The Queensland Tiger - Biography The Queensland Tiger is an Australian musician, who started his music journey later in life when he learnt to play piano in his 50’s. He has a life long love for traditional folk music and classic Australian poetry which he gained growing up as an Australian. About five years after he started to play, The Queensland Tiger took to the studio to record his first track, a rendition of ‘Andy’s Gone with Cattle’ (words by Henry Lawson, tune by the late Hugh McDonald). Many other traditional folk songs followed. ‘Convicts and Bushrangers’ is his first album. The Queensland Tiger plays keyboards and sings, and is joined by various talented accompanists. The album is a fond reminder of Australian stories written at a time when poems and songs were widely circulated, and performed by locals. This is an album of fourteen mainly traditional ballads, but some of the arrangements are original e.g. ‘The Wild Colonial Boy’. The Queensland Tiger attempts to breathe new life into these old ballads and this will appeal to modern listeners. What makes this album more interesting is that the songs are arranged chronologically, and the listener may take a tour through the past. The opening track, “Jim Jones at Botany Bay” refers to the first convict settlement at Sydney Cove in 1788, and the final three songs are about the Kelly gang, the last of the famous bushrangers. Website : www.thequeenslandtiger.com