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The New Holland Honey Eaters is an old-time string band made up of Stan & Rebecca Gottschalk from Launceston and Steve & Jane Ray from Cygnet. The band specialises in traditional music from the south eastern United States – their repertoire includes Anglo-Celtic and Afro-American traditional music, minstrelsy, ragtime, Tin Pan Alley tunes and songs, rural hymnody, Cajun music, gospel, jug band music, faux-Hawaiian music, cowboy music, western swing and blues. Calling themselves ‘the string band behind the times’, they bring the folk music and folkways of the American southeast alive through the performance of ‘on-stage documentaries’ concentrating on aspects of the region’s social and musical history, and through their practical teaching workshops. They have been performing together since 1988, and are regular performers at the Cygnet and George Town Folk Festivals in Tasmania - and can also be heard at the National Folk Festival in Canberra and on ABC Radio National.
See and hear segments of The New Holland Honey Eaters’ current show On The Air ; The Story of Early Country Radio on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/
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