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Australian Art Orchestra - Crossing Roper Bar
Elisabeth Murdoch Hall
Friday, August 28, 2009 at 7:30 p.m.

ARTISTS

Australian Art Orchestra

PROGRAM

 -  Crossing Roper Bar

The Roper River is a magnificent waterway flowing from Mataranka, 100 kms south of Katherine. Before it reaches the Gulf of Carpentaria it passes the remote town of Ngukurr which is isolated by the Wet for several months of each year. In 2004, the artistic director of the Australian Art Orchestra, Paul Grabowsky, made the journey across Roper Bar. Ngukurr is an ideal place to learn about Aboriginal music because it is the cultural gathering point for outlying peoples of the Wagilak, Ngalmi, Murrungun, Nunthirrbala, Mungurra, Lalara and Wurramurra nations, who come together under the name Yugul Mangi. Crossing Roper Bar is a collaboration based on an equal exchange of knowledge through a dialogue centred on music.

Watch the video of Crossing Roper Bar here

— Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre and Australian Art Orchestra

—7.30pm, Elisabeth Murdoch Hall

—1 hour 30mins concert duration (no interval)

—A reserve $50 ($35 concession)

—B reserve $40 ($25 concession)