Yothu Yindi : Garma

With the dawning of 2000 Yothu Yindi toured Australia and New Zealand with the Big Day Out and completed recording their sixth album Garma with producer Andrew Farriss of INXS, a musician with whom the band has been collaborating since 1993. The album was recorded in Sydney and at the Yothu Yindi Foundation's new Yirrnga Music Development Studio in the band's homelands at Gunyangara on the shores of Melville Bay in north-east Arnhem Land.Yothu Yindi capped off a busy year in 2000 with performances at the closing ceremony of the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney and the opening ceremony for the Paralympic Games.