Tura Travellers 2015

Tura Travellers 2015 The Reflection Tour WILLIAM BARTON STEPHEN PIGRAM THE ECHO ENSEMBLE

9-21 SEPTEMBER 2015 KUNUNURRA, WYNDHAM, EL QUESTRO, BROOME, COCONUT WELLS, BEAGLE BAY, DJARINDJIN/ LOMBADINA AND ONE ARM POINT.

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An Invitation

As part of our annual Regional Touring Program, Tura offers the opportunity for a very limited number of Tura Donors to travel with a section of the Reflection Tour to Northern Australia.

Tura Travellers is a 12 day cultural adventure embedded into the daily life of this unique musical tour. Travellers experience all of the programmed events including performances in some of the most stunning environments in Australia, as well as school and community workshops in remote communities.

Special performance events are scheduled for Travellers and there are the spontaneous moments that only the touring entourage get to experience.

Wilderness and cultural side trips are also part of the Travellers itinerary.

With over 10 years of experience in the regions Tura has established not only local knowledge but relationships with the right people giving Travellers access to land and culture not openly available.

The Tura Travellers appeals to people who are interested in cultural development and want to see amazing music in stunning locations and experience the landscape and culture of regions rarely visited by most Australians.

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The Reflection Tour September 2015 The Reflection Tour brings together Australia’s leading, internationally acclaimed Aboriginal artists William Barton and Stephen Pigram.

Traveling through the breath taking landscape of the Kimberly, their stunning performances, in collaboration with the Echo Ensemble will transport travellers to new worlds and inspire communities. Full of celebration alongside powerful histories this meeting of cultural forces will bring together two of the worlds leading didgeridoo artists, songs of outback Australia and new commissioned music for the tour.

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William Barton William Barton is one of Australia’s leading didgeridoo players and composers and is a powerful advocate for the wider perception of his cultural traditions.

Born in Mount Isa, he was taught the instrument by his uncle, an elder of the Waanyi, Lardil and Kalkadunga tribes of western Queensland.

He was appointed Musician-inresidence with the Queensland Orchestra in 2002/2003 and has since widely toured and performed with the orchestra. to promote the didgeridoo here and overseas. William tours nationally and internationally collaboratingwith composers, performing with orchestras, and recording.

“My passion is to create a journey for people through music and present to them a diversity in musical styles with the didgeridoo and engage with audiences about the uniqueness of Australia. It has been a specific passion of mine to work closely with classical music and composers to develop and sustain music for the didgeridoo in this environment” “Barton is a phenomenal didgeridoo virtuoso, eliciting extraordinary colours and sounds” The Australian

Stephen Pigram Hailing from Broome in Australia’s far North West Kimberley region, Stephen Pigram is a slnger/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist musician playing acoustic guitar, harmonica, ukulele and more. He is one seventh of the Pigram Brothers band whose particular kind of ‘saltwater country’ music has attracted many fans both in Australia and beyond. Stephen also tours nationally and internationally as a featured artist with the acclaimed Black Arm Band ensemble.

He was a member of legendary Broome bands Kuckles and Scrap Metal, and was Musical Director for the original production of the first Aboriginal musical and recent major Australian film, Bran Nue Dae. He also played a major role in the development and production of the recent Australian film Mad Bastards as both producer and composer.

In 2006 Stephen and brother Alan were inducted into the West Australian Music Industry Hall of Fame, the first indigenous artists to receive this honour.

The Echo Ensemble Leading Australian instrumentalists Stephen Magnusson (guitars), Erkki Veltheim (viola) and Steve Richter (percussion), and other special guests, bring together creative and technical virtuosity across a vast ocean of music genres and styles.

Their unique blend brings the perfect music layering to sounds and stories of and William Barton.

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Following the music through the landscape “It was a great privilege to be part of the Tura New Music Reef Tour. There were so many unique experiences, the bush, the outback colours, the marvellous concerts and the wonderful characters involved in the music. It is an experience that cannot be matched as each day holds new and interesting surprises. Mud crabbing being just one highlight.

