Bart Willoughby
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Bart Willoughby is an Indigenous Australian musician, noted for his pioneering fusion of reggae
with Indigenous Australian musical influences, and for his contribution to growth of Indigenous music in Australia.
A Pitjantjatjara man of the Mirning dreaming
, his totem is the whale. He grew up at Koonibba Aboriginal Mission near Ceduna
on the South Australia
n edge of the Nullarbor Plain
on the Great Australian Bight
and at 14 years of age after spending some time in a Boys' facility found his way to the Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music at the University of Adelaide
, where he was introduced to music then drumming, singing and guitar playing.
music with Indigenous Australian influences.
Willoughby formed his first band, and Australia's first Indigenous rock band, No Fixed Address
in 1978 although in 1978 and 1979 Willoughby played with Broome
composer and musician Jimmy Chi
's newly formed band Kuckles
.
In 1979 No Fixed Address played its first large concert The National Aboriginal Day held at Taperoo, South Australia
and over the years has played at numerous concerts for Aboriginal causes including Rock Against Racism
, The Artists Newsletter Association, Campaign Against Racial Exploitation and the National Aboriginal Country Music Festivals.
In 1982 Willoughby and his band toured Australia in support of Peter Tosh
and a documentary of this tour was screened by SBS TV
Peter Tosh in Concert featuring Willoughby and No Fixed Address and during 1982 Willoughby also played drums with Shane Howard
and Goanna
. After the success of the Peter Tosh tour Willoughby and his band became the first Aboriginal band to travel overseas becoming cultural ambassadors for their people while touring Great Britain playing at nine cities including London, Bristol, Leeds, Plymouth and Manchester. They played at "The Elephant Fayre" rock festival and appeared at a concert for striking miners
. A documentary of this tour No Fixed Address in London was produced and screened on SBS TV.
Returning to Australia Willoughby joined his cousin, Bunna Lawrie, and his newly formed band Coloured Stone
playing with this group in 1984 and 1985 and on its Scottish tour where they appeared with k.d. lang
at the 1986 Edinburgh Festival
then returning to Australia where the band was awarded Best Indigenous Album at the 1986 Australian Music Awards
for Human Love.
Willoughby reformed No Fixed Address in 1987 and in 1988 the band toured Europe, including Eastern Bloc
countries where Willoughby made his wry comment about "being hungry in Hungary" while appearing at the 1987 East Berlin Music Festival.
Late in 1988 Willoughby was asked to join the newly formed Yothu Yindi
as drummer on their Diesel & Dust tour, visiting 73 cities throughout the USA on what Willoughby thought was a very strenuous tour. In 1989 Willoughby left Yothu Yindi to form a new band Mixed Relations
, a band he still leads today, although at times he has reformed No Fixed Address. From its inception, Mixed Relations toured extensively throughout the Aboriginal communities, Australian cities, Pacific Islands, New Zealand and Hawaii, and Mixed Relations was chosen as the closing act for the 1989 inaugural Invasion (aka Survival) Day Concerts at La Perouse, Sydney
and then every Invasion Day concert until its final date at La Perouse in 1994.
Following work in Alice Springs, Northern Territory
and Surfers Paradise, Queensland
on the film Until the End of the World, Willoughby was invited to tour Australia with Shane Howard and The Big Heart Band before returning to his work with Mixed Relations opening the inaugural 1991 Stompen' Ground Concert in Broome, Western Australia and representing Australia at the 1990 and 1992 South Pacific Music Festival and the 1990 and 1992 Asian Music Festival. All of these festivals have been documented by ABC Television
and SBS TV and screened by these stations in the year that the festivals were held and have had repeat screenings over the years.
In 1993, International Year of Indigenous People, Willoughby and Mixed Relations were invited to attend the Los Angeles Indigenous Arts Festival, the London Indigenous Festival England and the Wanchai Music Festival, Hong Kong.
in non indigenous director Ned Lander's movie about Aboriginal musicians Wrong Side of the Road
. This film was a semi biographical drama concerning the racism levelled against Aboriginal musicians trying to get gigs in country pubs and won the Australian Film Commission funded Australian Film Institute's (AFI) 1981 Jury Award for its director Lander.
After his 1988 European tour Willoughby directed, composed and recorded the music track using his band for Always Was - Always Will Be, produced, directed and written by Indigenous filmmaker Madelaine McGrady and screened on SBS TV in the same year.
