NT Indigenous Music Awards are part of the Darwin Festival and are run by Music NT in association with the Northern Territory Government’s Indigenous Arts Development Unit. Motto: None Nickname: ? Other Australian states and territories Capital Darwin Government Administrator Chief Minister Const. ...
26 August 2004: Inaugural Indigenous Music Awards
27 August 2005, held at the Marrara Outdoor Stadium
Yothu Yindi 2004, to name just some of the legendary acts that have graced stages from remote NT communities to international venues.
Yothu Yindi (Yolngu for Child and Mother) is an Australian band with Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal members. ...
Indigenous Radio Award – Most Popular Song
Supported by Radio Larrakia, CAAMA and TEABBA. The Central Australian Aboriginal Music Association (CAAMA) is an organization founded in 1980 by Freda Glynn, Phillip Batty and John Macumba in order to expose Aboriginal music and culture to the rest of Australia from its Alice Springs media centre. ...
Stompen Ground Festival in Broome, in the Kimberley region of Western Australia is an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander owned, designed and managed arts and cultural festival. ... This is a list of Australian Aboriginal musicians. ...
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ABC Message Stick NT Indigenous Music Awards 2005 on 27th August 2005
It is also the only Australian capital city to have come under substantial attack during any war: on February 19, 1942, Japanese planes made two major air raids on Darwin, the first of 63 air attacks experienced by the city during World War II.
Darwin has the largest proportional population of indigenous Australians of any Australian capital city, and a significant percentage of its residents are recent immigrants from South and East Asia.
The Darwin Festival[2], held annually, includes comedy, dance, theatre, music, film and visual art and the NTIndigenousMusicAwards.
The self-declared indigenous population—including Torres Strait Islanders, who are of Melanesian descent—was 410,003 (2.2% of the total population) in 2001, a significant increase from the 1977 census, which showed an indigenous population of 115,953.
The traditions of indigenous Australians are largely transmitted orally and are closely tied to ceremony and the telling of the stories of the Dreamtime.
In 1973, Patrick White was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the only Australian to have achieved this; he is recognised as one of the great English-language writers of the 20th century.
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