SHANE HOWARD | Musician/band
SHANE HOWARD
Phone: +61 437 363 572
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25.01.2022 Great to see my dear Australian friend, musician and maestro, Steve Cooney, honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award for his brilliant contribution to Irish music and so much more, after moving there in 1980. All the while, he's carried a torch and a flag for Aboriginal Australia.
22.01.2022 Very happy to have come to the Crossley music gathering on Easter weekend and honoured to be able to share this moment with Shane Howard and the Friends of St B...rigid's Assoc Inc. A great tune dedicated to an inspiring young musician who passed away all too soon. The Community and the Church: https://www.stbrigidscrossley.org.au/ Inisheer: https://thesession.org/tunes/211 SHANE HOWARD - GOANNA
21.01.2022 About time these cowards, who sold their souls for a few lousy pieces of silver, were exposed and called out. Bravo Malcolm Turnbull and Kevin Rudd. Time to rise up against the destroyers of democracy. If we want to hold on to decency and Western democracy we have to be prepared to speak out against Murdoch's mendacity.
20.01.2022 This is a sorry but important story. Great investigative journalism from Allan Clarke, a Murawari man. I knew Daniel and his family. He was a remarkable dancer, full of promise. Another Aboriginal life that should never have been lost. The police and the justice system completely failed. Weep for all those Aboriginal people who lost their lives because of a state and a country that tolerated and too often accepted racism.
19.01.2022 Arnold Zable: I cannot help but pursue the story... Congratulations Arnold on this recognition, so richly deserved. A mitzvah. Thank you for dedicating your life to pursuing the story and keeping the flame of our sacred humanity alight. May your best work be yet before you.
19.01.2022 This week on The Beat Generation, Shayne Brian continues the chat with SHANE HOWARD, the man behind the musical legacy of Goanna Band. https://apple.co/38Fe8to... Of course those who fell in love with the sound of The Goanna Band also embraced the music of Shane Howard during his solo career, one that saw him dive into Irish music and uncover the similarities between Ireland and the Indigenous histories of Australia. Shane Howard - The Solo Years features the follow tracks - My Country - Dark Matter Love is a River - River Gabrielle - River Back to the Track - Back to the Track If the Well Runs Dry - River Farewell Dan & Edward Kelly - Exile (with Paul Kelly) Times Like these - Dark Matter (with John Schumann from Redgum) Borderline - Spirit of Place Walk on Fire - River #goanna #shanehoward #thegoannaband #paulkelly #johnschumann #redgum
18.01.2022 Tickets to watch Uprising online are still available. Livestream tickets are redeemable until April 11th!
18.01.2022 LIVESTREAM UPRISING TOMORROW - TIX STILL AVAILABLE - https://mailchi.mp//livestream-uprising-tomorrow-tix-still
17.01.2022 WOW!!! What a night?!? FOJAM's first live event since 2019 was a fantastic concert that equally broke your heart and made it whole again. An unforgettable exper...ience... ICYMI - Uprising: Songs Of Resistance is available via Livestream until midnight Sunday 11 April. Curated by the wonderful Siân Beatrix Darling and starring Paul Kelly Julia Stone Deborah Conway, Maria Tumarkin Arnold Zable SHANE HOWARD - GOANNA Djirri Djirri Harry James Angus Paul Grabowsky Sophia Brous Emi Lu Jess Hitchcock Ernie Gruner and Kee'ahn, Uprising: Songs of Resistance was one to remember and we don't want you to miss out. The feedback has been extraordinary. Don't say we didn't warn you. Buy tickets to watch online before midnight on Sunday 11 April at midnight. http://memotv.com.au/uprising-songs-of-resistance-fojam/
14.01.2022 Yom HaShoah 2021
12.01.2022 Warrnambool, you have spoken loud and clear about whom you wish to represent you on the council for the next four years. It is a trust that we as your represent...atives, will uphold high during our decision making. For us as people, our unity is in diversity. The wind of change that is blowing in America is also happening in Australia, here in the South West of Victoria, right here in Warrnambool. I never doubted in any single day the trust and faith that the Warrnambool people had in me, and likewise. When I came to Warrnambool seventeen years ago, it did not take any time for me to know that this is where I belong. It is where I will raise my children to be good citizens of this community. I knew that I would live my life here and be buried here when my time comes. I have come a long way, a rough journey full of agony and determination with uncompromised strong values that my dear mother installed in me while growing up. She taught me the value of respect and sharing. I still vividly remember as a kid, whenever I came home to have something to eat after a play with other kids, she would always send me back to gather the kids I played with to share the food she prepared for me. This has been my way of life since