The recent GARMA festival saw TEABBA & CAAMA come together for live to air broadcasting..this relationship fosters & strengthens bonds between organisations within media. BIG thanks to the crew of TEABBA for there support.
Get the lowdown from people on the ground..Live feed from www.icnn.com.au
Jessica Czender was interviewed by the G-Man during the Tamworth Country Music Festival in 2010.
walking after midnight was one of the songs she sang. G-Man discovered her in 2009 while busking in the street. Jessica is 14yrs old.
The 20th Annual Oysterfest is where CAAMA Radio will be once again…The West Coast (SA) town of Ceduna hosts Australia’s largest oyster festival, the annual Oysterfest in Ceduna, on the SA October long weekend.
The Oysterfest in Ceduna features the delicious oysters from Smoky Bay and Denial Bay, both cooked and natural. The Oysterfest remains free of entry fees and this is greatly due to the commitment of local and corporate sponsorship and community participation…So stay tuned to CAAMA Radio as we will once again broadcast LIVE from this amazing community.
Building on the success of the 2009 initiative to tour The Black Arm Band’s murundak to remote Indigenous Australia, The Fred Hollows Foundation have invited The Black Arm Band to share the partner piece, Hidden Republic with Aboriginal audiences in a second remote community tour in 2010. hrough the pioneering vision and generous support of The Fred Hollows Foundation, Hidden Republic will visit remote Indigenous communities across Northern and Western Australia throughout July and August 2010. The large-scale tour of performances and music workshops includes community ovals, basketball courts and football fields in Maningrida, Manyallaluk, Wadeye, Fitzroy Crossing and Papunya.
The Black Arm Band and The Fred Hollows Foundation are working closely together with community to deliver a program of music workshops and showcase performances which utilise music as an instrument of identity, hope, resistance and self-determination. These programs reflect The Black Arm Band’s belief that music is a powerful vehicle for community change and social inclusion, in evidence at every performance and workshop. [More]
Its semi-football time at Traeger Park with CAAMA broadcasting the game between MacDonald District & Ltyentye Apurte..
MacDonald District: 11-9-75 Ltyentye Apurte: 15-7-97
The ancient sound of the yidaki (didgeridu) calls all people to come together in unity; to gather together for the sharing of knowledge and culture, to learn from and to listen to one another. On 6 August 2010, this call announced the 12th annual Garma Festival, being held at Gulkula (40 kilometres from the township of Nhulunbuy) until 10 August & this year CAAMA Radio came along for the ride & experience of top end culture..
Photos by Justine Guschlbauer
Regarded as Australia’s most significant Indigenous cultural exchange event, the Garma Festival attracts clan groups from north east Arnhem Land, and representatives from clan groups and neighbouring Indigenous peoples throughout Arnhem Land, the Northern Territory (NT) and the rest of Australia.
The key forum theme for 2010 is Indigenous education and training.
The Garma Festival is a celebration of the Yolngu cultural inheritance. The Garma ceremony is aimed at sharing knowledge and culture, and opening people’s hearts to the message of the land at Gulkula. The site at Gulkula has profound meaning for Yolngu.
Set in a stringybark forest with views to the Gulf of Carpentaria, Gulkula is where the ancestor Ganbulabula brought the yidaki (didjeridu) into being among the Gumatj people. The festival is designed to encourage the practice, preservation and maintenance of traditional dance (bunggul), song (manikay), art and ceremony on Yolngu lands in Northeast Arnhem Land. CAAMA Radio will be broadcasting this festival live from Friday the 6th…
Jawoyn CEO Preston Lee Thanked CAAMA for there professional & friendly manner during the 25th Anniversary of the BARUNGA Festival…and invited CAAMA back for the 2011 event..
CAAMA was a media partner for this festival.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nations from all over Australia converged at the foot of the McDonnell Ranges outside of Alice Springs in 2000, the land of the Yeperenye Caterpillar Dreaming to participate in a spectacle of Dancing and Singing.
Sharing Indigenous history through music. This program features some of Australia’s best musicians such as Yothu Yindi, Warren H Williams, John Williamson, Troy Cassar Daley, Frank Yamma, The Warumpi Band and much much more.
“A garma is a sort of place – of rich resources for many people, this garma thing. For all yolngu people. Like this, all yolngu always used to come to this thing garma, coming together, all different groups.” Gunygulu Yunupingu
The ancient sound of the yidaki (didgeridu) is a call to all people to come together in unity. This call will announce the annual Garma, the largest and most vibrant celebration of Yolngu Aboriginal people of north east Arnhem Land) culture in recent memory.
Regarded as Australia’s most significant Indigenous cultural exchange event, the Garma Festival attracts around clan groups from north east Arnhem Land, as well as representatives from clan groups and neighbouring Indigenous peoples throughout Arnhem Land, the Northern Territory and Australia. [More]
NAIDOC opening celebrations took place in Alice Springs on Monday with a large crowd gathering in Alice Plaza.