It is great to see and experience the remote communities along the road to Cape Leveque and to share the experience of the music with people who rarely have had an opportunity of hearing great live music. Highly recommended for any one wanting to see and experience some authentic Australian joy.”

Irene Lawson ( Melbourne ) Tura Traveller 2012 the Reef Tour

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“It was a privilege for us to visit the Dampier Peninsular in the company of Tura New Music Resonance Tour.

The arrangements were second to none in terms of accommodation and hospitality. Travelling with the musicians and seeing them musically interacting with the children in the communities was delightful.

A concert at night in that landscape under those stars!....I would do it again in a heartbeat. The Tura experience was a joy and huge fun..... I havent laughed so much in a long time.”

Ian and Ros de Souza (Perth) Tura Travellers in 2014 with the Resonance Tour

“The most amazing cultural tour imaginable – Tura not only brings together great artists in unique combinations but has developed invaluable relationships with communities across Northern Australia allowing for vital cultural exchange. That Tura is able to do this with such care and professionalism as well as include Tura Travellers in such meaningful way is a great gift. To be able to support Tura’s Regional Program at the same time as having this unique experience of culture, landscape and people was truly lifechanging.”

Helen Symon (Melbourne) Tura Traveller for both the 2011 Kalkadunga Man Tour and 2012 Reef Tour.

Tura Travellers 2015Â Itinerary

Wednesday 9th September Arrive Kununurra Sunset at Kelly’s Knob Dinner at Pump House on Lake Kununnura Thursday 10th September Drive to Wyndham via Water Holes Sunset Drinks on Wyndham Pier Stay at Parry Creek Friday 11th September Schools presentation at Wyndham Telegraph Hill Sunset Event Parry Creek Concert

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Saturday 12th September Drive to Emma Gorge Emma Gorge Walk!

Stay at Emma Gorge Resort Sunday 13th September Zebedee Springs Drive to Kununurra (40 min) Evening concert at Ivanhoe Farms with Mirriwong Dancers Monday 14th September Kunnunurra Schools Ord River Boat Trip Tuesday 15th September Fly to Broome Evening Dinner at Cocount Wells Star gazing event with Greg Quicke

Wednesday 16th September

Sunday 20th September

Drive to Beagle Bay Schools Workshop/Community Concert Drive to Kooljaman

Morning cultural adventure with Stephen Pigram Broome Concert

Thursday 17th September Djarindjin Schools (or cultural tour) Djarindjin Concert

Monday 21st September Fly Home Customised Tura Travellers packages can be created to suit donors requirements

Friday 18th September Cultural Tour with Brian Lee Evening concert with Bardi Dancers Saturday 19th September Return to Broome via Middle Lagoon

The Reef Tour 2012 in Broome.

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Tura Traveller Costs

DARWIN

ONE ARM POINT DJARINDJIN / LOMBADINA

Tura Traveller: To be a Tura Traveller requires a minimum Tax Deductible Donation of $5000 plus tour costs of $2,500 which covers: • Accommodation from Friday 10th Monday 21st September • All ground travel • VIP tickets to all public concerts • VIP hospitality prior to all concerts

BEAGLE BAY

All donations raised through Tura Travellers go directly toward the support of our Regional Programs.

Tura New Music is a not for profit company limited by guarantee. The Tura New Music (Donation Fund) is a tax-deductible fund listed on the Australian Government’s Register of Cultural Organisations maintained under Subdivision 30-B of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997.

WYNDHAM EMMA GORGE KUNUNURRA

BROOME

PORT HEADLAND KARRATHA

ROEBOURNE

• Cultural tours and side trips * Does not include meals, travel to Kununura and from Broome.

PERTH

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Community Benefits and Outcomes Tura’s Regional Projects promote collaboration and direct involvement with our musicians by participants and audiences. Through the music outreach programs our touring artists engage directly with individuals and groups in the communities, encouraging direct interaction with the musicians and provides access, involvement and active participation with music.

