Member of Crossing Roper Bar, Benjamin Wilfred.
A groundbreaking project bringing The Australian Art Orchestra (AAO) together with Indigenous performers from Arnhem Land is the recipient of the 2010 HC Coombs Creative Arts Fellowship at The Australian National University. The Fellowship, awarded each year by the Research School of Humanities at ANU, aims to encourage creative arts in Australia through a residency at the University. As this year's recipients, AAO ' led by renowned jazz artist Paul Grabowsky - will bring their collaborative Crossing Roper Bar project to ANU with a series of workshops and a concert at the ANU School of Music on September 22. Crossing Roper Bar is a collaborative project between the AAO and the Young Wagilak Group of the Wagilak people from Ngukurr in south east Arnhem Land. It began in 2005 with a series of workshops and has since evolved into an ongoing collaboration of the contemporary jazz of AAO with the traditional song and dance of the Young Wagilak Group. Head of the ANU School of Music Professor Adrian Walter said he was pleased to see the Fellowship go to this innovative project. ?I have long been an admirer of the work of Paul Grabowsky having got to know him in the 'Top End' as a great supporter of Indigenous musicians and Indigenous education,? said Professor Walter.
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