1 June, 2025

Curriculum Vitae

Name:                                     STAN GOTTSCHALK

 Address:                                 9 WELMAN STREET

                                                LAUNCESTON

                                                TASMANIA   7250

 Musical Performance Experience:

Stan has been playing and singing traditional southern American music, (performing with guitar, banjo, fiddle, mandolin, autoharp, dobro, dulcimer and voice) for over forty years. The production of highly theatrical “themed concerts” has been a major part of his contribution to the national “folk scene”. These are on-stage documentaries”, illustrating an era or theme in American social history. Stan has written all the scripts, which incorporate historical slide images, field recordings, dramatic readings from contemporary sources and theatrical vignettes. Since 1988 he has worked mainly with his band, The New Holland Honey Eaters, and they are regular performers at major Australian folk festivals and on ABC national radio. Examples of their work can be seen at https://www.youtube.com/user/NewHollandHoneyEater?disable_polymer=true  .

 Themed concert titles have included:

1. Southern American Music: A Black and White Interchange** (1977).
2. Down in the Graveyard: Scales and Modes in Southern Music** (1981).
3. “It’s a Cheat in Makin’ Music”: Cross-Tuning of Instruments in the Southern Tradition** (1983).
4. Comparative British and American Folk Music# (1984).
5. You Can’t Get There From Here: Images of the Railroad * (1985).
6. Powerful Deflections, Substitutive Satisfactions and Intoxicating Substances: Ways of Coping*# (1986).
7. The Non-Folkness of the Folk (and the Folkness of the Non-Folk) – Sources of Traditional Repertoire* (1987).
8. “The Pet Child of Calamity’s a-Comin’ “: Sudden Death, Family Tragedy and General Desolation in the Southern Tradition+ (1988).
9. Bust Skull and Rotgut:  The Story of Prohibition+ (1989).
10. “I Done Tried to Find My Way, Lord, But I Fell Out the Door”: The Sacred and the Secular in Southern American Music*+ (1990).
11. Nantucket Whalers *# (1990).
12. The Panic Is On: The Story of the Great Depression *+ (1992).
13. Under the Chicken Tree: Early Recorded Traditions in Southern Music+ (1993).
14. John Brown’s Body: The Story of the American Civil War*+,## (1995).
15. “No Two in the Congregation Quaver Alike”: Learning to Sing in the Extradordinary Southern American Shape-Note Tradition *++ (1996, rev 2019).
16. The Ballads: A Look at British and American Traditions*# (1996).
17. Going Down the Lee Highway : The Folk Roots of Country Music+, ## (1997).
18. Going Down the River: Music and Tales of the Mississippi+ * (1999).
19. The Year of 1900: The American South at the Turn of the Century+ (2001).
20. Good Enough for Me: The American South and the 1920s+ (2003).

21.  Don’t Get Weary: Afro-Americans, Mountaineers and Southern Folk Music+ (2004).

22.  In Your Face: Songs of Food and Drink (2005)#.

23.  A Christ-Haunted Land: The American South and Fundamentalism+ (2006)

24.  On the Air: The Story of Early Country Radio+ *(2009, 2010)

25.  The WYOY National Hoedown+ (2011)

26.  Don’t Touch That Dial: Early Radio and the Making of Country Music+ (2012)

27.  Shape-Notes to Gospel: The Story of Southern Quartet Singing+ (2013)

28.  Linthead Stomp: Cotton Mills, Radios and Old-Time Music (2015)+

29. The WYOY Southern Melody Hour (2016)+

30. “Fiddle Tunes and a Hard God “:The Story of Appalachia 2018, 2019)+

31. Station WYOY’s Farm and Fun Time (2020)+

32. Got More Trouble Than I Can Stand: The Story of Ragtime (2024)+

**   Devised by S. Gottschalk, performed by S. Gottschalk, G. Greenwood

+    Devised by S. Gottschalk, performed by S. Gottschalk, R. Gottschalk, S. Ray, J. Ray - The New Holland Honey Eaters

*     Recorded in full and broadcast by ABC Radio

#     Devised and performed by S. Gottschalk and D.  Spooner

++  Devised by S. Gottschalk, performed by S. Gottschalk, R. Gottschalk, S. Ray, J. Ray, D. Spooner

##   Recorded and broadcast in full by Canberra Community Radio FM 103.1

Festivals:

1)         Hobart String School – workshop on fiddling to classical musicians (1985).

