Phil Garland Explained

Phil Garland
Birth Name:	Philip Humphrey Garland
Birth Date:	9 February 1942
Birth Place:	Christchurch, New Zealand
Death Place:	Hamilton, New Zealand
Genre:	Folk

Philip Humphrey Garland (9 February 1942 – 15 March 2017) was a New Zealand folk musician. He was awarded the Queen's Service Medal in the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours for services to folk music,^[1] and was called the "Godfather of New Zealand folk music".^[2] He recorded 19 albums,^[3] and won the New Zealand Music Awards folk album of the year three times.

Garland died in Hamilton on 15 March 2017, aged 75,^{[4] [5]} and was buried in the Rutherford Street (Woolston) Cemetery, Christchurch.^[6]

Discography

• A Sense of Place
• Billycan Ballads
• Colonial Yesterdays
• Damper, Duff & Doughboys
• Down A Country Road
• How Are You, Mate?
• Hunger In The Air
• No Place Like Home
• One Hundred Years Ago
• Southern Odyssey
• Springtime In The Mountain
• Swag o’ Dreams
• Under The Southern Cross
• Wind In The Tussock
• The Phil Garland Songbook

Books

• Faces in the Firelight

Notes and References

1. Web site: Queen's Birthday honours list 2014 . 2 June 2014 . Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet . 28 April 2018.
2. News: 'Singing Historian' Phil Garland dies. Radio New Zealand. 17 March 2017. Kirsten. Johnstone.
3. Web site: Phil Garland - AudioCulture.
4. Web site: Kiwi folk legend Phil Garland dies. 16 March 2017. 16 March 2017.
5. News: Philip Garland obituary . 21 March 2017 . . 12 October 2022.
6. Web site: Cemeteries database . Christchurch City Council . 12 October 2022.