In 1989 "Into the Mainstream" (1989) directed by Ned Lander and covering the 1988 Yothu Yindi Diesel & Dust Tour screened on SBS-TV and also screened internationally through its distributor Ronin Films.
In 1990 Willoughby was cast as "Ned the Computer Expert" in German director Wim Wenders
' Until the End of the World
starring William Hurt
, Sam Neill
and Indigenous actor Ernie Dingo
as well as Aboriginal icons actor David Gulpilil
and Aboriginal Australia's first gold record singer and Yorta Yorta elder, Jimmy Little
.
In 1992 Willoughby was invited by Australia's first Indigenous feature film director Brian Syron
to become the first Aboriginal to compose, play and direct the music track of a feature film Jindalee Lady. The film was invited to the International First Nations Art and Film Festival, "Dreamspeakers", in Edmonton, Canada in 1992 where it was acknowledge as the first feature film to be directed by a First Nation's director, Syron, and to have a music track composed and directed by a First Nations composer, Willoughby.
Following this festival both Syron and Willoughby were invited to attend the 1992 Hawaii International Film Festival
where Jindalee Lady was nominated for the East West Award - Best Feature Film and in 1993 Jindalee Lady was then invited to screen at the Tinker Theatre, Woodstock, New York as part of the Woodstock Tribute to the International Year of Indigenous People.
In 1994 Willoughby with his eldest son Woonun Willoughby appeared in the docudrama "La Perouse" for the Museum of Sydney & Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales directed by Michael Riley
and narrated by Justine Saunders AM
Willoughby has made many appearances on ABC Television, Channel 9, SBS TV, Channel 10 and Channel 7.
School, Yalata, South Australia where he taught drums, guitar and songwriting.
and screened on Channel 10. Sol Bellear, Commissioner of the Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC - Acting) in presenting the award to Willoughby said :
In 1997 Willoughby was selected and represented at Nygaramang Bayumi an exhibition about Indigenous Australian music and Dance at the Powerhouse Museum, Darling Harbour, Sydney.
He was nominated for 1998 APRA (Australian Performing Rights Association) Best Indigenous Album for "Pathways"
In 2004, 2005, 2006 he was nominated for the Jimmy Little Lifetime Achievement Award at the Indigenous Deadly's for his contribution to Indigenous music in Australia. Bart Willoughby is regarded as one of Australia's leading Aboriginal rock composers and performers and is widely known, loved and respected by Aboriginals for his work which includes Aboriginal classics such as "We Have Survived
", "Aboriginal Woman" and "My Father is an Aboriginal Man".
Reggae
Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...
with Indigenous Australian musical influences, and for his contribution to growth of Indigenous music in Australia.
A Pitjantjatjara man of the Mirning dreaming
Mirning
The Mirning people are a group of Indigenous Australians whose traditional lands lie in the coastal region of the Great Australian Bight in the south-west of South Australia and bordering Western Australia.-People and Culture:...
, his totem is the whale. He grew up at Koonibba Aboriginal Mission near Ceduna
Ceduna, South Australia
Ceduna is a small town in the West Coast region of South Australia. It is situated in the northwest corner of Eyre Peninsula, facing the islands of the Nuyts Archipelago. It lies west of the junction of the Flinders and Eyre Highways around 786 km northwest of the capital Adelaide. The port...
on the South Australia
South Australia
South Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of , it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories.South Australia shares borders with all of the mainland...
n edge of the Nullarbor Plain
Nullarbor Plain
The Nullarbor Plain is part of the area of flat, almost treeless, arid or semi-arid country of southern Australia, located on the Great Australian Bight coast with the Great Victoria Desert to its north. It is the world's largest single piece of limestone, and occupies an area of about...
on the Great Australian Bight
Great Australian Bight
The Great Australian Bight is a large bight, or open bay, off the central and western portions of the southern coastline of mainland Australia.-Extent:...
and at 14 years of age after spending some time in a Boys' facility found his way to the Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music at the University of Adelaide
University of Adelaide
The University of Adelaide is a public university located in Adelaide, South Australia. Established in 1874, it is the third oldest university in Australia...
, where he was introduced to music then drumming, singing and guitar playing.
Bands
Willoughby's musical career commenced in 1978 and in this period he developed as a distinctive Indigenous Australian musician notable for his pioneering fusion of reggaeReggae
Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...
music with Indigenous Australian influences.
