The Black Arm Band

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notes from the hard road and beyond: Melbourne Festival, review - Artshub

25 November 2011

By Suzanne Yanko    ArtsHub | Tuesday, October 25, 2011

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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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'murundak' and Koorie Sounds at Wominjeka Festival - Footscray Community Arts Centre - Sat 21 & Sun 22 Jan 2012

5 December 2011

Join The Black Arm Band Company, performing murundak in the West for the first time. Since its premiere performance at the 2006 Melbourne Festival, murundak , meaning 'alive' in Woiwurrung language, has delighted audiences across the globe.

In an uplifting tribute to the inspirational Ruby Hunter, The Black Arm Band Company comes together to Wominjeka to perfromance an outstanding songbook of contemporary Aboriginal music. This historic msuical event re-orchestrates many anthemic works and couples them with gentle laments and infectious love songs to take audiences on a spiritual jounrey of contemporary Indigenous Australia.

More than a retrospective of songs, murundak tells the story of undiminishec spirit, a kind of secret but important social history of Australia. A tale of struggle and identity, sweat and blood, guitars and dusty roads. Don't miss the chance to see some of the most respected names in Australian music including Archie Roach, Lou Bennett, Shellie Morris, Bart Willoughby, Emma Donovan, Djolpa McKenzie, Mark Atkins and Stephen Pigram.

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Hidden 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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dirtsong, Premiere

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.

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