The Good Girl Song Project

Folk music is all about stories, and the best ones reach back into the past and offer unexpected insights. One of the highlights of this year's Wellington Folk Festival this Labour Weekend is an intriguing Australian show called The Good Girl Song Project. It's the creation of songwriter and musician Helen Begley, and actor-singer Penny Larkins. And it's unusual - in folk circles at any rate - in that it blends song-cycles with theatrical elements. Helen and Penny sing about women early settlers - not convicts but others who came to Australia for a new life. They sing the title song live from the ABC studio in Melbourne. Lynn Freeman spoke with them about how traditional folk music audiences react to the highly theatrical song cycles. The Good Girls are performing and taking a workshop in Palmerston North on 24th and 25th of October before heading to the Wellington Folk Festival over Labour Weekend.