Graham Chalker

drums, mandolin and lagerphone
lead vocals.

Graham started his percussive career at North Goulburn Primary School (the alma mater of 3 other members of Paverty) and has been beating various instruments and bushes since.

He played in Paverty’s original incarnation at the Burton Hall (ANU) Review in 1970. At that stage the band went by the name Franklyn B Paverty and the Platte Valley Crooners and was more a barber shop quintet than a bush band. In one of our early TV appearances, the band was described as “students out for a lark” by the host of the New Faces series. Printing costs and failing memories lead to the truncation of the name.

Graham is also a member of the Sing Australia Blokes Choir.

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