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dirtsong Reviews, MIAF 2009
26 October 2009
Apologies come in many forms. [ . . . ] Sometimes, they're a spirit that engulfs an entire auditorium when, through a powerful journey of song, the audience grasps, perhaps for the first time, the gravity of what happens when people are taken from the possession they treasure most: their country.
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WOMAD UK 2009 Reviews
27 July 2009
Having given a workshop on the Saddlespan Stage earlier that afternoon, indigenous Australian performers Shellie Morris and Mark Atkins joined the sprawling supergroup The Black Arm Band in the Siam Tent. There, before a backdrop of powerful and damning archive footage and to backing from strings, horns and piano courtesy of UK-bandleader Alex Wilson, some of Australia's best-loved artists delivered a history of Aboriginal folk protest song.
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View AllHidden Republic joins Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad program
27 January 2010
The Black Arm Band is thrilled to announce that it will be representing Australia in the 2010 Cultural Program of the Winter Olympics. For the first time in the Games history, the 2010 Olympics Cultural Program is focusing on Aboriginal programming, featuring many high profile Indigenous artists from around the world.
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3 August 2009
Presented by Melbourne International Arts Festival in association with Arts House and in collaboration with The Black Arm Band.
dirtsong is a music performance from Aboriginal Australia mixing traditional and contemporary songs, existing repertoire with newly commissioned music and sung in many Indigenous Australian languages.
2009 Remote and Regional Tour
16 July 2009
The Black Arm Band is excited to announce our up coming remote and regional tour in partnership with The Fred Hollows Foundation.
In a dynamic and visionary new Indigenous Health Partnership, The Black Arm Band and the Fred Hollows Foundation is embarking on a unique touring opportunity to present the large-scale murundak ('alive' in woirrurung language) and recent work, Hidden Republic to audiences across Australia's most isolated regions.
Tour Dates:
17 July
Queensland Music Festival
Thursday Island, Queensland
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