Daniel Kelly Folk Music

Daniel Kelly is an Australian folk ballad collector, songwriter, poet, painter, filker and part-time performer living in the Yass Valley who uploads traditional songs, covers, and original songs to YouTube.www.folklounge.org, AboutPegasus Awards site
== About ==
Daniel Kelly primarily collects and records folk ballads from Ireland, Scotland, and England, but also writes original songs and sets poetry to music. He regularly performs live at music festivals and cafés in and around Yass, a rural town in Australia.Daniel Kelly sings the story of the Commercial Hotel in Yass He is involved in the filk community. Many of his recordings on YouTube feature harmonizing through overdubbing. In some videos it is possible to hear his children singing along.
In 2023, he was invited as the Interfilk Guest to the Ohio Valley Filk Festival.http://ovff.org/guests/ Honored Guests–Ohio Valley Filk Festival
== Conflict with Scholastic and MacMillan ==
In 2018 Kelly started to set texts from the children's books by Julia Donaldson to music and uploaded recordings of the songs to YouTube. These included sung versions of The Highway Rat and Superworm, and were his most popular videos. However, WebCapio issued takedown directions and copyright strikes against the channel. Both Scholastic and MacMillan representatives ordered the removal of all videos using Donaldson's texts in January 2022.www.folklounge.org, Open Letter to Julia Donaldson
Kelly has attempted to reach out to Donaldson directly, but these recordings are still unavailable as of September 2023. He has also set his letter to Donaldson to music and posted it on YouTube as a song.Letter to Julia Donaldson—Youtube
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