Kev Carmody Kev Carmody i(A57640 works by) (a.k.a. Kevin Carmody)
Born: Established: 1946 Cairns, Cairns area, Ingham - Cairns area, Queensland, ;
Gender: Male
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Irish ; Aboriginal Lama Lama ; Aboriginal Bundjalung
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1 I've Been Moved Kev Carmody , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Love Is Strong as Death 2019;
1 y separately published work icon Recollections... Reflections... (A Journey) Kev Carmody , Australia : Song Cycles Pty Ltd , 2015 10695866 2015 selected work lyric/song autobiography

'One of the most respected singer songwriters of our time - Mr Kev Carmody returns with his first album project in twelve years. Recollections Reflections (A Journey) is the accumulation of years of writing and recording from the esteemed ARIA Hall Of Fame recipient. Decades of lyrics, sounds and song ideas had piled up in Kev Carmody’s manilla folders and tapes at his home in South East QLD. Eventually the time came to commit these ideas to permanent record – for the ages. The result is 40 tracks, spread over 4CD’s and housed in a beautifully crafted fan deluxe pack; a DVD sized, slipcase and 52 page booklet detailing the recording of the album; the four CD”s are housed in a flexitray with beautiful artwork. Importantly –Kev’s life story, including the recording of this album is captured in a feature length documentary ‘Songman’ to be screened on ABC1 in November 2015 – and premiered at the Adelaide Film Festival in October 2015; shining a mainstream light on the storied life of one of our national treasures.' (Publication summary)
1 2 One Night the Moon John Romeril , Kev Carmody (composer), Mairead Hannan (composer), Paul Kelly (composer), 2009 single work musical theatre
1 7 y separately published work icon From Little Things Big Things Grow Paul Kelly , Kev Carmody , Peter Hudson (illustrator), Kalkarinji School (illustrator), Camberwell East : One Day Hill Affirm Press , 2008 Z1546544 2008 single work picture book children's

From Little Things Big Things Grow presents the lyrics of the Kev Carmody and Paul Kelly song of the same title, alongside the history of the Gurindji people's plight for their traditional land in the Northern Territory.

The song recounts the story of when Vincent Lingiari and other Gurindji workers walked off the Wave Hill cattle station in 1966. What began as a strike over wages and conditions became an eight-year long struggle for the return of traditional lands. It ended in August 1975 when Prime Minister Gough Whitlam symbolically poured sand into old Lingiari's hand. The book is illustrated Queensland artist Peter Hudson and the kids from Gurindji country.

From Little Things Big Things Grow is a not-for-profit project established to raise funds to provide art, heritage, and cultural facilities for Gurindji people, with the assistance of Ian Thorpe's Fountain for Youth.

The budding young artists who illustrated From Little Things Big Things Grow attend the local Kalkaringi Community Education Centre (CEC). Kalkaringi is a remote community approximately 500km southwest of Katherine in the Northern Territory. The school services both Kalkaringi and the nearby community of Dargaragu. (Adapted from Publisher's Website)
1 8 From Little Things, Big Things Grow Kev Carmody , Paul Kelly , 2008 single work lyric/song
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 7 May no. 425 2008; (p. 22) Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature 2009; (p. 1115-1116) Land Anthology 2011; (p. 22-23) 'The apology to the Stolen Generations on 13 February 2008 marked a place in Australian history that The GetUp Mob, featuring Kev Carmody, Paul Kelly, Urthboy and Missy Higgins, have marked with the new release of the GetUp StandUp version of From Little Things Big Things Grow'. Source: http://music.ninemsn.com.au/ (Sighted 20/11/08).
1 form y separately published work icon Ripples From Wave Hill Part 2 Lord Vestey , Paul Kelly , Billy Bunter , Maurie Ryan Japarta , Jimmy Wavehill , Violet Wadrill , Brian Manning , Alan Thorpe , Gus George , Ted Egan , Yunupingu , Kev Carmody , Paul Coe , Meredith Burgmann , Philip Nitschke , E. G. Whitlam , Canberra : ABC Television , 2007 9911980 2007 single work film/TV 'Story of Australia's first successful land rights campaign: an against-the-odds struggle that reshaped our nation. Recalls the momentous fight started 40 years ago by the Gurindji people of the Northern Territory. On Australia's biggest cattle station, they took on one of England's richest aristocrats, the beef baron Lord Vestey. Their 1966 strike became one of our longest industrial disputes. Their rebellion gave rise to a national movement. The Gurindji stuck to their demands - over nine hard years - and garnered support across Australia; from bricklayers to folk singers, from white university students to a new wave of young, urban Indigenous activists. These pioneering alliances carried the Gurindji message from the edge of the Tanami desert to the world. First-hand account of the struggle - told by the Aboriginal people who fought for their land and the radicals who joined with them.' (Source: TROVE)
1 Moonlight on the Desert Wind i "Sad black faces going away", Kev Carmody , 2000 single work lyric/song
— Appears in: Ngoonjook , July no. 17 2000; (p. 94)
1 Jack Deelin i "Jack Deelin went a walkin' upon a market day", Kev Carmody , 1988 single work poetry
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , March vol. 7 no. 1 1988; (p. 60)
1 Middenbury Current Affairs Kev Carmody , 1988 single work prose
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , March vol. 7 no. 1 1988; (p. 21)
1 The Bitter Cake Kev Carmody , 1988 single work essay
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , March vol. 7 no. 1 1988; (p. 3-6) The theme of European Australias' Bicentenary is: "Living Together"-Living together for what? Living together when? Most importantly, how we live together? These are questions this short dissertation will touch upon. What quality of life can we as Aboriginal people expect in the future, if we scrutinise the last 200 years as the model of "Living Together" with the European people who invaded our land?
1 Aboriginal Oral History : Some Problems in Methodology Kev Carmody , 1987 single work essay
— Appears in: Black Voices , July vol. 3 no. 1 1987; (p. 1-6)
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