Phil Garland
Philip Humphrey Garland (9 February 1942 – 15 March 2017) was a New Zealand folk musician. He was awarded the Queen's Service Medal in the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours for services to folk music, and was called the "Godfather of New Zealand folk music". He recorded 19 albums, and won the New Zealand Music Awards folk album of the year three times.
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Phil Garland
- Name
- Phil Garland
- Birth Name
- Philip Humphrey Garland
- Born
- 9 February 1942
- Birthplace
- Christchurch, New Zealand
- Place of death
- Hamilton, New Zealand
- Died
- 2017
- Occupation
- musician
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Garland died in Hamilton on 15 March 2017, aged 75, and was buried in the Rutherford Street (Woolston) Cemetery, Christchurch.
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Key facts
• Name — Phil Garland • Birth Name — Philip Humphrey Garland • Born — 9 February 1942 • Birthplace — Christchurch, New Zealand • Place of death — Hamilton, New Zealand • Genre — Folk
Books
• Faces in the Firelight
Discography
• A Sense of Place • Billycan Ballads • Colonial Yesterdays • Damper, Duff & Doughboys • Down A Country Road • How Are You, Mate? • Hunger in the Air • No Place Like Home • One Hundred Years Ago • Southern Odyssey • Springtime in the Mountain • Swag o' Dreams • Under The Southern Cross • Wind in the Tussock • The Phil Garland Songbook
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- 1.Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Queen's Birthday honours list 2014. 2 June 2014.
- 2.Johnstone, Kirsten. 'Singing Historian' Phil Garland dies. Radio New Zealand. 17 March 2017.
- 3.Phil Garland - AudioCulture.
- 4.Kiwi folk legend Phil Garland dies. 16 March 2017.
- 5.Philip Garland obituary. The New Zealand Herald. 21 March 2017.
- 6.Christchurch City Council. Cemeteries database.
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