Meet the Musicians and Singers

Jeff has always loved music from a very early age and must have been listening to his Mum singing and the collection of 78 records his parents had.. He received his first guitar from his Pop on his birthday and started to sing and play mostly the protest songs of the day. During this lessons were received form at teacher in manly where the guitar was bought. Surfing took up a great deal of time as did a little drumming.
   Jeff got back to guitar in the seventies and took lessons again before jaunting overseas for a couple of years.
I was asked to come and play in a band singing Australian bush songs and play a Maton EM325 and various percussion instruments.

Pete's journey in music, which eventually saw him arrive as the bass player for Sydney's Snake Gully Bush Band, began when he was very young.
    He was a nine- year-old when his grandfather returned from Italy and handed him a brand new piano accordion. Little did he know that his enthusiasm to receive this gift would lead him to a lifetime appreciation of this instrument, which he still plays to this day.
    In his teens he started playing keyboards with numerous rock bands around Sydney before switching to the guitar. In 1998 I formed a duo with a fellow guitarist and played the club scene for about  five years.
    A chance meeting with Steve Stewart led him to being invited to join the Sydney Snake Gully Bush Band. This has widened his appreciation of music to include Australian bush heritage music and opened up yet another exciting avenue in his musical career.

David picked up the fiddle in 1952 and put it down in 1956. Forty years later he picked it up again and has been playing ever since. Active in the Sydney Scottish Fiddlers and in a Swing Jazz Band he gets most fun from Snake Gully Bush Band’s dance performances.
    Some Bush Band highlights include playing for the National Folk Festival opening dance, performing traditional Australian music for the millennium New Years Eve entertainment on Sydney Harbour and seeing the kids at Cromehurst School and Narrabeen Interchange catching the rhythm and joining the dance.
    He has attended workshops run by Nancy Kerr, Chris Duncan, and Pete McMahon and strives to apply some of the knowledge imparted by these masters.
    His violin was made in Sydney in the 1930s.

Tony’s introduction to music was as a young boy when taught classical piano by Mrs Woods in London, UK. This came to an abrupt halt with his interest in rock ‘n roll and when his father refused to pay the five bob for any more lessons.
   An Australian friend in the music business taught him the basics of guitar in the early seventies while living in London and singing experience was acquired around the many rugby clubs which significantly broadened his reportoir as well as his mind.
   More recently in Sydney, he has gained a wider musical appreciation playing with the Jazz Action Society and can squeeze a tune from a saxaphone, often outside a pub when short of the price of the next round.
   A few years ago Tony resumed his guitar playing and singing when forming the Snake Gully Bush Band with some friends interested in traditional and more contemporary Australian music. Tony is now also calling the bush dances regularly run by the band
    Tony plays a Maton ECW80 Guitar and a SGBB “S” type custom lagerphone.