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Pacific Pulse
one ocean – many stories
Pacific Pulse ventures beyond the headlines with feature stories from Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia that reflect contemporary life across the Pacific and recognise the strengths, hopes, achievements and aspirations of the region.
Episode 7
In this episode of Pacific Pulse, Tania Nugent is at Vanuatu's annual 5 day music extravaganza, Fest' Napuan, in Port Vila. Started as a free community event to showcase contemporary local music, now the festival attracts international acts to expose local audiences to a wider diversity of music. It's a coveted gig for any band and unsigned musicians from across the Pacific enter a Radio Australia competition, Pacific Break, with the winner earning the chance to play for the Fest' Napuan crowds. In the tough world of music, it's a valuable opportunity. We catch up with the competition's first winners, 26 Roots from Espiritu Santo in Vanuatu's north, to see if they still have the same musical ambitions a year later. And we meet the 2009 winner, a young man from Papua New Guinea, Emmanuel Mailau, who sings sweetly of the struggles of settlement life at home but has to perform with a band of strangers in the biggest performance of his life.
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