Boys from Djarragun College, an indigenous school near Cairns in north Queensland, Australia, perform traditional dances from Mer (Murray Island) in the eastern Torres Strait Islands, at the Townsville Cultural Fest in 2010. They are accompanied by drumming and singing.
Djarragun College students from the Torres Strait islands perform traditional dances during the Townsville Cultural Fest. This is a mixed group of boys and girls from different islands. The dance is from Boigu Island, in the far north of the Torres Strait. The song is by Afa Anau …
Young boys and men of the White Cockatoo dance group from Barunga and Beswick (Wugularr) in the Northern Territory enter the corroboree ground and go around it and then perform traditional dance on the dusty ground, to the accompaniment of singing and playing of the didgeridoo …
Aboriginal children paint up and perform a "wungubal", corroboree dance on the beach in Numbulwar, a Nunggubuyu community on the east coast of Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory of Australia.
When ceremony was a big part of everyones life. It was filmed and played out to the community through EVTV (Ernabella Video TV) the first and only pirate TV station. There was no internet, only ABC which was switched off to show ceremony on EVTV. This video is a shortened edit …
Blekbala Mujik (Kriol for "Blackfellow Music") was a very successful band of Aboriginal musicians, with founding member and leader Peter Miller. Hailing from Barunga, an Aboriginal community just south of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia, they combined pop, rock …
Torres Strait islander boys, students from Djarragun College, march onto the stage during the Townsville Cultural Fest. They perform the “Paddle Dance” from Boigu Island (just south of Papua New Guinea), in the far north of the Torres Strait; the song, “Kutau Gutha Thia”, …
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