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I have been working a lot with AJAR’s team in the largest refugee camp in the world, 1.7 million Rohingya victims, living under plastic sheeting in Bangladesh after being driven from their homes by the Burmese military junta.
Sometimes after work I pull my guitar out and play a few songs.

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These are some live shots of last week’s sold-out gig at Humph Hall. 100% of the ticket sales were donated to Asia Justice and Rights (AJAR’s) program of tracing and family unifications with victims who were taken from their families in East Timor by Indonesian soldiers. The experience of 7 year old Nina who was reunited 30 years later  was the inspiration for my song “Stolen Children.” The song begins:  “I was holding on tight to your old blue dress when the car came into view/ The man in green said ‘I’ll take this one,’ I thought he meant to school…”

Watch the video of the Stolen Children song, shot in East Timor REF

See the ABC’s Foreign Correspondent story on AJAR’s Stolen Children program https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu_EUpLtMYg

‘Stolen Children’ the latest single by Patrick Burgess: https://patburgess.bandcamp.com
Listen on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/43VPkYt
Tune in on Apple Music: https://apple.co/3N3imPT
Music Video: https://youtu.be/ALGUyY3_rQ0

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Our Songs and Stories show at Humph Hall in Sydney last week was a fantastic event, thanks to the venue hosts Wayne and Gial. All tickets were sold out and the capacity crowd were incredibly positive. It’s a rare opportunity these days to test the strength of songs through a totally unplugged gig… no microphones, no amplifiers, just the human voices, the songs and the pure sound of the instruments. Thanks so much to Katsu for his melodic original tunes to open the show and the stunning set by Brigitte Handley who had stepped off a long flight from Germany the night before, having just completed a very successful European solo tour.

I really enjoyed the opportunity to tell some of the stories behind my songs set in Burma, Timor Leste, Cambodia, Jakarta and Sydney. Thanks to Galuh for the sweet backing vocals and DC (Paul Di Giacomo) for wowing everyone with his virtuoso guitar playing and especially the incredible slide licks on the 93 year old original Dobro guitar.

‘Stolen Children’ the latest single by Patrick Burgess: https://patburgess.bandcamp.com

Listen on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/43VPkYt
Tune in on Apple Music: https://apple.co/3N3imPT
Music Video: https://youtu.be/ALGUyY3_rQ0