New Zealand’s German-Bohemian settlers have played, sung and danced to the music, songs and rhymes in this treasury of folk music for over 150 years. The songs have been painstakingly rebuilt through interviews with descendants of those first settlers, research into European folk songs and transcriptions of recordings. They can be played on most instruments and are a thoroughly readable and singable resource for young and old. After Winter Comes the Summer also offers insights into the lives of the people of Pūhoi, and later Ōhaupō, both in their native country and in a new and unfamiliar land. It is a case study of a small colonial New Zealand village, its development and growth, its music and culture, and its relationships and links back to Bohemia.
