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Monday 13 January 2003, Media Release

CASSAR-DALY SIGNS ON TO SURVIVAL CONCERT

Country music star, Troy Cassar-Daly, has signed on to perform at the annual Survival Concert on "Australia Day", Sunday January 26th, at Woomera Reserve La Perouse.

Winner of several Golden Guitar and Aria awards, Cassar-Daly has also been nominated this year for five Country Music Awards, including Best Album. Prior to his performance at the Survival Day Concert, he will play a free concert with Kasey Chambers in Tamworth to raise money for the Tamworth Salvation Army Drought Relief Fund. Cassar-Daly is also currently working on a duet with Paul Kelly which will be released in February.

Cassar-Daly will join a host of other Indigenous artists, including Mary G, the Donovans and Bobby McLeod, at this year's Survival Concert to celebrate the survival of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and 20 years of Land Rights in NSW.

In a return to its traditional home at La Perouse, this year's event is once again sponsored by the NSW Aboriginal Land Council.

Chairperson of the NSW Aboriginal Land Council, Les Trindall, said that this year's concert will also celebrate 20 years of legislative land rights in NSW and honor those who have fought to achieve Aboriginal rights in this State.

"We will be inviting many of our brothers and sisters who have fought for Aboriginal rights in NSW and those involved in establishing the NSW Aboriginal Land Council under the NSW Aboriginal Land Rights Act," Chairperson Trindall said.

Since the first concert which was held on "Australia Day" in 1988 as a protest of the bi-centennial celebrations of the colonial invasion, the Survival Concert has evolved to become an annual celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture.