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NAIDOC Week on ABC Country

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Jul 1, 2010 Updated Nov 30, 2011

To celebrate NAIDOC Week, ABC Country brings you a special selection of music from some of Australia's greatest indigenous country musicians.

Listen out on your digital radio, online and via your digital set top box for music from Troy Cassar-Daley, Jimmy Little, Archie Roach, Ruby Hunter, Warrumpi Band and Friends, David Hudson, Glenn Skuthorpe, Pigram Brothers, Kev Carmody, Warren Williams, Mark A Hunter and many more.

NAIDOC Week is held around Australia in July each year to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. NAIDOC Week 2010 happens from July 4 - 11.

To find out more about how ABC Radio is celebrating NAIDOC Week, visit the ABC Radio website.

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Jimmy Little AO (born James Oswald Little on 1 March 1937), is an Australian Aboriginal musician, singer, songwriter and guitarist, whose career has spanned six decades. For many years he was the only Aboriginal star on the Australian music scene. He says his music has been influenced by Nat King Cole and American country music artist Jim Reeves. Career Jimmy Little - a member of the Yorta...

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