Bio:
Eric Bogle is a Scot living in Oz (Australia) having emigrated in 1969. In 1971, after watching soldiers who had survived Gallipoli march in Australia's yearly Anzac (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) parade, he wrote "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda", a song which would be covered by The Dubliners, The Irish Rovers, The Pogues, Joan Baez, Priscilla Herdman, Liam Clancy, Martin Curtis, Ronnie Drew, Danny Doyle, Slim Dusty, The Fenians, Mike Harding, Jolie Holland, Seamus Kennedy, The Langer's Ball, Johnny Logan and Friends, John Allan Cameron, Houghmagandie, John McDermott, Midnight Oil, Christy Moore, The Skids, June Tabor, John Williamson, The Bushwackers, The Kruger Brothers, Redgum, John Schumann, Tickawinda, Orthodox Celts, The Houghton Weavers, Pat Chessell, Bread and Roses, Phil Coulter, and Garrison Keillor on his radio show A Prairie Home Companion.
Eric's "No Man's Land", recorded by Irish group The Fureys under the title "Green Fields of France", was an enormous success in Ireland; 26 weeks on the charts and 10 weeks in the number one position, unknown countless renditions sung in pubs throughout the country.
Although these two songs are the most widely known of Eric's works, his compositions range into the hundreds. He's recorded a good number of CDs and LPs, some in print, some out. Festival Folk Sing is the latest Eric Bogle-related release, a tribute to his songs by a series of marvelous artists.
Eric has toured extensively throughout the UK, with forays onto continental Europe, and he continues to play shows and festivals in Australia.
He is a Member of the Order of Australia, "In recognition of service to the performing arts as a song writer and singer".
Contact Information
Address:
P.O. Box 1037
Unley, South Australia 5061
Management/Booking:
Arthur & Pat Laing Entertainment
35 Montague St, Goulburn NSW 2580
+ 61 2 4821 4913
The Recôncavo is an almost invisible center-of-gravity. Circumscribing the Bay of All Saints, this region was landing for more enslaved human beings than any other such throughout all of human history. Not unrelated, it is also birthplace of some of the most physically & spiritually uplifting music ever made. —Sparrow
"Dear Sparrow: I am thrilled to receive your email! Thank you for including me in this wonderful matrix."
—Susan Rogers: Personal recording engineer for Prince, inc. "Purple Rain", "Sign o' the Times", "Around the World in a Day"... Director of the Berklee Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory
I'm Pardal here in Brazil (that's "Sparrow" in English). The deep roots of this project are in Manhattan, where Allen Klein (managed the Beatles and The Rolling Stones) called me about royalties for the estate of Sam Cooke... where Jerry Ragovoy (co-wrote Time is On My Side, sung by the Stones; Piece of My Heart, Janis Joplin of course; and Pata Pata, sung by the great Miriam Makeba) called me looking for unpaid royalties... where I did contract and licensing for Carlinhos Brown's participation on Bahia Black with Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock...
...where I rescued unpaid royalties for Aretha Franklin (from Atlantic Records), Barbra Streisand (from CBS Records), Led Zeppelin, Mongo Santamaria, Gilberto Gil, Astrud Gilberto, Airto Moreira, Jim Hall, Wah Wah Watson (Melvin Ragin), Ray Barretto, Philip Glass, Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd for his interest in Bob Marley compositions, Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam and others...
...where I worked with Earl "Speedo" Carroll of the Cadillacs (who went from doo-wopping as a kid on Harlem streetcorners to top of the charts to working as a janitor at P.S. 87 in Manhattan without ever losing what it was that made him special in the first place), and with Jake and Zeke Carey of The Flamingos (I Only Have Eyes for You)... stuff like that.
Yeah this is Bob's first record contract, made with Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd of Studio One and co-signed by his aunt because he was under 21. I took it to Black Rock to argue with CBS' lawyers about the royalties they didn't want to pay. They paid.
MATRIX MUSICAL
The Matrix was built below among some of the world's most powerfully moving music, some of it made by people barely known beyond village borders. Or in the case of Sodré, his anthem A MASSA — a paean to Brazil's poor ("our pain is the pain of a timid boy, a calf stepped on...") — having blasted from every radio between the Amazon and Brazil's industrial south, before he was silenced. (that's me left, with David Dye & Kim Junod for U.S. National Public Radio) ... The Matrix started with Sodré, with João do Boi, with Roberto Mendes, with Bule Bule, with Roque Ferreira... music rooted in the sugarcane plantations of Bahia. Hence our logo (a cane cutter).