Red Dust Young Men’s and Women’s Programs/ Capacity Building. May 5 -May 11 2019

Red Dust are committed to supporting and building capacity with young men and young women in Walungurru/Kintore through dedicated programs and camps.
Red Dust’s Brett Wheeler, Wayne Glenn and Steve Lane (Realtone) headed out to Kintore to run introductory songwriting and audio technology programs in conjunction with the Ngurratjuta CDP running workshops with both the young men and young women.

This included beat making, basic recording, audio signal flow and songwriting.

Both groups were keen to write a song about the tjurrkupa (dreaming story) about 2 women that came up from South Australia to Kintore and stopping at a rock hole that the community was going out to visit later in the week as part of the C.L.C Ranger program.

Uncle Joe Young was asked to tell the story and Preston wrote it all down.
The beat was made up with the young women with Gerard and Jordan.

Local musician Michael Gallagher then played the guitars, providing the foundation for the song.
Chez from the young women’s group then recorded the keyboards and Francis the bass guitar.
The melody for the song was then work-shopped and two vocalist chosen from both of the groups to sing.

Finally, we recorded Joe Young introducing the story.
With the song recorded, a convoy of nine 4wd’s headed south to follow the story of the Two Women via the salt plane, 2 women rock hole and Walden Rock/Miturkatjiri.

The convoy was led by the Old people and the C.L.C mob and many of the community.
The video was filmed on location and edited in Walungurru.

Francis: Bass
Michael: Guitars
Uncle Joe Young: spoken intro
Chez: keyboards
Vocals: Chez, Francis.
Beats: Gerard and the Young Women
Produced by Realtone (Wayne Glenn & Steve Lane) with Brett Wheeler and the young men and women of Walunguru (Kintore)