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Jeanette is on her way to work on music projects in the APY lands and Western Desert communities of Yalata and Oak Valley for the next month. It will be her first visit to the APY Lands. She has been contracted by the Department of Education and Children’s Services to teach music and literacy to children in the pre-school and lower primary years. After that, she’ll head west to spend a week at the Yalata Anangu school before heading inland to Oak Valley for her first visit back to that community for a year. While there, she will deliver a keyboard donated to the Desert Oaks/Maralinga Desert band by sports personality, Pat Mickan.
Jeanette is looking forward to the healing and perspective offered by the desert wilderness. The drive to Oak Valley and the wide horizons have always given her a sense of peace and restoration that shows through in her music. Jeanette will have her laptop and will be uploading photos regularly to her facebook pages whenever she can get internet coverage.
Multiple Golden Guitar finalist Graham Rodger has teamed up with Jeanette Wormald to record a duet which features on his new album The Fire Within Me. Jeanette travelled to Brisbane in January to record the duet in producer, Michael Fix’s studio. The song is an Australian classic about a little lake in South Australia’s outback Carra Barra Wirra Canna. Jeanette tells that Graham rang her up and asked whether she would consider doing a duet with him. “I was honoured,” Jeanette says. “But our initial choices for a duet didn’t work out. I was in the studio listening to Graham’s new songs and was really excited by the direction he was heading. I did the vocal arrangements for him on Diamantina, and then realised that Carra Barra Wirra Canna would work really well for us. We learned it that night and recorded it the next day. I was so excited by the harmonies I got teary and Graham got goose bumps. Even Michael was excited and called Susan Jarvis in to have a listen.” The duet features on Graham’s seventh album which was launched in Queensland the first weekend in April.
One of the hit shows of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Songs of the Inland is a musical and visual journey into inland Australia through the original songs of Jeanette Wormald, incorporating words and imaginings from the Pitjantjatjara and Ngarrindjeri peoples. For the first time, her songs will be set against a backdrop of stunning imagery of South Australia by acclaimed Riverland photographer Italo Vardaro with additional Maralinga Tjarutja images by landscape photographer Andrew Weller. A must see event
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