Kent Daniel
A singer and multi-instrumentalist who also plays accordion and bouzouki. Kent has led the Hunter Valley dance band Bushfire since 1987 and spent 11 years with the Musica Viva program in schools.
Paragon Cafe: an album of Australian acoustic music from 1993
A CD from 1993 of Australian acoustic, traditional and contemporary music, played by Kent Daniel, Coralie Rae Tosswill, Lilo Blyton and Steve Elphick.
Total running time 50min 40secsADD
A collection of Australian acoustic traditional and contemporary music
Produced by Coralie Tosswill and Justin McCoy. © 1993 All rights reserved.
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The musicians
Paragon Cafe was four musicians: Kent Daniel, Coralie Rae Tosswill, Lilo Blyton and Steve Elphick.
Coralie Rae Tosswill
A mandolin player from Sydney's classical mandolin scene. Coralie performed with the Sydney Mandolins in the early 1980s, and in 1990 she commissioned composer Ann Carr-Boyd to write a Fantasy for organ and mandolins for the 100th birthday of the Sydney Town Hall organ. She is also known as Coralie Wales and Coralie Mckinn.
Lilo Blyton
A fiddle player and violinist who started at 14 and has performed for more than 50 years, with Celtic and American fiddle styles her speciality. She also plays mandolin, toured schools with Musica Viva in the 1990s, and in 2015 became the first Australian accredited to teach the O'Connor Method for strings.
Steve Elphick
One of Australia's best known double bass players. Steve is a long-time member of the jazz group Ten Part Invention, and in June 2026 he was ABC Jazz's Artist in Residence.
Recorded by Justin McCoy in his Strathfield studio
Justin McCoy, a Sydney musician, composer, producer and recording engineer, produced the album and recorded it in his home studio in Strathfield. The studio started out in a back room of the house and later moved to a little shed out the back.
It began as a four track setup and became more sophisticated in the early 1990s. Justin loved that studio and loved recording, and many of the songs were done in a single take.
Justin also played with the group at one point, touring New South Wales with Paragon Cafe through Musica Viva, and played in the band Van Demon. On the recording itself, Kent Daniel played guitar and sang.
Read more about Justin McCoyAbout the album
Paragon Cafe is a collection of Australian acoustic, traditional and contemporary music. It was released on CD in 1993.
1993Year released
14Tracks on the CD
50:40Total length in minutes
Bonnie Jean TosswillPainted the cover
The CD credits production to Coralie Tosswill and Justin McCoy.
Photos
Images of the Australian countryside and country towns to go with the music.
