SINGERS

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Location: From Central Western NSW, for Sydney Training
Organisation: Talent Development Project Inc
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Last Update: Thursday, June 22, 2006. 10:47am (AEST)

Talent search focuses on Indigenous performers.

Workshops are being held this week for young Indigenous performers in Bourke, Walgett and Dubbo, in central western New South Wales, to try and unearth talented singers.

During the past 15 years, the Talent Development Project Team has discovered artists such as Human Nature, Paulini and John Foreman, but this is the first time the team has ventured west and focused on Indigenous students.

A founder of the project and artistic director Mary Lopez says she is particularly keen to hear performers who have not had training.

"One of the things that makes for a great performer is uniqueness and individuality and if they've got this great talent in there and it hasn't been moulded in any way this is a really fabulously exciting thing for us to discover, because then ... we train them to be really confident about themselves as a performer and then we will help develop the skills," she said.

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