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The New Baylor Brothers’ CD is Here – The Baylor Brothers have announced their long awaited follow up to Front Porch Favourites by releasing Songs from Down the Line. For this release, they combed their respective archives and found some great stuff that had been hanging on the vine, along with some originals. Donal tells [...]
The Baylor Brothers have announced their new album Songs from Down the Line, to be released at the 2011 National Folk Festival. Andy, Donal and Peter Baylor hardly need an introduction to enthusiasts of authentic roots music in Australia. Whether separately or together, they have tirelessly plied their trade over more than 30 years and [...]
In March this year we featured a review of Donal Baylor’s new CD Town and Country Fiddler featuring Donal and a host of great Australian musicians – Steve Gilchrist – mandolin, Pete Fidler – Dobro, Mick Harrison – banjo, Hamish Davidson- banjo, Lachlan Davidson – mandolin, Andy Baylor – guitar, Mike St.Clair-Miller – double bass, [...]
Town and Country Fiddler by Donal Baylor Reviewed by G. McGrath editor, australianbluegrass.com Town and Country Fiddler is about as good a name as one could come up with for this album as it not only describes the fiddle and guitar master responsible for it, but it conjures up great imagery of the music contained [...]
Some good news for all you Bluestone Junction fans in Victoria, is that will be playing support for Uncle Earl at the East Brunswick Hotel, next Thursday, 11th March. Pete Fidler tells us that the show kicks off at 8.30pm and that Donal Baylor is coming down from the ACT to join them. They will [...]
Here’s an update from Donal Baylor’s fiddle workshop in Melbourne next month. Two space have become available due to a late cancellation. If you are interested you can contact Sean Kenan on Phone: (03) 9380 5643 or email: seankenan@hotmail.com. The workshop fee is $60. The workshop is at Fancy Yourself Fiddling located at 316 Park St., [...]
News from Donal Baylor is that he will be presenting a fiddle workshop in Melbourne next month that might be of interest. The workshop is at Fancy Yourself Fiddling located at 316 Park St., Carlton. The workshop will run from 2:00pm to 5:00pm on Saturday 13th March. Workshop space is limited to a maximum of [...]
Donal Baylor has been a sideman for acts as diverse and Mic Conway and Slim Dusty and also been an integral part of such bands as the Dancehall Racketeers and Bluegrass Parkway. He’s been a two-time Australian fiddle champion and a recipient of a Kentucky Colonel honorary award. Now, finally, he’s released his first solo [...]
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Here’s some news from Donal Baylor. I caught up with Donal when he made a brief appearance at this year’s Harrietville Festival playing with Bluegrass Parkway’s Tribute Show. Donal is about to release a new CD which features him on fiddle and guitar. He is also joined by Hamish and Lachlan Davidson, Steve Gilchrist, Chris [...]
Chris Jacobs from Bluestone Junction dropped us a line this week to let us know that Bluestone Junction are taking to the roads next month, making their way north to play the Escape ArtsFest in Shoalhaven on New South Wales’ southern coast. We’re hitting the highway and heading north to meet up with our fiddle [...]
Donal Baylor has just advised us that he has launched his new website at donalbaylor.com. Donal also advises that he is working on a new cd project and will post us details on this as work develops. Thanks Donal, we also enjoyed the ongoing updates from your recent trip with Bluegrass Parkway to the USA. [...]
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