then and this what I want to see in Refugees and Migrant communities to fully integrate into the host communities and share their good values to realise true multiculturalism of Australia. Warrnambool has set an unprecedented record in Australia, if not in the whole World, to elect the first South Sudanese to be a representative on the council, the third layer of government. The gift I have received by you electing me is a gift that I plan to give back tenfold. To have received the second highest number of votes speaks volumes of how Warrnambool as a community has embraced diversity. I would like to take this opportunity to say to those who are still doubting their citizenship and sense of belonging to this country; Do not live divided between two countries, your hopes and aspirations are here, believe in this country and give it the best of your ability to serve its people. I congratulate my colleagues’ who made it to the council chamber. I am looking forward to working along side you for the benefit of the Warrnambool community. For those who couldn’t make it I would say, as saying goes, that Rome wasn’t built in a day. You have four years to work hard to gain the trust of people to be able to represent them. To everyone who supported me by hosting signs on their fences, to all of you for your kind words and cold drinks as I delivered my flyers, I thank you. Thank you Peter Collins and a special thanks to my dear friends Natalie and Sam Stevens, you have been an incredible force behind me in this election. Thank you to my family, Charity and my children Mojwok, Pwoch and Gano. Thomas Lual and beloved children, thank you for your unwavering support now and throughout the years. My tribute to the beautiful soul Regina James Bol-Obwony who passed on in February this year. I have felt you with me on this journey and feel you with all of us, guiding us. I also want to extend my thanks and gratitude to the Australian Chollo Community and Tonga Family Association of Australia for their moral support and elders, headed by Kwanyierth Jago Adongjak as well as friends and relatives across the globe. Thank you Warrnambool, my home, my dream. God bless you Otha
07.01.2022 From the ridiculous to the sublime, Brigid’s Retreat for musicians rolls into Sunday.
07.01.2022 Uprising - Songs of Resistance (FOJAM) at Memo Music Hall on the March 8th 2021 Pics by David Harris
06.01.2022 Just a little something to add as we reflect on this year's NAIDOC week. In 1998 Goanna released the single, 'Sorry', written by Marcia, from the 'Spirit Return...s' album. Marcia was inspired by the powerful documentary, Lousy Little Sixpence, that brought to light the callous and shameful chapter of Australian History now referred to as the ‘Stolen Generations’. The forerunner and catalyst for that documentary was Margaret ‘Lilardia’ Tucker’s memoir, 'If Everyone Cared'. In the late 1980's we were deeply moved by Archie Roach's song, 'Took The Children Away' and Archie's story was all the more poignant because it had happened in our own hometown and we never knew and were never told. Goanna were in the throes of making the reunion album, Spirit Returns and when Marcia played me the song, I felt it’s gravitas. Shortly afterwards, I toured Ireland and took the track with me. I worked with my friend and expatriate Australian maestro, Steve Cooney in Ceann Trá, Ventry, County Kerry. Steve laid down the stunning Bass guitar track and Liam O’Maonlai, (Hothouse Flowers), sang harmonies and added Hammond Organ. The track then travelled to another expatriate Australian, Kerryn Tolhurst,(Country Radio, The Dingoes) in New York. The talented Murri percussionist, Cameron Goold, laid down the Drums and Percussion. We performed the song at Parliament House, at the first formal Sorry Day in 1998. Dorothea Randall, the daughter of Bob Randall, the writer of the 1970 song, 'Brown Skin Baby', the first song to address the issue of the stolen children, was also present that day. Hardly anyone from the LNP made the effort to attend. A number of Labor MPs and backbenchers did. In the Senate that day, at the other end of the building, John Herron said, "The Labor Party seems to be in the crying game these days. What wimpsall of themdropping down and crying all over the place. I do not believe that is leadership. ...." It was shameful language and his absence of empathy for the importance of that day in parliament for stolen generation survivors, was felt keenly by those who had suffered under the policy. The Goanna recording coincided with the time when the Prime Minister of Australia, John Howard, refused to offer a formal apology to the Stolen Generations. That wasn’t to happen until Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made a formal Apology to the Stolen Generations in 2008.
01.01.2022 Looking forward to the first WARRNAMBOOL STORYTELLING FESTIVAL The 2021 Event Program is now available. The Festival will run from Saturday JUNE 19 Sunday JULY 4 I’ll be performing at the launch on June 20th .. Festival tickets on sale soon @lighthousetheatre
