WOMAD

Nganampa Music

From Australia

In October 2006, the renowned indigenous musician, Kev Carmody (also appearing at the festival) travelled to the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands (APY) Lands near the north west border of South Australia. He was joined by Adelaide-based musician, musical arranger and project manager Dylan Woolcock. Together they led a series of singer-songwriter workshops for a number of selected local musicians, and explored new ways of telling old stories. Trying to break outside of the confines of the most popular bush music – country and reggae – and giving them rare access to instruments and recording technology, a new band, Nganampa Music (meaning ‘our music’) was formed. The band, which features Mark and Nadine Burton, Stanley Windy and Dylan Woolcock, arranged and recorded their debut CD in Adelaide in January and will premiere at WOMADelaide, before going on to perform at WOMAD in the UK in July. The acoustic Nganampa Music tell the personal and traditional stories of the band members in a gentle acoustic style.