Elijah Gunydjurruwuy playing yirdaki in 2008

[ccoastie]

Fabulous jamming. A close up of the singer would have been great

[robgoldthorpe]

A pure explosion of energy and class,love to see that the younger generations are keeping the proud heritage strong in their hearts and minds. Great vid...

[ididjaustralia]

@robgoldthorpe :)

[eskasant]

awesome...

[dearodear]

New blood, keeping traditions... keep going!

[minzhide]

@Ozscii That's the other guy singing.

[Alejandroenfuego]

I love that abo youth are contributing to the preservation of their culture.

[EhnaRivekan]

He's great! Bless him!

[tadpole329]

just fantastic.....nothing more to say...:)

[nonip83]

@ididjaustralia can you please remove the disgusting comments from boxchamp4114

[ididjaustralia]

@nonip83 done!

[xxbraindeathxx]

@ididjaustralia this is a fantastic video, I'm interested in what he sings, can you please translate it

[ididjaustralia]

@xxbraindeathxx post your question in the iDIDJ Forum, easier there.

[Cre8iveSignWorks]

fantastic singing and dancing as well as some brilliant didge playing.

you guys are so cool....and a credit to your people for keeping the tradition alive and well!

cheers from perth, wa.

[nubihotep]

That's wassup! My Aboriginal Australian brothers still holdin' it down! Beautiful I could have thought that theses were some brothers at Coney Island if I didn't hear them singing in another language.

[bonnita1010]

how neat. i never seem that kind of thing before. and it cool to see kids my own age doing something like that.

[dariofor]

Hilight Tribe in Boom 06 - 2

[bazzarx7]

Mad dig, mad dance.

[BossyDemi]

I love this video, it's my favourite so far! Where in Australia was this filmed?

[ididjaustralia]

@BossyDemi Elijah is from Gapuwiyak community in the NT.

[BossyDemi]

@ididjaustralia Very cool, thanks :) The setting is amazing where they are, it looks unreal :) It helps to make this video so appealing.

[acidfriend47]

how many different names is there for this instrument?

isn';t it Didgeridoo, or Didjeridoo? or is yirdaki a different language

[ididjaustralia]

@acidfriend47 lots of different names, didgeridoo or didjeridoo or however you want to spell it is of European origin. Yirdaki or yidaki is one of the Indigenous names for the instrument.

[mlcoo17]

Absolutely wonderful, on so many levels. The ancient and the new, the solemn and the funky. We are all brothers and sisters in music.

[Cre8iveSignWorks]

awesome stuff!

its so good to see the young ones embracing the culture and having so much ''fun'' at the same time!

[SEBASTIENBLEU]

i want more videos please this is great shit!!!!!

[wititj53]

Thanks for this. Really good to see a clip with Yidaki in context with song, bilma and dancing. Not much on youtube like this. Also good to see young fellas mixing it up - doing culture and having fun with it.

John

[YourTearsDontFall606]

where do you get a didge like that from. Straight, light-ish and good wood

[galanx1]

A pesar de sus vestimentas oxidentalizadas como el gorro de los yankies. siguen su cultura con entusiasmo.sigan asi!!

[jazzflutist]

Interesting moves, and rhythms.

[zewu2]

Do you know if it's possible to visit the aboriginals of Arnhem Land? Does one need a permit to go there? Tiwi islands?

[Dewyoudidj]

Dapirrik! This video is one of my favorites out of all the ones that you have Guan.

Would love to meet Elijah next time in in Aus.

How much more yidaki playing/manikay singing outside of ceremony is there in Gapuwiyak compared to Yirrkala, Elcho, and Ramingining?

Cheers,

~Simon

[ididjaustralia]

Glad you like it Simon! Talking about Elijah, I'm thinking of a workshop/masterclass with him around mid-year and spoke to someone else about it. Are you coming to Australia this year and would you be interested?

Ramingining doesn't have the profile or the talent for yidaki as in the other communities you mentioned, though manikay is strong there. Gapuwiyak has many competent yidaki players and manikay singers.

[aware4444]

This kind of recordings always remind how much fun it is to play the didge. Bless you

[frodnew1]

What a fun time! I'm so glad this was caught on tape. Thank you for posting!

