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About Hugh
McDonald
Hugh
has
enjoyed a successful career as a singer, guitarist and
violinist touring Australia and the world with one of
Australia’s leading bands of the 1980’s,
Redgum.
Before joining
Redgum in 1981, he played and recorded
with
The Bushwackers Band, The Sundowners,
Moving Cloud
and
The Colonials
.
Hugh
currently performs solo or with an acoustic trio. He has
a vast knowledge of Irish song and dance tunes and plays
fiddle, guitar, mandolin and mandocello. |
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Hugh wrote some of Redgum's most popular
songs, notably
The Diamantina Drover,
which has been recorded by a variety artists including
Lee Kernigan, John Williamson and Christy Moore,
Ireland's most popular singer and songwriter.
Hugh is a skilled performer who loves to
involve the audience in his shows. His extensive
repertoire includes Redgum's Number One hit
I Was Only 19 and other Redgum successes and
classics from the '60s, '70s and '80s and up to the
'90s. He also plays Jazz Standards, Irish Ballards and
Australian Folk.
Hugh has released three solo albums:
Where's the Party, a collection of cover
versions of popular Jazz Standards, Irish songs and an
acoustic version of
The Diamantina Drover,
The Lawson Album, a collection of Henry Lawson
poems set to music by Hugh and Garth Porter, released by
ABC Music and
The Spirit of The Land, a
collection of Irish folk songs and tunes with James
Clark on double bass and Michael McClintock on violin.
Hugh continues to perform throughout
Australia, currently with John Schumann and the Vagabond
Crew, and has recently returned from a trip to the USA
where he performed in Delaware, New York and Nantucket
at folk clubs, bars and universities.
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