Narasirato perform at the Queensland Music Festival 2005

CD Recording

The group released their second CD in March 2007. If you would like to purchase one or more CDs then please go to the recordings page.

The Pan People Project (Australia)

The Pan People Project started in 2005 with the visit to the home village of the Narasirato Pan Pipers by musician (and chairperson of Pan People Projects) Peter Keelan. This was the first step towards a major festival project in 2008 which will feature the world's great pan pipe musicians from Bolivia, Romania and Mozambique.

The Culture House building project

The Narasirato Pan Pipers are working on a plan to build a Culture House in their home village of Oterama. They have selected an area of land on the side of a hill overlooking their village, with a stunning vista onto untouched virgin rainforest. It is here that the group plans to build a place where they can rehearse, make and store their musical instruments, create costumes, hold meetings, pass on their music and culture to others and create new compositions and choreographies.

For people living a subsistence lifestyle the available cash to buy chainsaws, petrol, hammers, saws, chisels and so on is almost nil. The Australian tour undertaken in March and April of 2007, and CD sales, are focussed towards raising the funds needed to buy the tools and materials required for the musicians themselves to construct this centre for Aré Aré traditional culture.

If you would like to contribute in any way towards this wonderful project please contact Narasirato

International Touring

The group is now eager to present itself to international audiences in the following ways:

• Festival performances
  • traditional Aré Aré music
  • contemporary Narasirto music, song and dance
  • presenting a program which draws from both traditional and contemporary sources
• Workshops
  • the group can conduct workshops at festivals and schools, and privately
  • playing pan pipes, stomping tubes and thong-o-phones
  • traditional songs and harmonies
  • instrument making
  • traditional games and dance movements

  Narasirato playing with south american band Inka Marka at the finale concert of the Penang World Music Festival 2007

• Digital Projections
  • digital stills and/or videos are available showing aspects of traditional Solomon Island village life
  • this material is available on DVD to accompany live performances
• Moving Performance
  • as a roving musical performance for festivals and international events
• Collaborations
  • the group is keen to collaborate with musicians from other countries, to share their culture and create personal links, exploring a sense of cultural diversity and harmony throughout the world. This may involve just a few of the musicians, the touring group or perhaps the whole ensemble of fifty musicians?!

If you would like to include the Narasirato Pan Pipers in your festival or event, please contact Peter Keelan, Chairperson, Pan People Projects Inc.

School Books

The musical director of Narasirato, Donation Manuasi, joyously accepts the books from Christina McGuiness and the Cooktown Library manager Diana Burns

The Narasirato musicians and management are supporting a request by the school headmaster in Oterama Village, to acquire books for the school children to read. With the generous support of the people of Cooktown in Queensland, Christina McGuiness and staff at the local library, the group returned from the Queensland Music Festival with four suitcases of books.

Annie from Cooktown Library has now organised, together with the generous assistance of the Cooktown Shire, to send twelve boxes of books to Oterama Village school for the students to read and learn about the world. Albert, the school headmaster, was overawed by the generosity and sends his utmost thanks to all supporters.

If you would like to contribute to this project please contact Peter Keelan