Gerry Hale has provided violin and mandolin for Colin Hay Band and Broderick Smith Band.
19 Facts About Gerry Hale
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On that album, Gerry Hale provided guitar, mandolin, fiddle, dobro, lap steel, vocals and he co-produced it with Kelly.
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Gerry Hale grew up in Newmarket, Suffolk and started playing music at the age of twelve, he turned professional at fifteen, spending three years touring rural England.
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Gerry Hale performed with American bluegrass pioneer, Bill Monroe, in 1975, at age sixteen.
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Gerry Hale worked in Cambridge from the mid-1970s, where he was a founding member of Telephone Bill and the Smooth Operators in 1975 on vocals, mandolin and fiddle, with Robb Appleton on vocals and harmonica, Anne Baker on vocals, acoustic guitar, mandolin, bass and percussion, Nick Barraclough on vocals, banjo, mandolin, guitar and bass, and Chris Cox on vocals, mandolin, banjo and double bass.
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Gerry Hale was a session musician, providing violin, for Cambridge band, the Soft Boys, on their first two albums, A Can of Bees and Underwater Moonlight.
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Gerry Hale appears on Hay's second solo album, Wayfaring Sons, after which Hay relocated to the United States.
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Gerry Hale then joined Broderick Smith Band on violin and mandolin during 1990.
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Gerry Hale returned to working with the Bouncing Czechs, from April to May 1991 at the Last Laugh Theatre Restaurant, in Collingwood.
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Gerry Hale was a comedian, singer, musician and divisor alongside fellow members of that ensemble: Gadsby, Piper and Adam Gare, to provide The Bouncing Czecks Are Greedy.
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Gerry Hale took an acting role in the Glenn Elston-directed version of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night from December to March 1993 at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne.
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Gerry Hale was recorded on Smith's album, My Shiralee, playing autoharp, mandolin, acoustic guitar, violin and banjo.
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Hay had returned to Australia and Gerry Hale provided fiddle and mandolin for that artist's fourth album, Topanga.
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Gerry Hale formed another bluegrass group, Uncle Bill, in Melbourne, in 1996: their first gig was at the Terminus Hotel, Abbotsford.
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Gerry Hale provided another track, "Roll It", on the limited edition's bonus disc.
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In early 2001, Gerry Hale disbanded Uncle Bill, and went on to appear on Deborah Conway's covers album of Patsy Cline's songs, PC: The Songs of Patsy Cline, which was released in August 2001.
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Gerry Hale joined her backing band, Deborah Conway and the Patsy Clones which toured Australia to promote the album.
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Gerry Hale performed and co-produced a number of tracks on Conway and Zygier's 2004 album, Summertown.
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In 2009 Gerry Hale re-formed Uncle Bill with Kim Wheeler, John Gray, John Kendall, Kat Mear and Pepita Emmerichs.