Martyn Wyndham-Read

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.

Biography Martyn Wyndham-Read grew up on a Sussex farm; he heard the village blacksmith singing local songs. He formed a skiffle band with fellow villagers, he "learnt to play guitar and belted out Lonnie Donegan-like versions of 'Down by the Riverside' and other American Negro songs." near Burra, South Australia. There he heard, first hand, the old folks songs sung by station hands and was captivated by these.

Wyndham-Read returned to England in 1967 and met up with singer and song collector, Bert Lloyd, Wyndham-Read and his wife, Danni , a visual artist, have four children and six grandchildren.