The Paverty Bush Band, sometime just called Paverty or the Pavs is a bush band based in Canberra.
Paverty is a renowned performer of bush music (songs, ballads, tunes, etc.) and bush dances.
The Paverty Bush Band followed on (in 2017) from the band called Franklyn B Paverty that started in 1970. You can find more detail in Wikipedia.
The current members of The Paverty Bush Band (in no particular order) are:
- Graham Chalker - vocals/percussion/mandolin/dance calls
- Sarah Davies - fiddle and vocals
- Simone Dawson - vocals/flute and whistles
- Bob Buckley - bass, fiddle, guitar, flute & whistle, dance calls/vocals
- Richard Kenyon - guitar and vocals
The Pavs often include Bryan Rae (vocals/guitar/harmonica), Peter Logue (vocals/accordion/keyboards), Dave O'Neill (fiddle/mandolin/vocals and calling a Strip the Willow) and others.
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