Hello & Goodbye By Sue Barrett

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The Australian Music Radio Airplay Project (Amrap), a Community Broadcasting Association of Australia initiative, provides an online database of new Australian music available to “community radio stations and their program makers” and sends them a monthly mailout of new Australian CD releases. Musicians can submit one release per week to Amrap. www.amrap.org.au/faq Grace Petrie (English singer/songwriter) begins her Australian tour at Woodford Folk Festival, then has gigs at Brunswick Heads, Brisbane, Burleigh Heads, Sydney, Katoomba, Canberra, Adelaide, Cygnet Folk Festival, Franklin, Hobart, Melbourne, Geelong and Illawarra Folk Festival. www. gracepetrie.com Entries close shortly for the Australian Songwriting Competition 2022. With sponsors including APRA / AMCOS,

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this is the 42nd time the competition has been run by the Australian Songwriters Association. For access to the entry platforms, go to: www.asai.org.au Folk Alliance Australia’s Festival Calendar is a useful tool for finding a festival and keeping up-to-date with any changes (e.g. fire, floods, COVID-19). www.folkalliance. org.au/directory Scottish duo The Jellyman’s Daughter is on tour in Australia, with gigs to include Cygnet Folk Festival and Illawarra Folk Festival. www.thejellymansdaughter.com Some other international acts touring over coming weeks include Marc Rebillet, Marlon Williams, Del Amitri, Billy Bragg and (the several times postponed) Cowboy Junkies. The Grammy Awards ceremony takes place in the first week of February. Among the nominees are ABBA, Molly Tuttle, Diana Ross, Coldplay, Artic Monkeys, Elvis Costello, Björk, Willie Nelson, Bonnie Raitt, Blind Boys of Alabama, Keb’ Mo’, Judy Collins, Janis Ian, Aoife O’Donovan. www.grammy.com

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The Women Folk podcast, hosted by Melanie Long and Jade Tinkler, launched with an interview with Ruth Hazleton. www. anchor.fm/womenfolk New albums include: Frankie Gavin, Port Éireann; Monique Clare, Sight; David Keenan, Crude; Paddy Hanna, Imagine I’m Hoping; Rachael & Vilray, I Love a Love Song!; Molly O’Mahony, The House of David; Ashley Heath, Something to Remember; Jenny Mitchell, Tug of War; The Little Unsaid, Fable; Rachel Taylor-Beales, Out of this Frame; Elspeth Anne, Mercy Me; Felix Riebl, Everyday Amen Among the new books are: Matthew Goody, Needles & Plastic: Flying Nun Records; Ramona Holmes, Resilient Voices: Estonian Choirs & Song Festivals in WWII Displaced Person Camps; Philip Ciantar, Studies in Maltese Popular Music; Jen B Larson, Hit Girls: Women of Punk in USA; Daphne A Brooks, Liner Notes for the Revolution: Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound; Ian Blenkinsop, Steeleye Span: Complete Recordings Illustrated; Lesley-Ann Jones, The Stone Age: Sixty Years of the Rolling Stones

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American singer/songwriter Loretta Lynn (90), who wrote ‘Coal Miner’s Daughter’, ‘Two Steps Forward’, ‘This Haunted House’, ‘Dear Uncle Sam’ and ‘World of Forgotten People’, died Tennessee, USA (Oct) Patrick Haggerty (78), whose debut album Lavender Country was released in 1973, died Washington state, USA (Oct) Irish musician Noel Duggan (73), of Clannad, died Ireland (Oct) Elizabeth Stewart (83), Scottish singer, folk musician and advocate for Traveller culture, died Scotland (Oct) American singer/songwriter Mary McCaslin (75), died California, USA (Oct) Kevin Locke (68), storyteller, hoop dancer and Indigenous Northern Plains flute player, died South Dakota, USA (Oct) Dead Kennedys drummer D H Peligro (63), died California, USA (Oct) Lucy Simon (82), American composer, singer and sister of Carly, died New York state, USA (Oct) American singer and pianist Jerry Lee Lewis (87), died Mississippi, USA (Oct) Lee Jihan (24), Korean actor and singer, died South Korea (Oct) American songwriter and musician Ivy Joe Hunter (82), died in October Joyce Sims (63), American singer/ songwriter, died California, USA (Oct) Grammy-winning American singer Jody Miller (80), died Oklahoma, USA (Oct) Bettye Crutcher (83), a staff writer for Stax Records, died Tennessee, USA (Oct) Rockabilly musician, Robert Gordon (75), died New York, USA (Oct) Irene Cara (60), Grammy-winner for the song ‘Flashdance … What a Feeling’, died Florida, USA (Nov) Cuban musician Pablo Milanés (79), died Spain (Nov) Wilko Johnson (75), of Dr Feelgood and Ian Dury & The Blockheads, died England (Nov) Brazilian singer Gal Costa (77), died Brazil (Nov) Rab Noakes (75), Scottish singer/songwriter, died Scotland (Nov) Irish musician Garry Roberts (72), of The Boomtown Rats, died England (Nov) Nik Turner (82), of English band Hawkwind, died in November English music journalist Colin Irwin (71), died England (Nov) Mimi Parker (54), American drummer and singer with Low, died Minnesota, USA (Nov) English musician Keith Levene (65), of The Clash, died England (Nov) Mick Goodrick (77), American jazz musician, died Massachusetts, USA (Nov) Scottish musician Dan McCafferty (76), of Nazareth, died in November