NT Indigenous Music Awards 2008

	NT Indigenous Music Awards 2008 The NT Indigenous Music Awards 2008 were the 5th annual National Indigenous Music Awards. The awards ceremony was held on 30 August 2008. Performers The Kenbi Dancers opened the award evening WildWater Tom E Lewis, Roy Ashley and Micky Hall. The Saltwater Band and Chooky Dancers from Elcho Island. Hall of Fame Inductee * Peter Miller and Blek Bala Mujik, Mark Raymond and the Kulumindini Band Special Recognition Award * Galarrwuy Yunupingu and Mr Nundhirribala Awards Act of the Year Emerging Act of the Year Album of the Year DVD/Film Clip of the Year Song of the Year Artwork of the Year Gospel Album of the Year Traditional Music Award Most Popular Song School Band of the Year References {{National Indigenous Music Awards 2008 in Australian music 2008 music awards 2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Northern Territory The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an states and territories of Australia, Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory shares its borders with Western Australia to the west (129th meridian east), South Australia to the south (26th parallel south), and Queensland to the east (138th meridian east). To the north, the territory looks out to the Timor Sea, the Arafura Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria, including Western New Guinea and other islands of the Indonesian archipelago. The NT covers , making it the third-largest Australian federal division, and List of country subdivisions by area, the 11th-largest country subdivision in the world. It is sparsely populated, with a population of only 249,000 – fewer than half as many people as in Tasmania. The largest population center is the capital city of Darwin, Northern Territory, Darwin. The archaeological hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Blek Bala Mujik Blekbala Mujik (Black People's Music) are an Australian rock, reggae group formed in Barunga, Northern Territory in 1986. They fused rock and reggae with a pop, dance sound and have support base for their live shows and recordings. They are cited in the ''World Music: The Rough Guide'' as next best known to Yothu Yindi. The band sings in English and in Kriol (a creole language based on English and Australian Aboriginal languages). At the ARIA Music Awards of 1996 their album, ''Blekbala Mujik'' (May 1996), was nominated for Best Indigenous Release. History Blekbala Mujik were formed in 1986 in the rural community of Barunga (Gulin-Gulin) in central Arnhem Land. The founding member, Peter Miller on vocals and guitar, lives in Alice Springs, and was a member of the Northern Land Council. The band sings partly in English and partly in Kriol, which is a creole language based on English and Australian Aboriginal languages. ''Blekbala mujik'' means "blackfella music" in Kriol. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	2008 In Australian Music 8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9. In mathematics 8 is: * a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2. * a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number of the form , being an integer greater than 1. * the first number which is neither prime nor semiprime. * the base of the octal number system, which is mostly used with computers. In octal, one digit represents three bits. In modern computers, a byte is a grouping of eight bits, also called an octet. * a Fibonacci number, being plus . The next Fibonacci number is . 8 is the only positive Fibonacci number, aside from 1, that is a perfect cube. * the only nonzero perfect power that is one less than another perfect power, by Mihăilescu's Theorem. * the order of the smallest non-abelian group all of whose subgroups are normal. * the dimension of the octonions and is the highest possible dimension of a normed division algebra. * the first number ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Gurrumul (album) ''Gurrumul'' is the debut solo album for Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu. It is performed in a mixture of both Yolngu and English. It reached number three on the ARIA charts, won ARIA awards for Best World Music Album and Best Independent Release and won a Deadly for Album of the Year. The track "Gurrumul History (I Was Born Blind)" also won a Deadly for Single of the Year. The album reached 3× Platinum sales in excess of 210,000. In October 2010, it was listed in the top 30 in the book, '' 100 Best Australian Albums''. On November 23, 2012, the album was certified Silver in the United Kingdom for sales of 60,000 copies. It is the best-selling Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander music album in Australian history, launching Yunupingu's international solo career and establishing him as one of Australia's most significant musical artists. In 2018, the album was inducted into the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia The Sounds of Australia, formerly the Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Bathurst To Melville The Tiwi Islands ( tiw, Ratuati Irara meaning "two islands") are part of the Northern Territory, Australia, to the north of Darwin adjoining the Timor Sea. They comprise Melville Island, Bathurst Island, and nine smaller uninhabited islands, with a combined area of . Inhabited before European settlement by the Tiwi, an Aboriginal Australian people, the islands' population was 2,348 at the . The Tiwi Land Council is one of four land councils in the Northern Territory. It is a representative body with statutory authority under the '' Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976'', and has responsibilities under the ''Native Title Act 1993'' and the '' Pastoral Land Act 1992''. Geography and population The Tiwi Islands were created by sea level rise at the end of the last ice age, which finished about 11,700 years ago, with the flooding occurring an estimated 8,200 to 9,650 years ago. The story of the flooding is told in Tiwi traditional stories and creation myths ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	B2M (band) B2M may refer to: * B2M (band), a musical band from the Tiwi Islands, Northern Territory, Australia * B2M Entertainment, a South Korean music label * Beta-2 microglobulin, a gene or protein * Boyz II Men American R&B music group * Business to many, businesses and consumers in marketing * D'Entrecasteaux-class patrol ship, a French Navy ship type designated as ''Bâtiment multi-mission'' (B2M) * Mitsubishi B2M The Mitsubishi B2M was a Japanese carrier-based torpedo bomber of the 1920s and 1930s. It was built by Mitsubishi to a design by Blackburn Aircraft of Britain and was operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy. Design and development In 1927, the ... , an aircraft {{Letter-NumberCombDisambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Leah Flanagan Leah Flanagan is an Australian singer-songwriter and arts administrator from Darwin, Northern Territory. based in Sydney. She has released several albums and has toured Australia with her music and as a part of festival ensembles. Early life and education Flanagan identifies as Indigenous Australian due to her Aboriginal ( Alyawarre) heritage. She studied classical music at the Elder Conservatorium of Music in Adelaide. Music career Flanagan has released several albums and has toured Australia with her music and as a part of festival ensembles. She has collaborated with Sinéad O'Connor, Meshell Ndegeocello, poet Sam Wagan Watson, The Black Arm Band, Paul Kelly and Ursula Yovich, and recorded a duet with Marlon Williams of Archie Roach’s "I’ve Lied". From 2009 to 2011, Flanagan performed in the productions ''Murundak'', ''Hidden Republic,'' and ''Dirtsong'' with the touring company The Black Arm Band at many major festivals across Australia. Her performances in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]