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Welcome to Bruce Watson’s web page |
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Bruce is a major Australian songwriter and performer in the folk tradition. Based in Melbourne, he performs around Australia at festivals, clubs and a range of other venues. Bruce is a hilarious humorist and a writer and performer with the power to move audiences to tears. His performances are joyful and thoroughly engaging, with witty lyrics and energetic presentation. He is a masterful craftsman of songs, be they evocative and heart wrenching, or side-splittingly funny.
Bruce's blog Bruce has just started a blog to share some of his news and experience in a bit more detail. Check it out: Bruce's blog
Gigs coming up: After a hectic January playing the Cygnet and Tamar Valley Folk Festivals in Tasmania, plus a house concert, a concert for the residents of Tasmania's Pontville Immigration Detention Centre, then the Turramurra music weekend in the Otways and finally Newstead Live! in Central Victoria, Bruce is taking a bit of a break (writing songs and working on his Antarctic Arts Fellowship application) before returning to the fray in April. Bruce will be presenting a paper on Australian music 'made and played' in Antarctica at the Australian Folklore Conference at the National Library of Australia on 5 April 2012. Australian Folklore Conference 2011. He will be performing with the Zamponistas at the National Folk Festival in Canberra over Easter, and will no doubt do a blackboard sport somewhere during the festival. He is off to South Australia for three Unsung Heroes of Australian History shows on 27, 28 and 29 of April. See Gig Guide for details. In August the Unsung Heroes of Australian History show, will be touring Canberra (24 August) and Sydney (25 and 26 August). See Gig Guide for details. In October Bruce will be touring with his own show, doing concerts in Canberra, Nowra, Folk in the Foothills (Jamberoo), Sydney and Newcastle. Details to follow. See Gig Guide for details. 
Bruce's newest album Balance is available through this website - as are his previous albums. The launch at the Boite, supported by the cream of Melbourne's folk musicians was packed,and a magic evening. Order, listen to tracks and find out more about BalanceView photos of the launch on Facebook 
Bruce joins forces with some other wonderful songwriters and singers in this exciting musical production which takes a quirky look at Australia’s history. The show has received rapturous responses from audiences and reviewers, and the CD has come up a real treat. To find out more about the project, listen to samples from the CD, and to buy the CD, go to unsungheroesofaustralianhistory.com And check out the showcase video
Bruce's Videos
Check out Bruce's videos, mostly of Bruce's live performances, including: - The Beanie Song - Australia's Lost Languages - The Man and The Woman and the Edison Phonograph (with Ronnie Summers) - I Shared a Urinal with Martin Ferguson - The Rules of English - Olegas - Down at the Pool - The Old Bush Dance Plus the Unsung Heroes of Australian History showcase video and several songs from the performance of the show at the National Folk Festival in 2010 Go to Videos page
The story behind The Man and The Woman and the Edison Phonograph
Ten years ago Bruce wrote a song on the extradinary story of Horace Watson recording Tasmanian Fanny Cochrane Smith singing traditional Aboriginal songs in 1903. He has now recorded it with Tasmanian Elder Ronnie Summers. Read about the background to this song, and how Bruce and Ronnie Summers got together to sing it.
Poem on Campbell the Swaggie
Everyone who has been to a folk festival has seen Campbell reciting with his swag and billy - busking or at a Poets' Breakfast. He seems to magically appear at every festival. But I was at a festival recently and he wasn't there! Read the poem
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