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The Song Keepers
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Title:
The Song Keepers
Year
2017
Courtesy
Screen Australia and Brindle Films
Warnings
WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that the following program may contain images and/or audio of deceased persons
In the obscure churches of remote Central Australia, a hidden musical legacy of ancient Aboriginal languages, sacred poetry and baroque music is being preserved by four generations of song women who make up the Central Australian Aboriginal Women’s Choir.
Against all odds and with the help of their charismatic conductor, the choir embarks on an historic tour of Germany to take back the hymns that were given to their great grandparents by German missionaries, now sung in their own Aboriginal languages.
Together they share their music and stories of cultural survival, identity and cross-cultural collaboration.
Come on an adventure as the unlikeliest band on earth goes on tour to the other side of the world!
Producer
Rachel Clements, Trisha Morton-Thomas, Naina Sen
Cinematographer/Director of Photography
Chris Phillips, Naina Sen
Composer
Erkki Veltheim
Editor
Bergen O'Brien
Scriptwriter
Naina Sen
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.