Ashley Davies – Ned Kelly (CD & Booklet)

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Ashley Davies – Ned Kelly (CD & Booklet)

“The Ned Kelly legend obviously still has resonances for many Australians, but to come across artists who’ve found such a fresh angle on it, as Ashley Davies and Ian Jones have with this richly drawn project, is especially exciting. Enough to leave Peter Carey gasping”. – Clinton Walker; Author Buried Country, Highway To Hell, researcher “ A Long Way to the Top”- ABC documentary series on Australian Rock and Roll and television music show Studio 22 presenter.

Two years in the making NED KELLY is a 15 track compact disc of original instrumental music written by Ashley Davies. NED KELLY is performed by some of Australia’s top musicians – among them, guitarists Jeff Lang, James Lee and Matt Walker; Jen Anderson (Black Sorrows, Weddings Parties Anything) and Adam Gare (Paul Kelly, Uncle Bill) on violins and Glen Romanis (aboriginal artist and didjeridoo). It is accompanied by a 32 page illustrated colour booklet with 15 texts as written by Ian Jones – Australia’s foremost Ned Kelly Historian.

NED KELLY presents the life and times of Ned Kelly in a form which is both emotionally engaging and historically accurate. The music and stories transport the reader/listener to the key moments in the life of Ned Kelly, working together to produce a powerfully emotional experience. Among those events – Ned’s teenage years, his mother’s incarceration, the gang’s bank robberies, the last stand at Glenrowan and the court proceedings.