Since we last heard from Emily Wolfe (fiddle) and CC Thornley (banjo) they have finished their performances at the Festival of Voices and the Unconformity Festival at Queenstown. However, since returning home Emily has not been able to find any daycare for the podcast. So we had to Nan and Pop's place in the country. CC scares the children. A large hawk fights two crows for a dead rabbit. There is drama in the play area. CC goes over some fingering he deve...

Emily and CC continue their valiant effort to complete Season 3 as the Wolfe & Thorn Podcast rolls on. This episode we take you behind the scenes and share with you what it's like when we madly scramble to prepare for a coming gig. Some songs you've heard before as we try to polish a few originals. We skip over some other better known tunes, and brush the cobwebs off some songs not in our regular playlist. It's all business in this episode! No time for for tomfoolery. Maybe a small ...

Well, yes. It's been quite a while. There were babies, and COVID, and demanding career paths that got in our way. Turns out Emily's children were force sensitive and we had to go through this whole palaver to un-seduce them from the dark side. But while the original cast are still alive and not replaced by CGI, we thought we'd better get cracking on finishing Season #3. Indeed, a lot has happened in between episodes, and yet, strangely, the plot of each one seem...

A bonus special episode for you tonight folks! Emily and CC managed to get a bootleg recording of their concert at the Huon Valley Midwinter Festival, held at Willie Smith's in Huonville. Unlike our regular podcasts that are around 80% talking bulldust and 20% music, this podcast has over 80% music and less than 20% bulldust! Big thanks to Willie Smiths for inviting us to open the festival and to the sound guy who let me stick a spare cable in his hole to get this recording. See you...

In this episode we lose our guest due to COVID. (Before the show, not during.) We play 4 new tunes and review and old Steve Gadd tune. We also talk a whole lotta nonsense, musiuc theory, song forms, technique and about how Emily can talk to the animals. Mainly birds, who apparently "give her messages." And we discuss upcoming gigs. It's a ripper! Tunes were: 1. Whipsnake in the pocket 2. Old Barge/Joys of Piping 3. Louisa's Air 4. One Way Ticket/Raw Rosin 5. Araber Ta...

Our special guests in the studio are Mr Paul Sharp (due to problems with his mic you might notice some odd things about his voice. We apologize!) and the legendary Mighty Murri Man Jalen Sutcliffe, lead singer of the Mentolists, star of the ABC's Black Comedy and Rosehaven. We take a detour today and share with you some of the material we play in our other alter-egos, the Mentolists and the Black Swans of Trespass. We put the trad Tassie stuff and the new album on hold while we p...

The mission to create the second Wolfe & Thorn album continues, despite rocketing property prices, CC being ravaged by the COVID plague, and gross generalizations as the entire Music Industry PTY LTD in Tasmania collapses. Randall Muir, who played on our last album, joins us today to accept the brief of playing accordion on the new project. R.G.Muir is well known in Tasmania for his work in music, teaching at the Conservatorium, running Rektango, (Hobart's most treasured gig,) and ...

Hello listeners and welcome back to the Wolfe & Thorn podcast, Season 3 Episode 1! We have been going through ch-ch-ch-ch changes!! Emily has had a baby and is now allowed back out in public (under supervision, of course,) and CC has a job and has joined society, begrudgingly. Yes, it's been a while, and everything is different. We're now dropping the podcast once a month, and we have a new focus. You still will get 5 songs every podcast! You stil...

This episode we catch up with Teresa Dixon and Hannah Morrell, both of the Dead Maggies and also solo artists in their own right, with Teresa about to release her second album of original songs. We were scheduled to make this a live one but alas, did not sell enough tickets to justify opening up the Providence Cafe, so we gave Danning the owner a break. Although she said it was not about the money, I couldn't justify her losing money on the night. So we elected to have the podcas...

This month we have a chat to two Tassie icons. The Japanese-Taswegian banjo player Montz Matsumoto and the mighty Luke Plumb. Lots of banjo and mandolin as Montz takes us through some of his favorites and originals. Hosted by the Providence Cafe, 42 Newdegate St, North Hobart, TASAMANIA.

