David Arden is an Australian guitar player and singer. He has performed with Archie Roach

Archie Roach

Archie 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,...

, Ruby Hunter

Ruby Hunter

Ruby Charlotte Margaret Hunter was an Australian singer and songwriter. She was a member of the Ngarrindjeri Aboriginal nationality, and often performed with her partner, Archie Roach, whom she met at the age of 16, while both were homeless teenagers...

, Tiddas

Tiddas

Tiddas are a three piece all-girl folk band from Victoria, Australia.-Biography:Originally the three women, Amy Saunders , Lou Bennett and Sally Dastey combined their vocal talents as backing singers for Aboriginal band Djaambi, led by Saunder's brother Richard Frankland in 1990...

, Bart Willoughby

Bart Willoughby

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....

, 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...

 and with members of 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...

, Crowded House

Crowded House

Crowded House are a rock band, formed in Melbourne, Australia and led by New Zealand singer-songwriter Neil Finn. Finn is the primary songwriter and creative director of the band, having led it through several incarnations, drawing members from New Zealand , Australia and the United States...

, Not Drowning Waving and Hunters and Collectors and Weddings, Parties, Anything. He is currently a member and co Musical Director of The Black Arm Band

The Black Arm Band

The Black Arm Band is a collection of some of Australia's premier Indigeous musicians. The band, conceived by Artistic Director Steven Richardson, was brought together "to perform, promote and celebrate contempary Australian Indigenous music". Members come from all over the country and have diverse...

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Arden has released one album called Kookatha / Gunditjmara Clan which he says took 20 years to make. The album was produced by Shane Howard

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...

 and Arden and featured contributions by Howard, Amy Saunders

Tiddas

Tiddas are a three piece all-girl folk band from Victoria, Australia.-Biography:Originally the three women, Amy Saunders , Lou Bennett and Sally Dastey combined their vocal talents as backing singers for Aboriginal band Djaambi, led by Saunder's brother Richard Frankland in 1990...

, Helen Mountford, Rose Bygrave

Rose Bygrave

Rose Bygrave is an Australian singer/songwriter.-Biography:Roslyn 'Rose' Louise Bygrave grew up in Western Victoria and later attended art school in Ballarat and Melbourne. Her musical career began in 1979...

, and Bart Willoughby

Bart Willoughby

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....

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Arden has been involved in the Koori Visible project, which saw the release of an album by Tjudi, a band led by Arden.

Discography

• Kookatha / Gunditjmara Clan (2008) Goanna Arts

With Tjudi

• Bringing the Power Back (2008)

External links

• The Black Arm Band bio