Tonight, Join the Barbie at Ted Egan’s Sinka Tinny Downs

We’ve been lazing around Alice Springs with a lovely side trip to Kings Canyon and Ayers Rock, known now by its Aboriginal name, Uluru. We are in the center of this great island continent and when we are tempted to think we are at home in our own Utah red rock country, something pops up to remind us what an ancient and particular place this is.

Performing tonight with Eric Bogle at the Adelaide Fringe Festival

We are excited to be performing with Eric Bogle this evening as part of Adelaide’s Fringe Festival. The show has been sold out for a month in an intimate venue:

15 March – Clarence Park,  Adelaide,  Trinity Sessions,  8 PM, Eric Bogle and The Lonesome Rangers

Last night Eric and his wonderful wife, Carmel, had us over for a barbeque. They had planned for us to eat on the veranda overlooking the Adelaide Hills, but then the deluge began. The sky lit up and we all sat there amazed as over an inch and a half of rain poured down in only a couple of hours. In all the years they have lived in Adelaide, the Bogles had never seen such rain this time of year.

This evening we’ve been asked to join Eric for his amazing song “As If He Knows,” based on the experience of the Anzac Light Cavalry at the end of their time fighting in Palestine in World War I. We don’t expect to get through it dry eyed.

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