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Small Island Big Song Concert & Impact
‘Our Island’
Framed in a theatrical narrative amongst panoramic visuals of the artist’s homelands, the audience experiences a musical journey across the breadth and into the soul of island nations of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, meeting an ancient seafaring ancestry and confronting the impacts of environmental changes head on.
Drawing on a roster of respected islander artists maintaining their musical lineage, ‘Our Island’ is a unique oceanic collaboration combining musical traditions, dance, personal testimony and live cinema engaging audiences from huge festival stages to intimate theatres.
Within the concert, we have two slots for local collaborations; a youth voice, and a local singer-songwriter. Moving beyond the concert, Small Island Big Song offers a rich community engagement program to creatively engage and unpack the environmental, social and cultural contexts on our oceans’ islands.
Small Island Big Song is a music, film & performing arts project uniting islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans; a contemporary artistic statement confronting our concerns for a changing sea.
Founded by Taiwanese theatre producer BaoBao Chen and Australian music producer and filmmaker Tim Cole in 2015, the two have been recording and filming with over a hundred musicians in nature across 16 island nations of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. The outcomes include two award-winning albums, a feature film, impact programs, and a live concert that has toured around the world across 20 countries reaching over 200K+ live audiences since 2018, creating "One coherent jaw dropping piece" as described by Rob Schwartz - Billboard.
Music critic Tom Orr has noted in the RootsWorld review “….sound like one very big, very happy family doing what they do best while helping get the word out on a most serious issue.”
2015 BaoBao & Tim quit theirs jobs after hearing the 5th IPCC report, with a dream to unite the voices of the ocean through musical collaboration
2016 to 2018 with a couple of cameras & mic's, they collaborated with musicians across 16 island nations.
2018 we premiered our concert at SXSW International Day Stage, and have been touring the world since.
The artists & islands BaoBao & Tim have visited,
connected by the ocean & an ancient seafaring heritage.
Small Island Big Song project trailer