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Digital Audio AlbumWalganyagarra Buru / Stephen Pigram ; performed by Stephen Pigram and Australian String Quartet.
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This is a story told through information that's been gathered through the oral narrative and the written record. It's a story about my great grandmother - we're talking in the 1880s.
Broome was already a town in 1883, but the first settlement in that area happened with the sheep farmers, see - the sheep men. Streeter had a station 50kms out of town called Streeter station, and that's where this Lake, called Lake Edarr, is. Lake Edarr that's her country, her birth country.
This is our great grandmother on Mum's side - the mother-mother-mother line for me. We got it from the old people, we know where her country is. We're trying to work out the movement of her from 50ks out of town and into Broome by 1900, 'cos that's when my Mimi, my Grandmother's born. I mention my Mimi's name in the 'Minybal' song - Petronella - that was her name. The line goes 'Petronella and Theresa bloom on the mother mother tree'. Theresa was her sister - and that's Micky Manolis Mob grandmother. [Micky Manolis is a Broome musician who played in Kuckles with Stephen Pigram, together helping write Bran Nue Dae with Jimmy Chi].
- Stephen Pigram
Recorded live at Melbourne Recital Centre as part of Quartet & Country, 17 August 2019, by ABC.
Composed by Stephen Pigram. Arranged by Iain Grandage. Lyrics by Stephen and Bart Pigram.
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