Stompen Ground Festival is a contemporary and traditional music, dance, art exhibitions and ancestral storytelling festival in
Broome, in the
Kimberley region of Western Australia
The Kimberley is the northernmost of the nine regions of Western Australia. It is bordered on the west by the Indian Ocean, on the north by the Timor Sea, on the south by the Great Sandy and Tanami deserts in the region of the Pilbara, an ...
. Stompend is an
Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander
Torres Strait Islanders () are the Indigenous Melanesian people of the Torres Strait Islands, which are part of the state of Queensland, Australia. Ethnically distinct from the Aboriginal people of the rest of Australia, they are often groupe ...
owned, designed and managed arts and cultural festival.
It includes:
*Music development workshops
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Battle of the bands
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Country music
Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, ...
night
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Dance forums &
traditional dance presentations
*Book launches
See also
*
Garma Festival of Traditional Cultures
The Garma Festival of Traditional Cultures (Garma) is Australia's largest Indigenous cultural gathering, taking place over four days each August in northeast Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory, Australia. Hosted by the Yothu Yindi Foundation ...
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Indigenous Australian music
Indigenous music of Australia comprises the music of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia, intersecting with their cultural and ceremonial observances, through the millennia of their individual and collective historie ...
*Survival Festival
External links
Stompen Ground (1991 documentary) at the Internet Movie Database
Indigenous Australian music
Music festivals in Australia
Organisations serving Indigenous Australians
Indigenous music festivals
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