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Uncle JIMMY LITTLE was a genuinely lovely soul who loomed large in Australian popular music history. The first indigenous singer to have a Top 10 hit died yesterday after a long illness, aged 75. He was a universally loved figure among Aboriginal people and in the wider Australian public.

Little was a warm and gentle person who was born at the Cummeragunja Mission outside Barmah on the banks of the Murray River. As a young man, he moved to Sydney to further his musical career. His natural, warm singing voice was perfect for the times. He was a consummate mellow balladeer who was often favourably compared to both Nat King Cole and the smooth US country crossover singer Jim Reeves. Continue reading →

Country music icon, Warren H Williams has released his first language album, Winanjjara – with help from family. Winanjjara translates to mean “song man” in the Tennant Creek language of Warumungu and is an Australian album speaking of love, land and family. Continue reading →

Auriel Andrew (born 1947 Darwin, Northern Territory) is a country musician of the Arrernte people of Central Australia. Auriel grew up in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, leaving for Adelaide, South Australia aged 21 to pursue her music career. Continue reading →

Welcome to All People – written by renowned singer/songwriter/activist Ruby Hunter
Performed during DesertSong at the Araluen Cultural Centre, Alice Springs during the Alice Desert Festival 2011 (10 September 2011). The singers are from the following choirs: Areyonga Gospel and Church Choir, Titjikala Choir, Asante Sana, NT Music School Choir, and Yirara College and Living Waters Primary School combined choir. The conductor is Morris Stuart.

 

Celebrating the launch of Growing Our Own at Santa Teresa: (from left) Claire Kilgariff, Therese Kersten, Dr Al Strangeways, Kirsten Braun, Professor Peter Kell, Marcus Williams, David Reilly, Anita Kuman Gorey, Professor Giselle Byrnes, Karina Cavanagh and Ali Gallio Continue reading →

This Friday March 30 starting 6pm, Abmusic are holding a special concert in memory of Uncle Peter Nelson.

For more event details contact Candice 0424 344 247

Abmusic College 295 Manning Road, WATERFORD (Clontarf Campus) Continue reading →

The Centralian Clontarf Academy from Centralian Senior College is travelling north to the Stuart Highway Challenge this Friday night in Tennant Creek. They will play Tenant Creek and Katherine Clontarf Academies in a round robin football tournament.

Around 30 people from a Indigenous Business Seminar held at the Convention Centre visited CAAMA today to see how aboriginal employment is being implemented on the ground.

Jeanette Wormald is one of a new breed of singer/songwriters who can reflect what it’s like to be Australian without having to draw upon the stereotypes which have characterised so much of this music in the past. Born in Adelaide in South Australia, then raised in the small rural community of Mount Compass, her music reflects all the elements of living on the land. The hot sun, the wide blue sky, the hard bush life and our often-unacknowledged Aboriginal heritage.

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CAAMA & IMPARJA staff have combined to form an indoor basketball team that all others have bowed too… They head the competition in there division and are all pumped for the finals…Great team work…they walk the walk & talk the talk.
‘Lauren Crawley; Nerida Currey; Micheal & Alicia Smith; Rob Mitchell; Jacinta Price; Ray Stork…behind Camera Michael Robertson