The Song Peoples Sessions is a collaboration between traditional and contemporary Australian Indigenous musicians to support the protection of intangible cultural heritage and maintenance of Indigenous languages and traditional song cycles, creating new forms of musical cultural expression.

The outcomes will include archival materials of traditional Indigenous music and commercial releases of the collaborative recordings between contemporary and traditional Indigenous musicians.

This project is first being delivered in the Barkly Region of the Northern Territory through Barkly Regional Arts and the Winanjjikari Music Centre funded by the Australian Government Maintenance of Indigenous Languages and Records Program and the Northern Territory Department of Education and Training and the McArthur River Mine Community Benefits Trust, Arts NT, the Scully Trust and the Fred Hollows Foundation.

Executive producer and project concept: Patrick McCloskey
Music producer and audio engineer: Tim Cole
Production manager: Karin Riederer
Music industry trainer: Mark Smerdon
Photographers: John Skuja, Sandy Edwards, Tim Cole, Karin Riederer, Gary Warner, Patrick McCloskey, Mark Smerdon, Benjamin Bayliss, Mike Longton, Heidi Riederer

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