Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This week Katherine Nelson finished the beautiful 'Kim Nelson' mural on the wall of the Yass Oddfellow's hall that was started back in September. This was no easy task given the need to work at height in 36 degree (Celsius) days. Katherine is local painter and art patron, Kim Nelson's, niece.
The story around the September 2025 celebration of Kim's life and work here:
https://aboutregional.com.au/yass-set-to-celebrate-life-and-work-of-favourite-son-artist-kim-nelson/485149/
More about the mural:
https://www.southerntablelandsarts.com.au/caitlin-katherine-nelson/
Burnt Sienna is the name of the painting at the center of the mural, but also the name of the pigment from the Italian town of Siena. Kim's work available here:
https://www.kimnelson.com.au/
This is the second song I've written for Kim, he was pivotal in encouraging me to pursue music:
youtu.be/JDIWpQeLz-4
Purchase my music:
ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com
Website (Lyrics and Chords):
folklounge.org/lyrics-and-chords
This week Katherine Nelson finished the beautiful 'Kim Nelson' mural on the wall of the Yass Oddfellow's hall that was started back in September. This was no easy task given the need to work at height in 36 degree (Celsius) days. Katherine is local painter and art patron, Kim Nelson's, niece.
The story around the September 2025 celebration of Kim's life and work here:
https://aboutregional.com.au/yass-set-to-celebrate-life-and-work-of-favourite-son-artist-kim-nelson/485149/
More about the mural:
https://www.southerntablelandsarts.com.au/caitlin-katherine-nelson/
Burnt Sienna is the name of the painting at the center of the mural, but also the name of the pigment from the Italian town of Siena. Kim's work available here:
https://www.kimnelson.com.au/
This is the second song I've written for Kim, he was pivotal in encouraging me to pursue music:
youtu.be/JDIWpQeLz-4
Purchase my music:
ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com
Website (Lyrics and Chords):
folklounge.org/lyrics-and-chords
![The Bonnie Banks o Fordie [ Child Ballad No. 14 ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RRpwsvfm0EI/mqdefault.jpg "The Bonnie Banks o Fordie [ Child Ballad No. 14 ]
Back to my efforts to get Volume 1 of the Francis Child collection recorded this year.
This is variant E in Child:
https://archive.org/details/englishandscotti01chiluoft
As published in George Kinloch:
https://archive.org/details/ancientscottishb01kinl
(with an interesting addtion about the death of Ragnar Lodbrog)
Loudon (not clear why that make him a Robber) is from Lothian, named after the #Arthurian King Lot:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lothian
The photo of the Karna church is by Håkan Svensson Xauxa, from the Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%B6res_d%C3%B6ttrar_i_W%C3%A4nge
The church is related to the Swedish folk song, which is probably the origin of the one collected in the UK.
Woodblock illustration is by Charles Hodge Mackie.
#ChildBallads
Purchase my music:
https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/
Website (Lyrics and Chords):
https://www.folklounge.org/lyrics-and-chords/")
