Paverty 35th Anniversary Reunion Concert, Folkus Room 30 October 2009
Thinking about the year 1974. It seems so long ago and so far away from the vantage point of 2009. Remember 1974? It was the year of Cyclone Tracy, Watergate, Abba’s Eurovision win AND the birth of Franklyn B Paverty, Australia’s bush band of renown.
Details of Franklyn B Paverty’s very first gig seem to be lost but original and current band member, Mal Bennett, thinks it was in the bar of the Canberra College of Advanced Education back in late 1974. Now, half of three score years and ten later and time to celebrate, we can look back on career highlights that include playing at the official opening of Australia’s new Parliament House as well as at its 10th and 20th anniversary celebrations, performing Aussie music for guests at a lunch in honour of visiting US President, George W Bush, frequently entertaining at The Lodge for the Prime Minister’s Australia Day festivities and sharing stages with such luminaries as The Dubliners, Billy Connolly, Eric Bogle, The Fureys, Gerry and the Pacemakers and Slim Dusty. Paverty (as the band is affectionately known) has appeared at most of Australia’s major music festivals, toured extensively, appeared on television and radio and produced a discography that lists nine albums (one of which was a 3-CD set), the most recent, 35 Years On: Our Selection, produced to mark this significant milestone.
The Sing Australia 2009 National Gathering is located at Zone 10, Sir James Mitchell Park, South Perth. Entry is via Coode St (off Mill Point Rd).
