A few days ago I was riding my bike round the velodrome and listening
to a podcast of an ABC "Conversation Hour". When one of the guests was
announced as a blind aboriginal singer who was too shy to speak
English because it was his fourth or fifth language but he was a good
singer, could play the guitar and had been in Yothu Yindi I wasn't
expecting much. When his whitefellow bass player and interpreter
anounced that he was going to sing a song about an orange-footed scrub
fowl, his clan's token, I was getting ready to cringe. But then I
heard his voice. Audio quality could be better, but ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VWdi3Z32sc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bawDFY8G-o4

He's from the Yolngu people where the chookie dancers who did Zorba
come from.

He's playing a right-handed guitar up-side-down because there weren't
any left-handed guitars around where he grew up.

--
Regards,
Richard.

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Ace. Too bad the morons in the audience wouldn't shut the fuck up.

On Sun, 11 May 2008, Richard Sherratt wrote:
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Ta for that, Richard - top listening! :)

JJ

muddy cat wrote:

How I agree.

I enjoyed that. Simon Cowell look no further............

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According to my spies Richard Sherratt of (Brunsley Pty Ltd) writes

On Wed, 14 May 2008 19:12:09 +0100, Mike Harrison wrote:

"Peter Ward" privacy.net> wrote in message
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I learned on a right-handed accoustic which I re-strung "the wrong way up".
Since I don't read music properly, it's still a bugger having to transpose
chord symbols, although I think that's just my problem - I might be
left-handed but I don't always "see" things left-handedly. I think I'm a
bit ambidextrous (altogether now: "Gah! I'd give my right arm to be
ambidextrous!").