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Buddy Knox – He’s our blues brother Buddy
The Buddy Knox Blues Band continues a family tradition and brought a new sound to this year’s Tamworth Country Music Festival. Being a Tamworth local, Buddy Knox is no stranger to the nation’s top music festival. After wowing audiences at the Tamworth Country Music Festival in 2007 and 2008, Buddy returned with his blues band […]
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Catherine Sumner
Deadly Vibe Issue 106, December 2005 Stars in her Eyes This young musician has Nashville in her sights. When it comes to country music, Indigenous Australia has its fair share of talent ” Troy Cassar-Daley, Todd Williams, the Donovans, Auriel Andrews, Vic Simms, Warren H. Williams ” the list goes on and on. There is […]
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Cultural Concert
Deadly Vibe Issue 96 February 2005 Concert of the Ages It was on for young and old at Tamworth’s Bicentennial Park during a special cultural concert. A huge, free concert was held in Tamworth’s Bicentennial Park on Tuesday, January 18 to promote and showcase Aboriginal country music. Featuring a line-up that combined our newest Indigenous […]
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Shelly Atkins
Tamworth-based Shelly Atkins is the first female singer/songwriter to sign with CAAMA. Shelly has been surrounded by music all her life. Her father, Mark Atkins, is a nationally acclaimed didgeridoo player with many recordings and performances to his credit. As a young singer in Tamworth, Shelly found herself singing country music with various bands. But […]
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Jimmy Little
Deadly Vibe Issue 89 July 2004 Life’s what he makes it Singing legend Jimmy Little has been on the most incredible journey this year. In February, after performing a show with James Blundell in Denmark on the southern coast of Western Australia, Jimmy got the phone call he’d waited two years for. There was a […]
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Col Hardy
The Centenary of Federation is a good time to acknowledge and celebrate the achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and their contributions to Australia during the past 100 years. One man whose contribution to Aboriginal country music has been enormous is singer Col Hardy. Once dubbed “the gentle giant of country-soul”, Col Hardy […]
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Troy Brady
Troy’s musical career began at 16 when he taught himself to play guitar from a songbook of “The Shadows” provided by his father. Two years later, his singing talent was noticed by his mother when she heard him and some friends having a sing-along to a boombox in the garage. This resulted in his involvement […]
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Kutcha Edwards
A child of the Stolen Generation, Kutcha Edwards talks about his struggles as a child, his success as a musician and his joy at becoming a father. When Kutcha Edwards was 18 months old, he was taken from his mother and father and placed in care. He subsequently spent most of his childhood in institutions. […]
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Warren Milera
>Deadly Vibe Issue 83 There are many talented singers in the music industry today that can impress an audience with spectacular renditions of other people’s songs. However Warren Milera, an Indigenous country music artist from South Australia, makes himself heard through his original and evocative songwriting talents. Warren sings from the heart and is a […]
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Saltwater Band
Deadly Vibe Issue 110 April 2006 A Royal Occasion Saltwater Band says “Nhämirri nhe”* to Her Majesty the Queen. STORY: The fellas from Saltwater Band from Elcho Island were invited by the Prime Minister to open the procession in a special service at Sydney’s St Andrew’s Cathedral for Queen Elizabeth II while she was visiting […]
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Todd Williams
>DEADLY VIBE ISSUE 72 February, 2003 Wiradjuri fulla Todd Williams has become the first Indigenous person to win Tamworth Country Music Festival’s Toyota Star Maker Quest in its 24-year history. The emotional win, which gives Todd a car, a recording contract and a full round of gigs for the next year, means he is well […]
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Amunda
Amunda formed in Alice Springs in 1995. Their name is derived from the Arremte word for Alice Springs ” Mbantua. Their current line up is Paul Ah Chee on vocals, electric and acoustic guitar; Stanley Satour on vocals and bass; and Nic Guggisberg on drums, vocals, and acoustic slide guitar The band first travelled interstate […]
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Seaman Dan
Born in 1929 on Thursday Island in the Torres Strait, Seaman Dan spent years on the water as a pearl diver and later, sea captain. The multicultural atmosphere of the pearling industry exposed him to a range of musical influences that he has incorporated into his music. Seaman’s musical career came to fruition in 1999 […]
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Wilga Williams
A tall and talented musician with country in her veins, Wilga Williams helped to establish the Aboriginal country music scene in New South Wales and Victoria. With their band the Country Outcasts, Harry and Wilga Williams released two albums, played countless gigs and organised a number of festivals throughout the ’70s and ’80s. Vibe talks […]
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North Tanami Band
A Lajamanu Kind Of Summer What has this summer got in stall for the North Tanami Band ? We spoke with Rex Patterson from the band to find out. This well-respected Northern Territory band comes from Lajamanu, 800kms north-west of Alice Springs. The band is made up of Rex, and his two sons Zack and […]
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George Rrurrambu
Deadly Vibe Issue 97 March 2005 A Little Respect He’s from the bush and he’s proud ” George Rrurrambu gets the message out. Talking to George Rrurrambu, you get a sense that you are in the presence of a powerful wisdom ” a man who appears to hold a deep understanding of the mysteries of […]
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