Willoughby formed his first band, and Australia's first Indigenous rock band, No Fixed Address
No Fixed Address
No Fixed Address is an Australian Aboriginal reggae group formed in 1978. Led by Bart Willoughby, the band supported Peter Tosh on his 1982 Australian tour...
in 1978 although in 1978 and 1979 Willoughby played with Broome
Broome, Western Australia
Broome is a pearling and tourist town in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, north of Perth. The year round population is approximately 14,436, growing to more than 45,000 per month during the tourist season...
composer and musician Jimmy Chi
Jimmy Chi
Jimmy Chi was born in 1948 in Broome, Western Australia, to a Chinese/Japanese/Anglo-Australian father and a Scots/Bardi Aboriginal mother. He is a composer, musician and playwright.- Biography :...
's newly formed band Kuckles
Kuckles
Kuckles is an Australian band. They formed in 1981 by students from Broome, Western Australia studying at the Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music in Adelaide. Their music moved from acoustic calypso toward an electric reggae/rock style...
.
In 1979 No Fixed Address played its first large concert The National Aboriginal Day held at Taperoo, South Australia
Taperoo, South Australia
Taperoo is a north-western suburb of Adelaide 18km from the CBD, on the LeFevre Peninsula in the state of South Australia, Australia and falls under the City of Port Adelaide Enfield. It is adjacent to Osborne and Largs North...
and over the years has played at numerous concerts for Aboriginal causes including Rock Against Racism
Rock Against Racism
Rock Against Racism was a campaign set up in the United Kingdom in 1976 as a response to an increase in racial conflict and the growth of white nationalist groups such as the National Front. The campaign involved pop, rock and reggae musicians staging concerts with an anti-racist theme, in order...
, The Artists Newsletter Association, Campaign Against Racial Exploitation and the National Aboriginal Country Music Festivals.
In 1982 Willoughby and his band toured Australia in support of Peter Tosh
Peter Tosh
Peter Tosh, born Winston Hubert McIntosh , was a Jamaican reggae musician who was a core member of the band The Wailers , and who afterward had a successful solo career as well as being a promoter of Rastafari.Peter Tosh was born in Grange Hill, Jamaica, an illegitimate child to a mother too young...
and a documentary of this tour was screened by SBS TV
SBS TV
SBS One is a national public television channel in Australia. Launched on 24 October 1980, it is the responsibility of SBS's television division, and is available nationally...
Peter Tosh in Concert featuring Willoughby and No Fixed Address and during 1982 Willoughby also played drums with Shane Howard
Shane Howard
Shane Michael Howard is an Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist, he was the mainstay of folk rock group Goanna which had hits with "Solid Rock" and "Let the Franklin Flow". After their disbandment in 1985 he pursued a solo career....
and Goanna
Goanna (band)
Goanna is an Australian folk rock group which formed in 1977 in Geelong as The Goanna Band with mainstay Shane Howard as singer-songwriter and guitarist...
. After the success of the Peter Tosh tour Willoughby and his band became the first Aboriginal band to travel overseas becoming cultural ambassadors for their people while touring Great Britain playing at nine cities including London, Bristol, Leeds, Plymouth and Manchester. They played at "The Elephant Fayre" rock festival and appeared at a concert for striking miners
UK miners' strike (1984–1985)
The UK miners' strike was a major industrial action affecting the British coal industry. It was a defining moment in British industrial relations, and its defeat significantly weakened the British trades union movement...
. A documentary of this tour No Fixed Address in London was produced and screened on SBS TV.
Returning to Australia Willoughby joined his cousin, Bunna Lawrie, and his newly formed band Coloured Stone
Coloured Stone
Coloured Stone is a band from the Koonibba Mission, west of Ceduna, South Australia. Their sound has been described as having a unique feel and Aboriginal qualities...
playing with this group in 1984 and 1985 and on its Scottish tour where they appeared with k.d. lang
K.D. Lang
Kathryn Dawn Lang, OC , known by her stage name k.d. lang, is a Canadian pop and country singer-songwriter and occasional actress...
at the 1986 Edinburgh Festival
Edinburgh Festival
The Edinburgh Festival is a collective term for many arts and cultural festivals that take place in Edinburgh, Scotland each summer, mostly in August...
then returning to Australia where the band was awarded Best Indigenous Album at the 1986 Australian Music Awards
ARIA Music Awards
The Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards is an annual series of awards nights celebrating the Australian music industry, put on by the Australian Recording Industry Association...
for Human Love.
