Australia's folk music

Waltzing Matilda, which is often known as Australia’s unofficial National Anthem is typical Australian folk song, inclined by Celtic folk ballads. The country and folks artists like Tex Morton, Slim Dusty, and Rolf Harris etc have continued to record and popularized the old bush ballads of Australia from 20^th – 21^st   century and the current artists include the Sara Storer and Lee Kernaghan draw heavily on this legacy.

Australia has a folk revival; movement which include both the European migrates such as Eric Bogle who is known for his sad compliant to the battle of Gallipoli and the Band played Waltzing Maltida, and the indigenous Australian like the Archie Roach and Paul Kelly. Kelly lyrics capture the massiveness of the culture ad landscape of Australians by reporting life about him for over 30 years. And also David Fricke from rolling stone calls Kelly one of the finest song writers.

In the 1970’s the folk Rock brought both familiar and less familiar traditional songs such as new compositions to live venues and the airwaves. Prominent artists include the Bushwacker Band and Redgum. The Redgum are known for their 1983 anti-war protects song, which was rated as number one on the national singles charts. The 1990’s brought the indigenous folk Rock of Australia to the world, which was led by bands like the Yothu Yindi. Australia’s long and continuous folk tradition is still very strong till this day, with the element of their folk traditional which is still present in many contemporary artists bringing about the Rock, Heavy Metal and Alternative music.

The Australia has unique tradition of folk music, with origins in both the indigenous music tradition of the aboriginal Australian people, as well as the beginning of the folk music (including the sea shanties of 18^th to 19^th century Europe).