C4 From Little Things

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April 29, 2023
6.00pm - 7.30pm
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Fitters' Workshop
Printers Way, Kingston, ACT 2604
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General Admission $80.00,
Concession $72.00

As Paul Kelly sings so memorably : “From little things, big things grow”. This choral concert brings together young people from Canberra’s own singing community together with the Djinama Yilaga choir from the Yuin community down the coast. They sing about our home, our land, our sky, our people.
Program
William Barton, A Little Thing
Stephen Leek, Kondalilla
Paul Stanhope, I have not your dreaming
Karlin G. Love, Matins & Lauds
Djinama Yilaga
Yaway
Bayunga
Dhanga
Our Way
Woden Valley Youth Choir
Paul John Rudoi (Text Brhadaranyaka Upanishad, I.iii.28), Gamaya
Tracy Wong, JAM! (Jom-Ayuh-Mari!)
Alex Turley (text Greta Thunberg), Never Too Small
Djinama Yilaga
Walawaani
Ghanbi – Fire
Ode to Barak
Yana yana
Traditional Torres Straight Island Lullaby, Baba Waian
Djinama Yilaga/L. Bennett arr. G. Badger, Marindamu
Maranoa Lullaby, Traditional song
Billy Joel arr. K. Shaw, And so it goes
Simon Garfunkel arr. K. Fox, Feeling Groovy
Artists
Djinama Yilaga Choir
Woden Valley Youth Choir, directed by Olivia Swift
False Relations
Archie Tulk, bass
Gabriel Desiderio, baritone
Liam Green, tenor
Austin O’Toole, tenor
with
William Barton, didgeridoo
Oliver Shermacher, clarinet
Ronan Apcar, piano
Get your tickets now
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April 29, 2023
6.00pm - 7.30pm
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Fitters' Workshop
Printers Way, Kingston, ACT 2604
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General Admission $80.00,
Concession $72.00
ARTIST Learn more about the artist
Artist Djinama Yilaga Choir
Artist William Barton
William Barton is Australia’s leading didgeridoo player as well as composer, instrumentalist and vocalist. William started learning the instrument from his first learnt the uncle, Arthur Peterson, an elder of the Wannyi, Lardil and Kalkadunga people and was working from an early age with traditional dance groups and fusion/rock jazz bands, orchestras, string quartets, and mixed ensembles. Throughout his diverse career he has forged a path in the classical musical world, from the London and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras to historic events at Westminster Abbey for Commonwealth Day 2019, at Anzac Cove in Gallipoli and for the Beijing Olympics. His awards include Winner of Best Original Score for a Mainstage Production at the 2018 Sydney Theatre Awards and Winner of Best Classical Album with an ARIA for Birdsong At Dusk in 2012. In 2021 he was the recipient of the prestigious Don Banks Music Award from the Australia Council and in 2022 he was announced as Australian of the Year for Queensland for 2023. With his prodigious musicality and building on his Kalkadunga heritage, William has vastly expanded the horizons of the didgeridoo.