Kev Carmody
Kev’s career in music started while he was at University. His lecturers would let him bring his guitar in as a means of implementing oral history and his background and expressing what we wanted to say in tutorials. He did not, and still does not see himself as "a musician" in the way that most popular musicians see themselves. Still the influences upon him were powerful and profound.
Carmody's initial inspiration came from a truly rural, oral tradition. Both his Irish father and Murri mother came from powerful oral traditions. Carmody still talks about the stories and songs he was told and taught by his Murri grandparents and his extended Murri family of uncles, aunts and cousins.
Today Kev Carmody lives out the life of a modern troubadour. He is a travelling singer/songwriter with a base in southern Queensland and an itinerary which finds him touring the world. He regularly tours Australian goals where he plays to the Aboriginal inmates and has worked with street kids as part of a community education program at Logan City on the Gold Coast. He has also been involved with Feral Arts in Brisbane, an organisation which provides underprivileged kids with videos, games and electronic music.
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