarie university library has, or had, a reel tape of several artists, including declan affley, from the event. of indifferent quality but interesting


11 Aug 08 - 01:16 AM (#2410255)
Subject: RE: 1970 Port Jackson Folk Festival
From: Bob Bolton

G'day bluegrasser and John Goodall,

Macquarie University turned over its tape collection (lodged by New South Wales Folk Federation) to the National Library of Australia (Music Department ... or Oral History ... ?). I found this when I enquired about tapes I had lodged with the NSW FF collection.

Regards,

Bob


12 Aug 08 - 11:36 PM (#2412197)
Subject: RE: 1970 Port Jackson Folk Festival
From: GUEST,Gerry

I looked at the Macquarie University Library online catalog and found this item listed as "Temporarily Unavailable." I asked what that meant and got this reply:

"The stack a/v material is kept in our Rare Book Room, a closed area in our
basement. One of the overhead water ducts ruptured in this room, wetting
part of the collection. It has been made 'Temporarily unavailable' while our
conservators examine each piece that was damaged to see if it can be
repaired.

"The conservators anticipate that the evaluation and repair of the material will
take months."

I don't know how to square this with Bob Bolton's information, above.