Unknown outside their own countries - maybe

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We sometimes catch part of a TV show while we are waiting for one we always watch. It is Long Lost Family. Some of these stories are very harrowing. One we caught was about KT Tunstall who has quite a distinguished musical background and career. She was put up for adoption at 18 days old and, in the Long Lost Family show, she is reunited with two sisters. Unfortunately, her birth father had died before KT got the chance to meet him. She has written songs for films and put out a number of albums. But what intrigues me is that I’d never heard of her and I wonder how many outside of her own country are familiar with her. I’ve noticed the same with Australian artists that might be very familiar to me and seem ‘important’ but then no one outside of Australia has ever heard of them. The photo is of Eric Bogle, quite well known in Australia but not quite so well known overseas. He wrote ‘And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda’, ‘No Man’s Land’ and a number of others. He performed at our Music Shack concerts three times and the photo was taken at our Donnybrook place.