Willoughby reformed No Fixed Address in 1987 and in 1988 the band toured Europe, including Eastern Bloc
Eastern bloc
The term Eastern Bloc or Communist Bloc refers to the former communist states of Eastern and Central Europe, generally the Soviet Union and the countries of the Warsaw Pact...
countries where Willoughby made his wry comment about "being hungry in Hungary" while appearing at the 1987 East Berlin Music Festival.
Late in 1988 Willoughby was asked to join the newly formed Yothu Yindi
Yothu Yindi
Yothu Yindi are an Australian band with Aboriginal and balanda members formed in 1986. Aboriginal members come from Yolngu homelands near Yirrkala on the Gove Peninsula in Northern Territory's Arnhem Land...
as drummer on their Diesel & Dust tour, visiting 73 cities throughout the USA on what Willoughby thought was a very strenuous tour. In 1989 Willoughby left Yothu Yindi to form a new band Mixed Relations
Mixed Relations
Mixed Relations are an Australian band formed by Bart Willoughby. They play a mixture of reggae, pop, rock and jazz.Mixed Relations have toured extensively throughout the Aboriginal communities, Australian cities, Pacific Islands, New Zealand, USA, Europe and Hong Kong...
, a band he still leads today, although at times he has reformed No Fixed Address. From its inception, Mixed Relations toured extensively throughout the Aboriginal communities, Australian cities, Pacific Islands, New Zealand and Hawaii, and Mixed Relations was chosen as the closing act for the 1989 inaugural Invasion (aka Survival) Day Concerts at La Perouse, Sydney
La Perouse, New South Wales
Lapérouse is a suburb in south-eastern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The suburb of Lapérouse is located about 14 kilometres south-east of the Sydney central business district, in the City of Randwick....
and then every Invasion Day concert until its final date at La Perouse in 1994.
Following work in Alice Springs, Northern Territory
Northern Territory
The Northern Territory is a federal territory of Australia, occupying much of the centre of the mainland continent, as well as the central northern regions...
and Surfers Paradise, Queensland
Queensland
Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...
on the film Until the End of the World, Willoughby was invited to tour Australia with Shane Howard and The Big Heart Band before returning to his work with Mixed Relations opening the inaugural 1991 Stompen' Ground Concert in Broome, Western Australia and representing Australia at the 1990 and 1992 South Pacific Music Festival and the 1990 and 1992 Asian Music Festival. All of these festivals have been documented by ABC Television
ABC Television
ABC Television is a service of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation launched in 1956. As a public broadcasting broadcaster, the ABC provides four non-commercial channels within Australia, and a partially advertising-funded satellite channel overseas....
and SBS TV and screened by these stations in the year that the festivals were held and have had repeat screenings over the years.
In 1993, International Year of Indigenous People, Willoughby and Mixed Relations were invited to attend the Los Angeles Indigenous Arts Festival, the London Indigenous Festival England and the Wanchai Music Festival, Hong Kong.
Film and Television
In 1980 Willoughby starred with another indigenous band Us MobUs Mob
Us Mob were an early Aboriginal rock band from South Australia. The band was formed with the help of the Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music in Adelaide.- Overview :...
in non indigenous director Ned Lander's movie about Aboriginal musicians Wrong Side of the Road
Wrong Side of the Road
Wrong Side of the Road is a 1981 low-budget documentary film made in South Australia in 1980. It is distinctive for being one of the first attempts to bring modern Australian Aboriginal music to a non-indigenous audience....
. This film was a semi biographical drama concerning the racism levelled against Aboriginal musicians trying to get gigs in country pubs and won the Australian Film Commission funded Australian Film Institute's (AFI) 1981 Jury Award for its director Lander.
After his 1988 European tour Willoughby directed, composed and recorded the music track using his band for Always Was - Always Will Be, produced, directed and written by Indigenous filmmaker Madelaine McGrady and screened on SBS TV in the same year.
In 1989 "Into the Mainstream" (1989) directed by Ned Lander and covering the 1988 Yothu Yindi Diesel & Dust Tour screened on SBS-TV and also screened internationally through its distributor Ronin Films.
