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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
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Hugh currently performs
solo or with an acoustic trio or with his
long time friend John Schumann in The
Vagabond Crew. 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 Ballads 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 enjoyed a number of trips to the
U.S.A. where he performed in Delaware, New
York and Nantucket at folk clubs, bars and
uni's.
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