Phil Garland

Philip Humphrey Garland QSM (9 February 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 QSM
Garland in 2014
Background information
Birth name	Philip Humphrey Garland
Born	(1942-02-09)9 February 1942 Christchurch, New Zealand
Died	15 March 2017 (aged 75) Hamilton, New Zealand
Genres	Folk

Garland died in Hamilton on 15 March 2017, aged 75,^[4][5] and was buried in the Rutherford Street (Woolston) Cemetery, Christchurch.^[6]

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