Luminaries of Melbourne’s folk music scene will be farewelled at ‘Footscray Folk: A Singout!’ on Saturday 7 March.
The concert at Bluestone Hall at Borderlands Cooperative will celebrate Footscray based folk pioneers David Lumsden and the Lumsden Family who have been part of the local scene since the 1950s.
With the upcoming concert, as well as a new exhibition at the Living Museum of the West – ‘Footscray Folklore Revisited: The Lumsdens’ – the family is finally getting their due and to mark the occasion, David Lumsden is coming out of retirement to perform one last time.
The concert will also likely be the last chance to see other iconic folk artists play, with Martyn Wyndham-Read on his final ever tour of Australia and Margaret Road Knight also making a rare return to the stage.
Rounding out the bill is the contemporary group The O’Hanlons, connecting local musical history to the present.
The concert also doubles as the launch for the campaign to heritage list the ‘Black Death’ as a significant part of Melbourne cultural history.
The Black Death is a rare and elusive beverage from the sixties Melbourne folk scene.
“Currently, we do not have legislation to protect the social use aspects of heritage,” concert promoter Alex Ettling said.
“Too often our weak heritage laws result in the only things being “protected” being the facades of now soulless buildings.
“Without functioning heritage laws we will, by acclamation of the crowd, anoint the Black Death as part of our heritage.”
Tickets: http://events.humanitix.com/footscray-folk
