Martyn Wyndham-Read

Wyndham-Read was working in 2010 with Shirley Collins and Pip Barnes on Down the Lawson Track featuring stories, poems and songs of the Australian poet, Henry Lawson.

In the early 1970s he started a series of Maypoles to Mistletoe concerts which portray the seasons of the year through song, music, dance and verse. This show has been performed for the last 40 years and has in itself become a tradition at Christmas time in and around the Sussex area; an album of the same name also featuring fellow performers Geoff & Pennie Harris and Arky's Toast was released on Trailer Records in 1975. In 2003, he performed with his granddaughter, Hatti, at such a concert. He was still performing there in 2013.

Wyndham-Read returned England in 1967 and met up with singer and song collector, Bert Lloyd, who had also spent time in Australia. He was asked by Lloyd to contribute to an album, Leviathan, on the Topic label. Soon after Wyndham-Read started recording for Bill Leader.

In August 1964, Wyndham-Read recorded material for a various artists' album, Australian Folk Festival, which appeared on the Score label, owned by Peter Mann. McGregor observed, "it is one of the best records of Australian folk music available, and it has a stirring, swelling rendition of 'Ben Hall' by Martyn which alone would justify buying the record. Martyn also sings with Brian Mooney on 'Roddy McCorley', a song from the 1798 Irish rebellion, and 'Get Me Down My Filling Knife', a reworking by Brendan and Dominic Behan of the old Dublin street ballad, 'Get Me Down My Pettycoat'." Other contributions on the album are from: Tina Lawton, Trevor Lucas, Paul Marks and Lenore Somerset.

In 1958. Wyndham-Read moved from Sussex to Australia where he worked on Emu Springs sheep station, near Burra, South Australia. There he heard, first hand, the old folks songs sung by station hands and was captivated by these. He performed them at rural pubs, and decided to learn more about them and where they came from. He initially moved to Sydney and then to Melbourne to join the folk song revival during the early 1960s.

Arnold Martyn Wyndham-Read (born 23 August 1942, Crawley, Sussex, England) is an English folk singer, who was a collector and singer of Australian folk music. He lived and worked in Australia from 1958 to 1967 and was subsequently a regular visitor to the country.