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VROOM is a free national online resource for original music touring, created by Music NSW and partnered by Music NT and Artback NT to research and establish the venues component for the Northern Territory.

With well over 1300 venues listed nationawide across VROOM, you can research and plan tours by region, capacity, genre, venue type and more. Explore each of our state sites for fact sheets, contacts, forums and industry info. VROOM aims to help artists, bookers and managers to get their careers on the road.

Check it out at this link VROOM NT

VROOM NT - LAUNCH was held on 14th May 2009 at Kitty O'Sheas, presented by Music NT.

Photo: Louise Partos

Newmont Tanami Sponsorship

Indigenous Music Emerging Artist Award Winners

B2M - 2008

Pott Street - 2009

Wildflower - 2010

In 2008, Artback NT was very excited to enter into a partnership with Newmont Tanami Operations and HWE Mining to sponsor an Award at the Indigenous Music Awards 2008 - 2010. The Award provides skills and industry development to the winner of the Emerging Act of the Year and involves a guaranteed tour of the Northern Territory the following year which would be facilitated and managed by Artback NT: Arts Development and Touring.

The tour will offer a:

- Community benefit through the presentation of high quality live music performances to regional and remote audiences;

and the benefit for the performers of

- Increased recognition musically throughout the Northern Territory and an opportunity to develop regional audiences.

The NT Indigenous Music Awards, presented by Music NT at the Amphitheatre as part of the Darwin Festival each August, are now the NT music industry's highlight of the year. As the only dedicated Indigenous music industry awards in Australia it is an event increasingly gaining a national reputation as a showcase and high quality night of performance. The Awards are broadcast live on Indigenous radio throughout the NT and nationally, and for the first time in 2007, were filmed for TV broadcast on National Indigenous TV.

Artback NT, Newmont Tanami Operations and HWE Mining are proud to sponsor this Award for the next three years.

News & Events 2010


Image Courtesy Country Arts WA		Artback NT wishes to congratulate Tammy Anderson on a great social outcome for theatre. After a successful NT regional touring season of 'I Don't Want To Play House', Tammy Anderson has been invited by several organisations in the Tennant Creek community to return and facilitate workshops at a residency. Starting 11 October 2010, Tammy will be working with the Stronger Sista's program at the Tennant Creek Women's Refuge, the Tennant Creek Middle School and Beyond Empathy to protect and inform children at risk in the area. Her residency will include another performance of the theatre piece that is based on her experiences during her first 15 years of 'living in 16 houses, three caravans and going to 12 schools' and raises all the now familiar issues of abuse, domestic violence, love, survival, dysfunctional families and hope.

Artback NT: Arts Development and Touring has won the: Excellence Award for Inclusive Art Practice Presented by Darwin City Council on the International Day of People with Disability, 3rd December 2009 by Alderman Kerry Moir, Acting Deputy Lord Mayor.

Artback NT are pleased to announce that Muttacar Sorry Business has been presented with the Project of the Year Award in the National Not For Profit sector. The other two shortlisted finalists were: - Ronald McDonald House Charities - Reading for Life - Learning Links Project Muttacar - Sorry Business In 2008, the Artback NT tour of Muttacar - Sorry Business travelled throughout central Australia for 22 performances and covered over 5000 kilometres. In 2009, Artback NT worked again with the Transport Safety Division of the Department of Planning & Infrastructure and Yirra Yaakin (YY), an Indigenous theatre company based in Western Australia, to tour Muttacar - Sorry Business throughout Darwin and Arnhem Land.		Cast of Muttacar Sorry Business Yirara College, Alice Springs, July 2008 Photo: Louise Partos

		Desert Mob DanceSite 2010 Presented by Artback NT and Barkly Regional Arts, DanceSite was successfully staged for the first time at Purkiss Reserve in Tennant Creek on the 5th September, as a part of the Desert Harmony Festival. This year, DanceSite was hosted by the Warumungu of Tennant Creek showcased over 120 Indigenous dancers from the Barkly, Roper and Central Australian regions to a mostly Indigenous audience of over 2000 people. Special guests, the Red Flag Dancers from Numblwar headlined the showcase event which also included; Simpson Desert Dancers from Alice Springs; Warumungu Karrti, Munga Munga and Milyiwayi Dancers from Tennant Creek; Mara, Yanyula and Garawa Dancers from Borraloola; Warabri and Jarra Jarra Dancers from Ali Curung; and Ghenoa Gela from the Torres Strait Islands. Photograph of Red Flag Dancers by Wayne Quilliam

VROOM - Venue Resource Of Original Music VROOM is a free national online resource for original music touring, created by Music NSW and partnered by Music NT and Artback NT to research and establish the venues component for the Northern Territory. With well over 1300 venues listed nationawide across VROOM, you can research and plan tours by region, capacity, genre, venue type and more. Explore each of our state sites for fact sheets, contacts, forums and industry info. VROOM aims to help artists, bookers and managers to get their careers on the road. Check it out at this link VROOM NT VROOM NT - LAUNCH was held on 14th May 2009 at Kitty O'Sheas, presented by Music NT. Photo: Louise Partos

Above: B2M receiving the 2008 award Below: Pott Street receiving the 2009 award		Newmont Tanami Sponsorship Indigenous Music Emerging Artist Award Winners B2M - 2008 Pott Street - 2009 Wildflower - 2010 In 2008, Artback NT was very excited to enter into a partnership with Newmont Tanami Operations and HWE Mining to sponsor an Award at the Indigenous Music Awards 2008 - 2010. The Award provides skills and industry development to the winner of the Emerging Act of the Year and involves a guaranteed tour of the Northern Territory the following year which would be facilitated and managed by Artback NT: Arts Development and Touring. The tour will offer a: - Community benefit through the presentation of high quality live music performances to regional and remote audiences; and the benefit for the performers of - Increased recognition musically throughout the Northern Territory and an opportunity to develop regional audiences. The NT Indigenous Music Awards, presented by Music NT at the Amphitheatre as part of the Darwin Festival each August, are now the NT music industry's highlight of the year. As the only dedicated Indigenous music industry awards in Australia it is an event increasingly gaining a national reputation as a showcase and high quality night of performance. The Awards are broadcast live on Indigenous radio throughout the NT and nationally, and for the first time in 2007, were filmed for TV broadcast on National Indigenous TV. Artback NT, Newmont Tanami Operations and HWE Mining are proud to sponsor this Award for the next three years.