It's the shizzle and the shiznit!

[grhysman]

this is the shizzle

[m6exec]

Good onya fella's, we need more of this from you young bloke's, keep the dream and spirit's alive..

This is the real stuff here people's not the south of the border crap we hear to often...

[nowhere8]

awesome vid

[clarinetcat]

Fantastic video, you captured a very energetic and natural performance!

[beladong]

fantastic

[redmalli]

I really like this - preserve your great culture for the future boys...

[MrDicVindive]

this is exactly who i need to hook up with musically

vindictive-apparel

[pollywarrior]

Awesome.

[BlueEarthRising]

FREAKING UNBELIEVABLE.

[Ayatollah89]

I absolutely love this. Aboriginal youth that are wearing Westerner's clothing, yet are still embracing the dancing of their culture.

[Onesize17]

Awesome energy! Absolutely addictive! Keep it up guys!

[MCJustiz]

Wicked!

Just bought a yirdaki a few days ago and have started playin it pretty well already, i;ve always been fascinated by it.

And the racists can shut the fuck up, these are the true australians, ur in a blackmans land, if you dont like em kindly fuck off to wherever it is ur ancestors came from!

White Australians and their laws on immigrants and foreign policies, lol, the biggest fuckin joke on earth seeing as u are the foreigners or generation of immigrants!

[didgeridenis]

I can't stop hearing this... They are really enjoying, and so do I. David and Elijah, keep rocking like that!

I want a yidaki like that, Guan...

[AZpomegranate]

wow, I really enjoyed that. I've never seen anything like this before in my life, young indigenous Australians in Hip hop clothes playing traditional music

Thanks for sharing, you captured a beautiful moment.

[Goldymere]

Cool!!

[liquidraynebow]

G'day ididjaustralia,

I really love all the videos of Elijah Gunydjurruwuy, he is so very talented. Thank you very much for posting this video. Can u please tell me about this song? the meaning etc

Thank you again :)

[ididjaustralia]

One song is about bush yams.

[Dewyoudidj]

Amazing video Guan! Thanks so much for posting!

Honestly, this video reminds me of a dream I had recently...

That Manikaymirr truly has spirit in his voice.

Seems like a fun time with these dudes.

[timmay000]

suweet! thanks for the post.

[skizz0id]

I really like the sequence starting at 2:45

[jjaappaa72]

I just want to say thanks for posting this. It is great to see Aboriginal culture thriving in song, dance and language. I was very happy to see these young blokes interested in continuing Australian culture and doing it with such obvious skill and dedication. I look forward to the next generation keeping the traditions alive and passing down the knowledge from those before them.

[Wolflord994ever]

i never knew you could do that with astrailian insturments

[dvdlucena]

Bakaba!!! what a player!

[SpiritualTV]

I will never tire from watching these Lads I adore this clip...FABULOUS

[munkmastaflex]

Wow!!! what a great clip!

To bad this thread was poisoned by racism and negativity...

[APNJ]

this shit is wierd im american and i have no idea what he is doing ....but i will say he does look like he will soon master his craft. his stamina and playing style is interesting

[Inkawgneegrow]

no one cares where u're from u ethnocentric fuck...

[didjeridu100]

Beautiful!!!

Great atmosphere.

[Hansson62]

technically simply superior. Thanks for frustrating all of us "Didg players".

[CCPenny1982]

Too Good!!

[SpiritualTV]

stars in the making i feel

[ningali]

hes a fantastic player and he has heaps talent!! hes pretty handsome too ;)

[spliffsstudio]

GREAT VIDEO!  YOU MAKE me proud!

[lukicsvetolik]

cha cha cha gre go cha cha cha gre go

[sickshaman]

Whoever had any doubts about his playing was a novice....he is a young master!!! Incredible, thank you! I want to go find them!.....

[yidakishop]

He is a perfect Player, wonderful.

And i like this Style of Dancing :-)

Klaus

[ClassicAussieMusic]

i wonder who he stole that hat from?

