Danny Spooner is a traditional folk singer and social historian. Born in England, he left school at the age of 13 and worked as a salvage tug

Salvage tug

A salvage tug is a specialized type of tugboat which is used to rescue or marine salvage ships which are in distress or in danger of sinking, or which have already sunk or run aground....

 and trawler skipper before moving to Australia in 1962. He rapidly became involved in the Melbourne folk revival centred on Frank Traynor

Frank Traynor

Frank Traynor was an Australian jazz musician, trombonist and entrepreneur based in Melbourne. He led Australia’s longest continuously running jazz band, The Jazz Preachers from 1956 until his death in 1985. He founded the Victorian Jazz Club in 1956...

's folk club, and has been a major figure in the Australian folk scene ever since.

Awards and honours

Danny Spooner was the Port Fairy Folk Festival

Port Fairy Folk Festival

The Port Fairy Folk Festival is a popular annual four-day music festival based in the historic fishing village of Port Fairy in Victoria, Australia....

artist of the year in 1995.

CDs

• 2002: When a man’s in love (love songs from a man’s point of view)
• 2002: We’ll either bend or break ‘er (shanties)
• 2002: Launch out on the deep (sea songs)

Folk Trax

• 2004: ‘ard Tack (traditional Australian songs of work)
• 2006: 'The Great Leviathan Traditional songs of whaling
• 2007: Years of Spooner (compilation of songs Danny has sung 1965-2007
• 2007: Emerging Tradition (fairly) contemporary Australian songs
• 2008: Brave Bold Boys

Vinyls

• 1965: A wench and a whale and a pint of good ale, Discurio
• 1966: Soldiers and sailors, Discurio
• 1977: Canterbury Fair, Anthology AR 001
• 1978: Danny Spooner and friends, Anthology AR 002
• 1978: Limbo, Anthology AR 003
• 1978: Revived and relieved (with Gordon McIntyre), Larrikin LRF 016
• 1986: I got this one from..., Sandstock Music SSM 017
• 1987: When a man's in love, Sandstock Music, SSM 021
• 1988: We'll either bend or break 'er, Sandstock Music SSM 027
• 1989: All around down under, Sandstock Music SSM 036 (with Martyn Wyndham-Read)

External links

• http://www.musicaustralia.org/apps/MA?function=showDetail¤tBibRecord=000026890213&itemSeq=3&total=8&returnFunction=searchResults&scope=scope&displayFormat=websites&simpleTerm=singer&sessionId=reuseSearch586626F22A2C1FBFF36ADC9BDDF7ED701231888523666 Music Australia on Danny Spooner
• http://garrygillard.net/folk/DannySpooner/index.html Discography with some tracklists