In 1990 Willoughby was cast as "Ned the Computer Expert" in German director Wim Wenders
Wim Wenders
Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders is a German film director, playwright, author, photographer and producer.-Early life:Wenders was born in Düsseldorf. He graduated from high school in Oberhausen in the Ruhr area. He then studied medicine and philosophy in Freiburg and Düsseldorf...
' Until the End of the World
Until the End of the World
Until the End of the World is a 1991 film by the German film director Wim Wenders; the screenplay was written by Wenders and Peter Carey, from a story by Wenders and Solveig Dommartin. An initial draft of the screenplay was written by American filmmaker Michael Almereyda...
starring William Hurt
William Hurt
William McGill Hurt is an American stage and film actor. He received his acting training at the Juilliard School, and began acting on stage in the 1970s. Hurt made his film debut as a troubled scientist in the science-fiction feature Altered States , for which he received a Golden Globe nomination...
, Sam Neill
Sam Neill
Nigel John Dermot "Sam" Neill, DCNZM, OBE is a New Zealand actor. He is well known for his starring role as paleontologist Dr Alan Grant in Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park III....
and Indigenous actor Ernie Dingo
Ernie Dingo
Ernie Dingo AM is an Indigenous Australian actor and television presenter originating from the Yamatji people of the Murchison region of Western Australia.-Background:...
as well as Aboriginal icons actor David Gulpilil
David Gulpilil
David Gulpilil Ridjimiraril Dalaithngu , is an Indigenous Australian traditional dancer and actor. His first starring role was Walkabout....
and Aboriginal Australia's first gold record singer and Yorta Yorta elder, Jimmy Little
Jimmy Little
Jimmy Little AO , is an Australian Aboriginal musician, singer, songwriter and guitarist, whose career has spanned six decades. For many years he was the only Aboriginal star on the Australian music scene...
.
In 1992 Willoughby was invited by Australia's first Indigenous feature film director Brian Syron
Brian Syron
Brian Syron was a human rights advocate, teacher, actor, writer, stage director and Australia's first Indigenous feature film director who has been recognised as the first First Nations feature film director.-Life:...
to become the first Aboriginal to compose, play and direct the music track of a feature film Jindalee Lady. The film was invited to the International First Nations Art and Film Festival, "Dreamspeakers", in Edmonton, Canada in 1992 where it was acknowledge as the first feature film to be directed by a First Nation's director, Syron, and to have a music track composed and directed by a First Nations composer, Willoughby.
Following this festival both Syron and Willoughby were invited to attend the 1992 Hawaii International Film Festival
Hawaii International Film Festival
The Hawaii International Film Festival is a film festival held in the U.S. state of Hawaii. It was started in 1981 by Jeannette Paulson Hereniko and has been held annually in the fall for two weeks...
where Jindalee Lady was nominated for the East West Award - Best Feature Film and in 1993 Jindalee Lady was then invited to screen at the Tinker Theatre, Woodstock, New York as part of the Woodstock Tribute to the International Year of Indigenous People.
In 1994 Willoughby with his eldest son Woonun Willoughby appeared in the docudrama "La Perouse" for the Museum of Sydney & Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales directed by Michael Riley
Michael Riley
Michael Riley is a Canadian actor and graduate of the National Theatre School in Montreal, Canada in 1984. Riley's first appearance was in the film No Man's Land...
and narrated by Justine Saunders AM
Willoughby has made many appearances on ABC Television, Channel 9, SBS TV, Channel 10 and Channel 7.
Teaching
During 1995 Willoughby took time out to work with his Pitjantjantjara community as Music Instructor to secondary school students at Yalata AnanguAnangu
Anangu, more accurately "Aṉaŋu" or "Arnangu" is a word found in a number of eastern varieties of the Western Desert Language , an Australian Aboriginal language of the Pama–Nyungan family, spoken in the desert regions of western and central Australia. Before the arrival of non-Aboriginal people in...
School, Yalata, South Australia where he taught drums, guitar and songwriting.
