Gavin Lockley's favourite songs are also featured on the
ABC Classics Double CD "Symphony of Australia -
Ballads of the Bush" at ABC Shops. See details at
www.shop.abc.net.au
"Composer and performer Gavin Lockley has created an
extraordinary work, grand in scope, but with immense
warmth and charm - a soundscape of our land, thrillingly
brought to life by the Sydney Symphony and a host of
Australia folk performers. CD1 is the Symphony of
Australia; CD2 presents the more down-to-earth Ballads
of the Bush."
-- ABC Website
Gavin Lockley's Favourite Songs from "Celebrate
Australia!" the Australia Day Concert.
'My Country Australia' based on the visionary poem
"Core of My Heart" by Dorothea Mackellar - "I love a
sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains...".
'Clancy of the Overflow' based on A.B. "Banjo" Paterson's fabled poem
of the same name - "Clancy's
gone to Queensland droving, and we don't know where he
are...".
'The Australia Sunrise' based on a sweet and touching
poem by James Lister Cuthbertson - "The Morning Star
paled slowly, the cross hung low to the sea...".
Offer expires 28 February 2010.