 2)        Cygnet Folk Festival, Cygnet, Tas. (1983-1990, 1992, 1993, 1995-2004, 2006-2016,  2018-2020,                   2024).

3)         Kyneton Folk Festival, Kyneton, Vic. (1985).

4)         National Folk Festival, Melbourne (1986); Alice Springs (1987); Adelaide (1991);   Canberra (1992, 1995,                 1997, 1998, 2000, 2005, 2010).

5)         Port Fairy Folk Festival, Port Fairy, Vic. (1984).

6)         Tamar Valley Folk Festival, George Town, Tas. (1992, 1993, 1995-2004, 2006-  2021, 2023, 2025).

7)         Tasmanian Folk Festival, Longford, Tas. (1977, 1981, 1984, 1992).

8)         Top Half Folk Festival, Mt. Isa (1987); Darwin (1989, 2001, 2021).

9)         Maldon Folk Festival, (1973, 2005).

10)       Westbury St. Patrick’s Day Festival (2008).

11)       Guildford Banjo Jamboree (2007, 2009-2011, 2014, 2017, 2022).

12)       Harrietville National Bluegrass and Traditional Country Music Convention,  Harrietville, Vic. (2010,                     2011).

13)       Cluneytunes: Festival of Americana and Celtic Music, Clunes, Vic, (2016)

14)       Kelly Country Pick, Beechworth, Vic. (2017)

15)       MountainGrass Festival of Bluegrass & Old Time Music, Beechworth, Vic. (2019)

16)       Mt Roland Folk Festival (2019, 2022)

Recording:

1)         Numerous solo performances and festival workshops recorded and broadcast       nationally by ABC’s Music Deli programme, 1987-1997. On The Air recorded and      broadcast nationally (2009).

            2)         John Brown’s Body, Going Down the Lee Highway and Going Down the River                            recorded and broadcast by Canberra Stereo Public Radio, 1995, 1997, 1999.

            3)         Fiddle Tunes and a Hard God recorded and broadcast by Hobart FM radio (2019).

4)         Got More Trouble Than I Can Stand: The Story of Ragtime recorded and broadcast                     by Launceston City Park Radio (2024).

            5)         The New Holland Honey Eaters On The Air: Live at Launceston College, (2009). CD                  NHHE-01.

            6)         The New Holland Honey Eaters Behind the Times, (2015). CD NHHE-02.

Publications and Research:   

1)         Gottschalk, S.A., Old Time Mountain Fiddle, 1977.

2)         National Fellowship from the Music Board of the Australia Council grant for research into traditional fiddle styles as represented in the US Library of Congress archives. An extensive research paper, Three Traditional Southern Fiddlers: Their Tunes and Their Playing Styles, was produced (1979).

3)         Regular contributor of articles on the physics of music for Mugwumps Instrument            Herald, USA (1979-1980).

4)         Regular contributor of articles, transcriptions, etc. to Cumberland County Rag, Sydney (1975-1990).

5)         Gottschalk, S.A., ‘Garry Greenwood’s Leather Sculptures’, Craft Australia, Summer 1883/4, Crafts Council of Australia, Sydney, pp. 88-92.

6)         Gottschalk, S.A., ‘Vale: Garry Greenwood’, Tasmania 40° South, Issue 37, Winter, 2005.

7)         ‘Pete Seeger, the Five-String Banjo and American Culture’, Australasian Journal of        American Studies, ANZASA, Sydney, Dec., 2006.

Biographical Details:

 Stan was born July 13, 1946, in the USA. He grew up in Florida, attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston from 1964-1970, graduating with B.Sc., M.Sc., and professional degrees in Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering. He emigrated to Australia in 1970 and became an Australian citizen in 1971. He attended the University of Melbourne and graduated with a Ph.D. in 1973. Stan has since lectured at the Footscray Institute of Technology, taught high school in Launceston and was a Senior Lecturer at the AustralianMaritimeCollege, Launceston, until his retirement in 2001.