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Active from
  
1982

Fitzroy Xpress Community Indigenous Radio Ngarralinyi 2TLP Radio 1033 FM

Albums
  
Little Bit of Country and Little Bit of Rock & Roll

Similar
  
Warumpi Band, Coloured Stone, Mop & The Dropouts, Yabu Band, Roger Knox

Fitzroy xpress home sweet home


Fitzroy Xpress is an indigenous Aboriginal country rock band from the remote Kimberley town of Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia

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Beginnings

Members formed as a school band in 1982.

Career

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They performed at the Stompen Ground festival in 1992, 1996 and 1998, the Fremantle Arts Festival in 1997 and the "Don’t Dam the River" concert in Broome in 1999. They have also recorded songs in Bunaban, the traditional language of the Kimberley region.

Fitzroy Xpress continues to operate independently, under its own management.

Awards

Fitzroy Xpress Home Page

At the Derby Country Music Festival in 1996 they were winners in the Professional Section, Band Section and Songwriting Section and in 2005, the band won a Deadly Award for Album Release of the Year for Home Sweet Home, beating Australian Idol winner Casey Donovan for the award.

Documentary

Fitzroy Xpress were the subjects of the 2005 documentary Home Sweet Home and an episode of SBS's Blaktrax.

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Fitzroy Xpress Diary

Songs

Rodeo Road
Little Bit of Country
In Your Dreams

References

Fitzroy Xpress Wikipedia


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