PERFORMANCE

Australia's heritage in music and song

I'm an Australian singer-songwriter, author and historian.
I live in the Blue Mountains and have been performing and
writing about Australia, its history and people for many years.

Special performances - songs of the Blue Mountains

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As well as doing concert performances, I enjoy combining my music with talks on Australia - its natural and built heritage, places and people. This year, with the bicentenary of the Blue Mountains Crossing, I would be happy to present my Blue Mountains songs for you.

Please contact me if you have an event or would like a presentation on the history of this area. Perhaps you'd like to consider a house comcert - a great way to enjoy an afternoon or evening of song with friends or as a fundraiser for your favourite cause.

I've given presentations at a variety of places including:

[near Emu Ford on the Nepean]

schools
festivals
seminars
conventions
View Clubs
Probus Clubs
Garden Clubs
Writers Groups
House Concerts
Historical Societies
Senior Citizens groups
Family History Societies

Some of the topics I cover include:

History Through Song - another way of looking at Australia's past
Colonial Exploration - the spread of settlement and its consequences
Childhood Memories - Growing up in North Sydney
Australian Country Towns
Tales of Ordinary Australians
The Australian Landscape
The Blue Mountains
Poetry in Song
Oral History

A LITTLE ABOUT ME . . .

I live in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia and have done so for thirty years. From childhood I have maintained a deep interest in, and love of, Australian history. I have written books and articles, and developed school learning materials on Australian themes.

My interest in Australia has also been expressed in many of the songs I have written. My song writing has been combined with many and varied performing opportunities.

I have performed at restaurants, concerts and festivals and my music is played on ABC radio. Each year I continue to enjoy the opportunities of travelling to Australian places and listening to, and documenting, the stories of the people who live there.

Please feel free to email me.

Visit my personal website for more information

Jim Low

BLUE MOUNTAIN BLUE from the Rouseabout label CD, Across the Blue Mountains
released through Undercover Music (RRR59).

Booking/Enquiries

PO Box 3100,
East Blaxland
NSW 2774

email: jim@jimlow.net

phone: 0403023080

WHAT PEOPLE HAVE SAID
about Jim's music

Jim's songs deserve to be heard. They are genuine story songs that have a direct link to this land and this precious culture of ours. In many ways the songs link us to our history in the same way traditional songs served us in allowing us to record our emotional history.

I've been listening to Jim's songs for some years now and have been taken by his ability to create and sing songs that get to the heart of the story, entertain and beg to be listened to again..

- Warren Fahey OAM
folklorist, performer, publisher

Jim travels gently, digs out rich nuggets of Australiana, observes them acutely and with compassion, and then puts his historical vignettes to melodies that pass 'the old grey whistle test' with distinction. Go with him on his travels. I think you'll enjoy the journey.

- Gary Shearston

Thank you for your presentation. All our members had a positive experience …the way you told the story, relating it to you childhood and then sang about it was fantastic. It was a very moving story and members have said that they came away in a good relaxed mood, this was due to your whole presentation. You have a beautiful voice, a fantastic ability to write songs, and your playing of the guitar was tremendous.

- JUNE BULLIVANT OAM
Granville Historical Society

It is a pleasure to play tracks from the album. Wonderful stories ...

- Wayne Shearman
ABC Wide Bay

It’s a great album, I love it.

- Warren Fuller, 2NUR

Jim writes and sings songs about Australian characters and towns with the perception - and yearning – of a man in touch with the passing of a simpler time. His album, The Further I Travel, comes wrapped in the gentleness of a magpie greeting a country morning.

- Nigel Foote

Jim is a very accomplished singer songwriter.

- Ian Crombie
Radio1629 Newcastle

Jim is really a very fine Settler Culture Writer and the Gary Shearston influence, combined with his own experience as Country Teacher, gives the tracks a real authenticity that is sadly lacking in a lot of modern Country / Folk releases. I am enjoying this album immensely.

- Pat Drummond

“ETERNITY is a small word with a very big meaning. A big thank you to Jim for immortalizing “MR Eternity” in song.

- Raymond Phillips
Country Harvest

Thank you very much for sending us ‘The Further I Travel’ and please congratulate Jim on it. Lovely to hear some music that you can hear the words of!! And also great to hear Chloe & Jason again! He will certainly be added to the catalogue and will go into our new program.

- Glenys & Johnny Marcus
Original Country Radio

There is a freshness, honesty and integrity to Jim's CD which says a lot about Jim himself. Shining through are his passion, fascination and wonder with Australia, its history, its people and our fascinating stories - a desire to make sense of it all and take something forward.

- Jenny Watson
Sutherland Acoustic Club

The fact that Rouseabout Records have signed Jim to their label says a lot for his songs. Eric Bogle and Gary Shearston are also on this label. Congratulations Jim! ... The Further I Travel is an exceptional collection of Australian songs.

- Margaret Bradford
House Concert presenter

I just got your new CD by mail and loving it already. You guys did a good job and the stories are amazing. Excellent music.