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Tagged: Australian musicians
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Archie Roach's powerful songs tell his story of heartbreaking loss, love and healing through music.
He is a Gunditjmara and Bundjalung man, born in Mooroopna, Victoria in 1956.
A musician, author...
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Like a fine box of assorted chocolates, our Advent Sound Calendar has something for all tastes.
We have cherrypicked a diverse collection of Christmas songs from the NFSA collection for your...
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Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter were partners in life and music for more than 35 years before Ruby's death in 2010.
It was Ruby who encouraged Archie to make his first album when he was reluctant,...
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Singer-songwriter Jack O'Hagan wrote over 600 songs, including 'Along the Road to Gundagai' and 'Our Don Bradman'.
O'Hagan also composed scores for silent films and stage shows, dance music and...
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Powderfinger's Bernard Fanning and producer Nick DiDia talk with the NFSA's Sam Dignand about the making of the band’s iconic album, Internationalist.
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This week marks 120 years since the birth of Australian singer-songwriter Jack O'Hagan, who wrote over 600 songs including 'Along The Road To Gundagai' and 'Our Don Bradman'.
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Don Mudie from The Groop discusses winning Battle of the Sounds in 1967, a story about Molly Meldrum, how important winning the contest to the success of the band, and what the members of The Groop...
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In 2016 Deborah Conway’s hit 'Alive and Brilliant' was entered in to the NFSA's Sounds of Australia. To commemorate the occasion, Conway, along with her partner and collaborator Willy Zygier,...
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Lead vocalist of Powderfinger, Bernard Fanning, with music producer Nick DiDia, talk with NFSA Creative Producer Sam Dignand about the making of the band’s iconic album Internationalist.
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At the official opening of the Kyana festival of Aboriginal arts, music and dance, on the Perth Esplanade in February 1993, Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter perform the song 'Louis St John'. The song was...