Murru is a unique compilation album, bringing together some of Australia's most celebrated Indigenous artists and talented non-Indigenous blues, folk and alt-country stars to work with inmates and community members from the remote
Pilbara town of Roebourne to create a memorial album to mark the 30th anniversary of the death of 16-year old John Pat who died in a police cell in Roebourne on the 28th September 1983. The aim of the album is to raise funds for a memorial to John to be built in Roebourne, and create discussion around the need for strategies to reduce Indigenous incarceration rates and eradicate preventable deaths in custody.
Author: Community Arts Network W.A.; Hyams, David; Ghouse, Guy
Call no: B/572.994 SHI
Year: 2014
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"Over the last three years Healing Songs has brought together Elders and young people who have shared their songs about life, love and country."--Book foreword.
The CD/DVD album is a culmination of a three-year Healing Songs music workshop program with the communities of Quairading and Kellerberrin. Working alongside professional artists, 10 local first-time performers turned their heartfelt personal stories into professionally recorded songs. The beautiful collection of original ballads compiled in the album tells tales of love, loss, life, culture and country. Some songs have been more than 50 years in the making.--CAN WA website
