Brian Jonathon singer-songwriter, multiinstumentalist, has sung folk clubs in his native Dublin, the UK and more recently Sydney where he now resides, Strongly influenced by integrity of British, American, folk revival, twice shortlisted for the Alistair Hewlett Foundation Songs for Social Justice Award, he sings for indigenous reconciliation, ecological and social justice

No Open Road For Us

Robert Stewart Viscount Castlereagh's vicious suppression of the 1798 rising in Ireland was  but one of the vile acts of  his bloody career as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and later British  minister for war and the colonies. So reviled was he during his lifetime that Shelley wrote:"I met murder on the way, he had a face like Castlereagh" and Byron penned an equally damning verse quoted in the last chorus of this song. Yet we still continue to honor his name in Australia,

Castlereagh

From my new album'IS THIS AUSTRALIA FAIR' I wrote this in support of the original peoples push to commemorate the 26th as Invasion Day'rather than a day of national celebration

06 Invasion Australia Day

At Appin, near Campbelltown NSW, on 17th April 1861, under a full moon, Macquarie's troops murdered fourteen Darwal people, some chased over the Cataract Gorge, several decapitated and hung from trees to deter resistance during a conflict that had started because during a drought some of the Original People were starving and had taken some food from the settlers stores which they thought was for sharing.

03 Appin Hills

Sydney early morning, the first buds of spring burst forth, and there's nothing more to gain

ARE YOU FREE

Dublin born Sydneysider  folksinger-songwriter Brian Jonathon's presents impassioned songs of social justice, environment and reconcilliation and of the sometimes dark absurdities of modern life, His second album 'Is This Australia Fair' has just been released and both will be available at the Illawarra Folk Festival 2017 (13th January) and at Dukes Place Marrickville (10th February) where he will be performing and via his website www.brianjonathon.com