Shellie Morris aboriginal singing Documentary Part 1

Aboriginal singer songwriter Shellie Morris Documentary part 1
Shellie Morris is an Australian Indigenous (aboriginal) singer. She has performed everywhere from rural outback Australia to London Festival Hall and the Sydney Opera House with great reviews.

Shellie is currently a featured aboriginal singer with the Black Arm Band. (a collaboration of Australia's top indigenous artists and jazz musicians) Her song Swept Away was orchestrated and performed in 2008 with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. A documentary film on Shellie's life and music was commissioned and broadcast nationally in 2009 as well as her concert at the Sydney Opera house with aboriginal singer Gurrumul Yunupingu.

She has released two albums to date and is currently recording the music for her third CD. In addition to this Shellie performed and co-wrote the music Liberty Songs a collaboration between refugees from Liberia and indigenous Australian women. In 2004 and 2005 Shellie was awarded the Female Musician of the Year at the N.T. Indigenous music awards. Her album Waiting Road was nominated for album of the year at the 2007 Deadly Awards (Australian aboriginal awards). In 2010 Shellie performed her song Swept Away at the opening of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver with the Black Arm Band.

Shellie works with Indigenous / Aboriginal communities and youth throughout Australia, helping young Aboriginal people to write music about their experiences. She is an ambassador for the Fred Hollows Foundation (an organisation undertaking blindness prevention in Australian aboriginal communities, Asia, Africa and the Pacific)

This year Shellie sang alongside the international music stars Sinead O'Connor, John Cale, Meshell Ndegeocello, Rickie Lee Jones and aboriginal singer Gurrumul Yunupingu for the show 7 Songs to Leave Behind. Shellie has performed at WomadUK and WomAdelaide and has shared the bill and with touring artists of the calibre of Yothu Yindi, Archie Roach, Grinspoon, Vicka and Linda Bull, You am I, Tiddas, Jimmy Little, Bluehouse, Rebecca's Empire and Magic Dirt, Chris Bailey (The Saints) Shane Howard (Goanna). Visit Shellie Morris at her official website http://www.shelliemorris.com. or see Shellie Morris' work with children in remote Australian Aboriginal communities at http://www.indigenousworkshop.com
and also Shellie's Guitar player Glen Heald at http://www.glenheald.com

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[larswallin]

We watch Message Stick every weekend during our Swedish breakfast, hej hej!

[oopsydahlia]

It's a great program, I did not realise it could be viewed overseas. That's great.