Description
After 50 years together, Australian folk musicians
PENNY DAVIES & ROGER ILOTT remain down-to-earth, hardworking, creative
professional musicians and songwriters. They got together in July, 1976, built their
own studio and record label and released their first album in 1983.
Since then they have released thirty albums of their own, and have produced
numerous albums for such performers as Gary Shearston, John Broomhall, Bill Scott,
Skewiff, Murrumbidgee Whalers, the Goodwills and many more. They have played
at countless folk clubs and folk festivals, toured for the Queensland Arts Council, and
have performed well over 1000 concerts, including the U.K. and U.S.A.
Their songs focus on Australia and the wider world. They sing songs of substance, songs of peace and
justice and struggle, plus descriptive songs of our country, and folk songs from around the world. Their
songs have been featured on seven of the ABC Australia All Over series of albums, and three of their songs
were highlights of the Australia All Over Top 100 Box Set.
“As we have travelled Along This Winding Way, crossing bridges and oceans – meeting singers, bards and
musicians, and other songwriters with a story to tell, we have also looked back to glimpse our origins.
Sometimes our childhood is a source of inspiration; the strong memories of small events that somehow help
define us. We are also driven by the desire to sing our history and to carry hope along with us, to stand up
for justice and for peace in a troubled world.” PENNY DAVIES, FEBRUARY, 2026
Davies-Ilott Songs: ALONG THIS WINDING WAY, HARVEST FAIR, FOXGLOVES (poem),
BESTWOOD PARK, WRECK OF THE YONGALA, GOOD PEOPLE, RISE UP!
Gary Shearson Songs: PILGRIM MAN, VOICES CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS
Plus: John Broomhall’s ON THE BRIDGE AT WILCANNIA, Sandy Denny’s THE SEA.
Josh Philips & Gary Brooker’s SOLDIER and Josh Bogin’s PEACEFUL (Navajo Prayer)
PENNY DAVIES vocals, mandolin
ROGER ILOTT vocals, acoustic & classical guitars, Rickenbacker 360/12,
pedal steel, banjo, keyboards, bass guitar, Djembe
with
CLARA BARRS – violin
Produced, recorded, mixed & mastered by ROGER ILOTT
