Barkly Voices Project: Keep My Culture Strong

The Barkly Voices Project, sponsored by IBA’s subsidiary IBA Retail Asset Management, saw 160 schoolchildren, Traditional Owners and community members from the Barkly Region contribute their voices. The singing collaboration has shown how music can unify communities in the Northern Territory.

The project arranged and remixed a song composed and recorded by Barkly musician Brian Morton and Australian musician and songwriter Neil Murray. 4 schools took part in the collaboration including Tennant Creek Primary School, the Munkarta Homelands, Murray Downs (Imangarra) Primary School and Elliott Public School (with singer Ray Dimakarri Dixon). Other organisations contributing their voices included Catholic Care, Nyinkka Nyunyu Art and Culture Centre and Papulu Apparr-Kari Language Centre.