A Scottish-born, naturalized citizen of Australia, Eric Bogle has given the world some of its most powerful protest songs. "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda," written in 1972, is Australia's most recorded song with performers as diverse as Rod McKuen and The Pogues performing it. A version of the song recorded by Makem and Clancey is the best selling single record in Irish history. That song and others such as "A Reason for It All," and "The Greenfields of France" prompted the Australian government to present Eric with its Peace Award in 1986 and the Order of Australia for his contributions to that country's music heritage in 1987. Sardonic, self-deprecating, nostalgic, melancholy, touching, and hilarious, Eric's compositions range from the ridiculous -- as in the oversexed chihuahua who meets his Waterloo when he takes on a St. Bernard -- to the sublime -- as represented by his powerful anti-war songs or his "Something of Value" which comments on the failure of the Australian Bicentennial celebration to acknowledge the Aborigines. On his latest five-album set Singing the Spirit Home, as in his concerts, Eric encompasses a world of sentiment: love, courage, wistfulness and whimsy, not to mention downright hilarity. Eric will be joined by his regular accompanists, Brent Miller on bass and Andy McGloin on guitar.