Kev Carmody
Musician
Missy Higgins...April 2007. On 7 July 2007, Higgins participated in the Australian leg of Live Earth performing her own set, as well as joining Paul Kelly , Kev Carmody and John Butler on stage for the song "From Little Things Big Things Grow." The song... In this article: Missy Higgins, The Sound of White, Breast cancer, On a Clear Night, Cancer, The Special Two, Paul Kelly, United States, and The Sound of White |
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Wikipedia | November 02, 2009
John Butler (musician)
...Festival. Butler performed alongside a number of other local musicians (including Paul Kelly , Missy Higgins, Troy Cassar-Daley, Clare Bowditch, Tex Perkins and Bernard Fanning) reinterpreting the catalogue of Kev Carmody. Butler then...
In this article: John Butler, The John Butler Trio, Grand National, John Butler, Sunrise Over Sea, Curtin University, Paul Kelly, and Jarrah Records
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The Australian | August 27, 2009
JPY enters ARIA hall of fame
...since 1988. Queensland's Kev Carmody was joined by his friend Paul Kelly to perform the famous song they wrote together, From Little Things Big Things Grow, and then an all-star cast including John Butler and Missy Higgins. Melbourne's...
In this article: John Paul Young, ARIA, Sydney, Chrissy Amphlett, Melbourne, From Little Things Big Things Grow, Paul Kelly, and Lisa Mitchell
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Talented interpreters in Joni's place
...Hall concert, and Cannot Buy My Soul at last year's Sydney Festival, a homage to the music of Kev Carmody, performed by, among others, Paul Kelly, Missy Higgins, John Butler, Tex Perkins and Clare Bowditch). Sheehy says the tribute is a...
In this article: Joni Mitchell, Katie Noonan, Hal Willner, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Grammys, and Bob Dylan
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Tim Levinson
...on 10 December 1992. The song featured Urthboy, Carmody and Kelly, as well as other prominent Australian artists (including Missy Higgins, Mia Dyson, Radical Son, Jane Tyrrell , Dan Sultan, Joel Wenitong and Ozi Batla). It peaked at #4 on the...
In this article: Tim Levinson, The Herd, Elefant Traks, Hermitude, The Signal, Paul Kelly, Triple J, and Distant Sense of Random Menace
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Sydney Morning Herald - Top Headlines | May 03, 2008
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...the music project, which was initiated by the activist group GetUp. Its main purpose was to deliver a message of reconciliation through Carmody and Kelly's classic song. Organisers behind The GetUp Mob project are said to be considering a...
In this article: Kevin Rudd, Paul Kelly, Paul Keating, GetUp, From Little Things Big Things Grow, Missy Higgins, Madonna, and Australia
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Song for Reconciliation
Song for Reconciliation The Herd song was originally composed by Paul Kelly and Kev Carmody and told the story of the 1966 Gurindji Strike led by Vincent Lingiari, the new song featuring Kelly, Missy Higgins and Urthboy includes exerts from...
In this article: Paul Kelly, Australia, Stolen Generation, The Herd, Vincent Lingiari, Midnight Oil, Peter Garret, Missy Higgins, and Paul Keating
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From Little Things Big Things Grow
...version was released as a single in 1993 but did not chart. Also in 1993, an SBS television documentary , ''Bloodbrothers, examined and Carmody and his music including this song. The song was performed on 7 July 2007 on the Australian leg...
In this article: Paul Kelly, Australian Recording Industry Association, From Little Things Big Things Grow, John Butler, GetUp!, Vincent Lingiari, Missy Higgins, Paul Keating, and Kevin Rudd
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Kevin Daniel Carmody is an Indigenous Australian singer-songwriter born in 1946 in Cairns, Queensland. His father was a second generation Irish descendant, his mother a Murri woman. The family moved to southern Queensland in early 1950. Carmody grew up on a cattle station near Goranba, 70km west of Dalby in the Darling Downs area of south eastern Queensland. His parents worked as drovers there, moving cattle along the stock routes.When he was ten years old, Carmody was taken from his parents under the assimilation policy and sent to a Christian school, after which he returned to his rural roots and worked for seventeen years as a country labourer.
At the age of 33 Carmody had the opportunity to go to university where he attended the Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education, at which he completed a Bachelor of Arts degree, with honours. He later undertook postgraduate studies and completed a Diploma of Education from the University of Queensland, eventually finishing a PhD. While at university Carmody used his guitar as a means of implementing oral history in tutorials, which led to his career in music.
His first album, Pillars of Society, was released in 1989 and drew heavily upon country music and folk music styles. Australian Rolling Stone described the record as "the best album ever released by an Aboriginal musician and arguably the best protest album ever made in Australia". In subsequent recordings he has adopted a broad range of music styles from reggae to rock and roll.
Carmody regularly tours Australia and internationally and is highly regarded by audiences and critics.
He co-wrote "From Little Things Big Things Grow" with Paul Kelly on the The Gurindji Strike.
- Name At Birth:
- Kevin Daniel Carmody
- Birth Date:
- January 01, 1946
- Occupation:
- Musician
- Instrument Played:
- vocals, guitar, harmonica
- Record Label:
- Song Cycles
- Larrikin Records/Festival Records
- Years Active:
- 1989–current
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