Cheryl Davison is a Walbunja, Ngarigo woman. As a child she spent precious time sitting next to her grandfather in his old wooden boat on the shores of Wallaga Lake on the Far South Coast of New South Wales.

Cheryl’s grandmother was a Ngarigo woman from the Snowy Mountains region of New South Wales. As a young child, Cheryl’s grandmother was stolen away from country and never had the chance to return home in her lifetime.

Growing up, Cheryl felt privileged to be around many of her Elders and the community, listening to stories of the Yuin people.

Cheryl has studied and taught visual arts, graphic arts and printmaking. It was these foundations that shaped her life and fostered the artist and storyteller that she has become, exhibiting nationally and internationally.

Cheryl is the First Nations Creative Director of Four Winds Concerts, and She also sits on the Gulaga National Park Board of Management that governs the direction of care for the Yuin people’s beloved and sacred mountain.

Cheryl is dedicated to her people, committed to healing the rifts caused by Australia’s devastating colonisation and steadfast in honouring her elders’ visions for her people and culture to be united, and strong — reasserting themselves in a world that is in desperate need of this ancient wisdom.

Big Sing Inc is proud and excited to partner with Four Winds for the Barragga Yangga project in October 2024. Big Sing Inc is a not-for-profit association and registered charity established with the aim to foster and support community singing events that provide opportunities for musical and cultural sharing. Big Sing Community events bring together First Nations and non-Indigenous people to share language, culture, story and the joy of singing.

Big Sing Community events are innovative, grassroots and local. Our events change the lives of participants – they are practical ‘reconciliation in action’.

“When we get together for the music, the singing, it’s like healing. That’s what I see.” – Gwen Inkamala, Big Sing participant from Ntaria, NT.

Big Sing Community began in 2010 with Big Sing in the Desert – a unique music camp launched by musical director Rachel Hore OAM. Singers from Central Desert communities – Utju (Areyonga), Ntaria (Hermannsburg), Kaltukatjara (Docker River), Mutitjulu, Titjikala, and Mparntwe (Alice Springs) – and non-Indigenous singers from across Australia, come together in the Eastern MacDonnell Ranges near Alice Springs to sing, share songs and culture. Tutors are Rachel Hore OAM and Morris Stuart AM, with members of the Central Australian Aboriginal Women’s Choir supporting workshops and singing sessions.

Inspired by the success of Big Sing in the Desert, Big Sing Inc now support First Nations people to run similar events in their communities. Big Sing by the Sea (Forster, NSW), a wonderful weekend of choral singing in Forster, is a collaboration with Big Sing Inc, local Worimi and Birripai elders, local choir leader Sandra Kwa and Forster Neighbourhood Centre. Singing on Dyarubbin Shores (Hawkesbury River region, NSW) is a choral weekend in Richmond with local Darug musicians Stacy Jane Etal and Jacinta Tobin, with local choir leader Suze Pratten. New choirs have been created and collaborative projects initiated from connections made at these Big Sing Community events.

More information: www.bigsingcommunity.com