Eric Bogle is roundish, shortish, baldish, fiftyish and Scottish.
An Australian resident for 35 years, and an Australian citizen since 1982, he is an internationally known and respected singer/songwriter and has been taking his music around the world for the last 25 years or so, in spite of warnings to "stop it or you'll go blind"
Eric is a warm and engaging stage performer, and his songs have the knack of getting straight to the heart of the matter with intelligent and well-crafted lyrics.
His songs have been recorded by many other artists ranging from
Joan Baez,
Donovan,
The Pogues and
Mary Black through to our own late, great
Slim Dusty. He has recorded 14 CD's so far, and is at present working on his 15th. A DVD is also in the tentative planning stage, but will probably remain so unless Eric wins Tattslotto in the next couple of years.
Eric has been described as a bit of a living legend, a label which he is uncomfortable with, but, as he says, "it's marginally better than being a dead legend"...
