Phil Garland

Philip Humphrey Garland QSM (c. 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,[1] and was called the "Godfather of New Zealand folk music".[2] He recorded 19 albums,[3] and won the New Zealand Music Awards folk album of the year three times.

Phil Garland
Garland in 2014
Background information
Birth namePhilip Humphrey Garland
Born(1942-02-09)February 9, 1942
Christchurch, N.Z.
OriginNew Zealand
Died (aged 75)
Hamilton, New Zealand
GenresFolk

Garland died in March 2017 aged 75.[4]

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

Books
  • Faces in the Firelight

References
  1. "Queen's Birthday honours list 2014". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 2 June 2014. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
  2. Johnstone, Kirsten (17 March 2017). "'Singing Historian' Phil Garland dies". Radio New Zealand.
  3. "Phil Garland - AudioCulture".
  4. "Kiwi folk legend Phil Garland dies". 16 March 2017. Retrieved 16 March 2017.


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