Awards
Willoughby received the 1993 Inaugural Indigenous ARIA Australian Music Lifetime Achievement Award for his Outstanding Contribution to Indigenous Music in Australia. The award was presented by Will SmithWill Smith
Willard Christopher "Will" Smith, Jr. , also known by his stage name The Fresh Prince, is an American actor, producer, and rapper. He has enjoyed success in television, film and music. In April 2007, Newsweek called him the most powerful actor in Hollywood...
and screened on Channel 10. Sol Bellear, Commissioner of the Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC - Acting) in presenting the award to Willoughby said :
"Indigenous music has certainly come a long way in recent times. From 10 years ago out back of Australia, in outback hotels to internationally through Yothu Yindi, through Kev Carmody, through Archie RoachArchie RoachArchie Roach is an Australian musician. A singer, songwriter and guitarist, he survived a turbulent upbringing to develop into a powerful voice for Indigenous Australians, a storyteller in the tradition of his ancestors, and a nationally popular and respected artist.- Biography :In his own words,...
and many, many more. Let me tll you that the recipient of this very first Indigenous trophy has stood out clearly as an innovator for those people. He notched up a list of firsts that paved the way for a lot of Indigenous artists. He was the first to perform on Countdown, his was the first Aboriginal band to make a documentary, the first Aboriginal band to sign a record deal and the first, the very first, to tour overseas and Willoughby was the first, the very first to score, play and direct the music track of a feature film itself the first to be directed by an indigenous director. Bart's contribution to Aboriginal music in Australia is prodigious in book, film and record." Bellear, Channel 10,
In 1997 Willoughby was selected and represented at Nygaramang Bayumi an exhibition about Indigenous Australian music and Dance at the Powerhouse Museum, Darling Harbour, Sydney.
He was nominated for 1998 APRA (Australian Performing Rights Association) Best Indigenous Album for "Pathways"
In 2004, 2005, 2006 he was nominated for the Jimmy Little Lifetime Achievement Award at the Indigenous Deadly's for his contribution to Indigenous music in Australia. Bart Willoughby is regarded as one of Australia's leading Aboriginal rock composers and performers and is widely known, loved and respected by Aboriginals for his work which includes Aboriginal classics such as "We Have Survived
We Have Survived
"We Have Survived" is a song originally performed by No Fixed Address. It was composed by Bart Willoughby when he was 18. It first appear in the film Wrong Side of the Road and on its soundtrack and was later included on No Fixed Address's album From My Eyes...
", "Aboriginal Woman" and "My Father is an Aboriginal Man".
Won
- 1986 Australian Music Award for Best Indigenous Album - Coloured Stone - "Human Love".
- 1993 Indigenous ARIA Australian Music Award Bart Willoughby for Outstanding Contribution to Indigenous Music in Australia.
Nominated
- 1998 APRA (Australian Performing Rights Association) Best Indigenous Album for "Pathways".
- 2004, 2005, 2006The Deadly's - Jimmy Little Lifetime Achievement Award for Willoughby's contribution to Indigenous music in Australia.
Film Sound Tracks
- Special Treatment - Locking up Aboriginal Children, Dir. Margaret Smith, Music Bart Willoughby - documentary
- Always Was, Always Will Be, Producer Australian Broadcasting Commission ABC-TV, Music Bart Willoughby - documentary
- 'Jindalee Lady(1992) Dir. Brian Syron, Music Bart Willoughby - feature film
Records / Cassettes / CDs
- Wrong Side of the RoadWrong Side of the RoadWrong Side of the Road is a 1981 low-budget documentary film made in South Australia in 1980. It is distinctive for being one of the first attempts to bring modern Australian Aboriginal music to a non-indigenous audience....
, film sound track, EMI - Rock Against Racism, Vol. 1, Sound track from concert - ABC Records
- National Aboriginal Music Festival, Sound Track from concert - ABC Records
- Stompem' Ground ABC Records
- From My Eyes EMI
- Take It or Leave It, Polygram
- Aboriginal Woman. Polygram
- LoveLoveLove is an emotion of strong affection and personal attachment. In philosophical context, love is a virtue representing all of human kindness, compassion, and affection. Love is central to many religions, as in the Christian phrase, "God is love" or Agape in the Canonical gospels...
', Polygram - Jindalee Lady, Donobri International
- Pathways Polygram
External links
- VIBE Australia biography
- Bart Willoughby's blog
- IMDB listing
- Media Ethics, An Aboriginal Film and the Australian Film Commission, Thomas G. Donovan / Brody T. Lorraine, ISBN 0-696-25266-4
- Kicking Down the Doors, A History of Indigenous Filmmakers from 1968–1993, Brian Syron / briann kearney, ISBN 0-646-26594-6
- Our Place, Our Music, ed. Marcus Breen, ISBN 0-85575-197-5