Penelope Swales Explained

Penelope Swales
Background:solo_singer
Instrument:Guitar
Occupation:Singer-songwriter, musician
Years Active:1993–present

Penelope Swales is a songwriter, folk singer, instrument maker, legal aid lawyer, and activist based in the Dandenong Ranges in Victoria, Australia.[1] [2] [3] Swales performed at the Poly Pride Day in New York's Central Park in 2007, and toured Europe in 2008 with the band Totally Gourdgeous. She spent much of her early life homeless.[4] Working with musical instrument maker Jack Spira, she began making instruments using the hard shells of gourds similar to kalimbas, and has made and sold many of them.[5] She became a legal aid lawyer.[4]

Discography

Television appearances

Swales appeared on the RMITV show Under Melbourne Tonight in 1996.[7]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Larry Schwartz. 19 May 2010. The Age. Fine art with strings attached. 24 February 2016. ... folksinger Penelope Swales.....
  2. Web site: Liz Conor. 2014. The Guardian. Climate Guardian mural with singer-songwriter Penelope Swales. 24 February 2016.
  3. Web site: Joel Crotty. 7 October 2003. The Age. Lots of naughty, trashy, folksy fun. 24 February 2016. ...somehow Bruinsma and guest artist Penelope Swales managed to keep it from heading into choppy waters.....
  4. Web site: Michael Dwyer. 15 May 2015. The Age. Singer-turned-lawyer Penelope Swales to join Sleep at the 'G fundraiser. 24 February 2016. ...The Melbourne singer-songwriter and activist turned legal aid lawyer spent much of her teens homeless, and she'll brush off some of her first busking compositions for the occasion, as well as songs of social passion and protest spanning her subsequent decades of touring and recording.....
  5. Web site: Andra Jackson. 8 March 2006. The Age. Artisan folk singer's picking up gourd vibrations. 24 February 2016. ...MELBOURNE folk singer Penelope Swales... fashioned from gourd ... could be adapted to craft Western instruments ... master guitar, mandolin and bouzouki maker Jack Spira, who guided her first efforts at making instruments. She has lost count of the number of kalimbas she has since sold. .....
  6. Web site: Bio . 3 December 2007 . Penelope Swales' official website .
  7. Web site: UMT list'96 . Web.aanet.com.au . 20 February 2016 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304193412/http://web.aanet.com.au/vfok/umt/episodes/list96.htm . 4 March 2016 .

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