REGULAR EPISODES OF THE WOLFE & THORN PODCAST WILL RESUME IN 2022. In the meantime, CC Thornley introduces our dear listeners to some of the friends of the Wolfe & Thorn that make up part of the rich Tasmanian folk landscape in this special series of live podcast concerts recorded at the Providence Cafe, North Hobart, Tasmania. The first of these concerts introduces MATTHEW DAMES & ANNA TALBOT chatting with CC, playing and discussing some of their music.

Well it's come to that time. We say goodbye for another season, CC ventures off to some other podcast projects and Emily retires to her nest to have a baby. In this last episode we look back at ten of our favorite tunes that we've encountered during the season. So many tangents, so much disinformation, but plenty of good, proper folkie banjo & fiddle music. We hope you get some tunes and tips out of this season and meet some new friends! We'll see you again i...

A quiet night in once our guests finally leave. We look back on some of the new additions and contributors to the Tasmanian folk heritage. From the complex chords of the Harrison-Day sister's patchwork to some good old fun time tunes of Paddy Riley, all these tunes (except for one guy) are all 21st Century tunes. CC discovers where Emily keeps her plumbis. Many tangential rabbit holes are explored. Also, a bonus tune is hidden somewhere in here, about the subjec...

In our final special for Season 2 we are joined by veteran folkie Fred Pribac. He regales us with stories of sweary dance callers, FIFO politicians, and his many experiences in the folk scene around Australia, Tasmania and Cape Barren. He also brings with us two packets of biscuits that we kept, and also 5 songs! Correction - make that 2 songs, and 3 tunes. Yes, the tunes have words in them thus making them songs. Or so I'm told. I dunno, I wasn't really pa...

The real McCoy and the actual Steve Gadd (not the robot!) Welcome to our Eileen McCoy special! Steve & Marjorie Gadd have a special connection with Eileen McCoy who stayed with them shortly before she passed away in her late 80's. Steve & Marjorie tell us many stories of her and her tunes, reminisce about the beloved Dawson family, and also give Emily and CC their report cards. (Basically - "could do better had they applied themselves.") Also in this epi...

In this episode Emily gets her pizz on, and CC plays every chord available to the banjo except the right one. We play something old, something new, something borrowed, but mostly major keys and not a huge amount of blues. Special disappointing guest appearance from Trevor the bogan and his V8 ute from down the road. An episode packed with fiddle & banjo tips. Songs played are: Mrs G.S. Laing's Hornpipe; Kieth & Georgie's Fancy; Ms William Downie's Hornpipe; Waterlo...

Merinda Jane joins us to teach us some NEW TUNES! From Cape Barren! We talk about the history of the tunes and and her experiences growing up and learning them. we also speak to Palawa man Cody Summers about his experiences with Cape Barren music and growing up indigenous during a very racist time in Tasmania's modern culture. Cape Barren tunes hold a very special place in the Tassie folk canon, being tunes developed by the indigenous communities up on the islan...

We go dancing with David Wanless at the annual Steampunk ball, and talk about what a dance is like from the musician's perspective. Includes actual samples of the actual dances being actualized, acoustically! Songs include: The Chess Set; The Ireland Quadrille; The Cuckoo's Next & Growling Old Man and Cackling Old Woman; Soldier's Joy; The Spanish Waltz.

We look at a few very recent editions to Tasmanian folk music given to us from friends in China, Scotland, and Ireland. Emily's cat causes issues with its wants and needs. Some irrelevant but brief pop cultural references regarding the Journey to the West by Wu Cheng En. We discuss what makes a folk songs folk without reaching any real or useful conclusions. Also, Emily reveals her teen fan idolization of the Scottish band Fiddler's Bid. Songs include: The Jasmine; Mic...

Despite numerous setbacks, our heroes triumphantly get Episode 2 done. They say there are no coincidences...This episode we take a quick look backstage at the podcast with some analytics and discover how the reptilian overlords that run Youtube use copyright to destroy human civilization. We play quite a few Schottishces, and some polkas. Songs include: Leo's Prince of Wales Schottische; The Pretty Lips (or "Lollypop) Schottische; School Polkas 1 & 2; The Sorrell ...