[seany353]

fuck off you racist shit

[wiradjuri84]

u wite dog, fuck your anzacs, im happy they died, dig em up n fuck em off n england were u belong. i want u 2 work so u can giv us free money all day, u work 4 us now, u r the new age slave u white mutt, go home 2 england n fuck the queen u wite shit, i bash your kind 4 fun, we rob u all day then u giv us free money, get 2 work wite dog

[ClassicAussieMusic]

wow i told everyone you stupid fucking uneducated dole bludging theifing cunts were racist on top of that

how about you say that in the rsl or on anzac day

I personally would kick your fucking ass how about we go back to england and take everything every building, everything made by whites such as housing,plumbing etc and you go back to living in trees you fucking monkey

we should take everything back to england including petrol then you'd be fucked

[Inkawgneegrow]

yea but blacks gave us peanut butter... did u know that george washington carver made the first lightbulb well before edison out of a peanut???? A PEANUT!!!! stick that in ur pipe and smoke it... (if u took me seriously u're dumb...)

[climamarty]

nice beats, if i could play half as good as that id be happy.

[mralhdad]

hhhhhhhh wht the Fuck ..lol

[ryzie7]

rofl.. nice voice.. der laz!! das aright ay bra gis a bong!

[islandwarrior16]

i played the didgeridoo in front of these japanese tourist who came to my high school, even though the didg id not my thing and i only had one hour to practice playing it for the first time they loved it anywayz

[kantoklui]

all ur tax money... hahaha... u took all our money! ever heard of stolen wages?

and our culture robs urs? how exactly? please explain, i don't know wat ur on about.

make u feel like shit.. make YOU feel like shit? wow.. try walking a day in my shoes mate.

[kellargrg12]

it seems like everyother country but America has culture! Australia's dot art, didgeridoos and boomerangs. Arabia's turbans. England's fancy whatever. But what does america have??? Gangsters and pimps.

[iceborn21]

That was absolutely brilliant. I myself am Australian and I found that moving, it brought a smile to me. Those young men are wonderful.

[SpiritualTV]

wow this is one of my fav clips, what a bunch of fab characters,do the doo proud lads

[purelight28]

LOL those guys look like NY city rapers

but they do a great job both in the playing&dancing :)

[AnticDispossession]

Ha ha, I'm from NY and I've never seen anything like this.

I love it. That guy's rockin it.

[furrytummy]

Cool.

[ilariokov]

Great !

NEAL/HipHop !?

I love this strange stuff !

[bboy2ezy]

Practicing in the hot sun, playing yadaki, singing and dancing (to the beat!) is one of the most capturing performance's I've ever seen and displayed a "superb human achievement" to even be able to be out there (in the sun)let alone perform like that!

[tripnball]

i have to put this in there right here and now.

i declair the didgeridoo is the best instrament ever!! most captivating music i listen to. 5 stars for the post. thanks!

[kantoklui]

fuck at least they've got heart and culture.. something i see u don't.

thanks you and fuck off

[AlexRawlings]

I love Elijah's style of playing

[BLEURfangers]

I'm so glad these wonderful videos are on You Tube -- so important. The young (cool) men embracing traditional music and dance and enjoying themselves is a pleasure to see. Thank you so much!

Cheers,

[ididjaustralia]

Glad you enjoy the vids, cheers bud!

[sonofthedestroyer]

Guan you have to slow down. This is a yirdaki tsunami. I am drowning! Help!

[ididjaustralia]

Well, there was a yirdaki drought for 3 months when I didn't upload anything, hope this makes up for it :-)

And of course, plenty more to come!

[plaodidge]

yay!!! new vids!! thankyou guan!!

alwasy impresive footage and great sound recording ,hope to get there some day! anf hope the july gathering with Djalu was great!

salud, plao

[ididjaustralia]

Hi Plao, Djalu's Masterclass went great, sorry you did not come this time but maybe next year?

[ozmadman]

Yes looks well used and no tape?????love this stuff, nice to see youngsters doing some traditional song and dance.

[ididjaustralia]

Love the shoes too, and Birmangawuy dancing in socks! If you listen closely, you'll hear Elijah fussing over his shoes, he didn't want any sand on them!!

[sirzuke]

That yidaki has gotten around! Great video showing modern-youth culture too!

[ididjaustralia]

It was the most frequently-used yirdaki in the several months I woz in the Top End... used at Djalu's Masterclass, in funeral ceremonies, for recreational playing etc.