On Monday, 25 March, the event “Songlines: The Ancient Secret to Our Planet’s Oldest Surviving Culture” featuring Joaquin Rudd and Fred Leone took place at Santa Marta university campus
Joaquin Rudd, son of Australian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Xavier Rudd, shares his father’s passion for primitive music and atmospheres. Fred Leone, a member of the Garrwa and Butchulla tribes of Queensland, serves as a Songman, a guardian of the linguistic and cultural traditions of Aboriginal peoples, which he transmits through musical practice. To ensure that the identities of the Garrwa and Butchulla tribes remain part of the international collective memory, Leone has transcribed and set to music oral stories and songs from Aboriginal tribal ceremonies, incorporating their sounds and instrumentation.
During the event, Rudd and Leone discussed and performed the sounds of the Australian Aboriginal tribal cultures, with Leone serving as their custodian and spokesperson. The event concluded with a live performance by Joaquin Rudd on the didgeridoo.