Our Regional Tours: •

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Make a contribution to individual’s sense of inclusion in their communities.

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Raise awareness of regional and remote communities in the hearts and minds of Western Australians.

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Promote values of reconciliation.

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Leave behind a positive lasting legacy.

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Provide unique on-site multicultural collaborations to economically disadvantaged communities.

Promote community engagement with and access to arts and cultural activity of a calibre that would not otherwise be experienced by the communities; and Engender community pride by taking international quality music to communities that have extremely limited ability to attract high calibre artists to their communities themselves.

Western Australia’s regional communities are geographically disadvantaged when it comes to access to high calibre arts and cultural product. Tura’s Regional Program attempts to address that disadvantage.

Our students just do not get the opportunity to experience these beautiful cultural interchanges and I believe they benefit enormously on academic and social levels when given the opportunity.

GRAEME HORTIN, TEACHER IN CHARGE, ARTS LEARNING AREA, BROOME SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, DECEMBER 2009

Goolarri Media Enterprises has supported the work of Tura within the Kimberley region for many years now and … we congratulate them on their ongoing service to regional and remote Northern Australia in providing new, innovative, international quality programs which involve intercultural collaboration.

KIRA FONG, CHIEF OF OPERATIONS, GOOLARRI MEDIA ENTERPRISES, JANUARY 2010

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About Tura Tura is a new music and sonic arts organisation based in Perth, Western Australia. Tura has been a contributor to the Western Australian and national cultural sector for 26 years.

As a service provider, Tura supports the careers of composers, sound artists and performers, as well as advising a broad range of organisations on sound art initiatives.

Tura’s Vision: To be the driving force in the evolution of music and the sonic arts

Operating as a not-for-profit, Tura has successfully supported thousands of Australian artists and introduced tens of thousands of people to the wonderul diversity of all forms of new music and sound art practices. Tura is a producer as well as resource centre and advocate for New Music.

Tura New Music has a proven track record of successfully managing regional projects. Management and staff are highly experienced in devising and delivering projects to isolated regional areas. Exceptional professionalism and duty of care is exercised at all stages of planning and delivery, with particular attention given to protocol standards of Indigenous communities.

Tura’s Role: To enrich the creative life of Western Australia and the nation by developing and delivering new experiences in music and the sonic arts.

A year round program of events includes: • The Totally Huge New Music Festival • Sounds Outback • Scale Variable New Chamber Music Series • Club Zho • Regional Touring Program • Remote Residency Program • Artists in Residence Program • Young and Emerging Artists Program • Advocacy Programs 8

Not only is Tura experienced in meeting the challenges that remote touring entails, we have developed very strong relationships and networks within all the communities we have visited.

Returning to these communities will continue to strengthen those connections, which are vital to the success of the tour.

Board of Directors Simon Dawkins Gavin Ryan Liesbeth Goedhart Justine Lawler Robyn Johnston Staff Tos Mahoney, Artistic Director Annalisa Oxenburgh, General Manager Nancy Fox, Development and Marketing Manager

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Awards 2014 APRA|AMC Art Music Award Outstanding Contribution to Australian Music State

2007 Western Australian Business and the Arts Partnerships Awards – with Block Branding

2012 Australian Business and The Arts (AbaF) Awards – State Finalists with Total E&P Australia

2006 APRA|AMC Classical Music Awards – Outstanding Contribution to Australian Music in a Regional Area

2011 Australian Business and The Arts (AbaF) Awards – State Winners and National Finalists with Total E&P Australia 2009 APRA|AMC Classical Music Awards – Outstanding Contribution to Australian Music in a Regional Area 2009 Australian Business and the Arts (AbaF) Awards – National Finalists with Total E&P Australia 2008 APRA|AMC Classical Music Awards – Outstanding Contribution by an Organisation to Australian Music

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