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Margaret Bradford with Hoya - Thancoupie

from Inspirational Women by Hoya by Sonya Bradford with Hoya

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Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander people should be aware this CD/song contains images and names of deceased persons.
Margaret plays the bowed psaltery on this track.
Thancoupie…Gloria Fletcher (1937-2011) Essentially a ceramic sculptor, Thancoupie created egg shape forms as a symbol of fertility and spheres as the earth and the cycle of life.  Born at Weipa in far northern Queensland Thancoupie was a beautiful, warm, positive Aboriginal woman. Sadly her Thainakuith people were dispersed when bauxite was mined on their land at Cape York. A pivotal figure in Australian art history she was among the first to be recognised as an individual contemporary First Nations artist in Australia.  
Her name, Thancoupie means “flower of the wattle”
Ref. Thancoupie The Potter by  Jennifer Isaacs

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Thanacoupie Margaret Bradford
Flower of the Wattle, Thanacoupie Love flows from your hands
Flower of the Wattle, Thanacoupie Love flows from your hands
Her image a circle in clay.
A symbol of love for all people on earth.
Dreamtime legends survive in her pots that travel the world.
Flower of the…… your hands
Her Thanaquith tribe lost their soul
When bauxite was mined from their land at Cape York
But in clay their culture’s preserved. Undaunted by 200 years
Flower of the…… your hands
Reading the flowers and seasons
Living as one with the birds and the trees.
At peace with the great spirit mother For 40,000 years
Flower of the…… your hands

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from Inspirational Women by Hoya, track released September 15, 2021
Thancoupie composed by Margaret Bradford and recorded by the group Hoya.
HOYA is a 5 piece ensemble which includes Margaret Bradford on lead vocals, bowed psaltery and whistle, Sonya Bradford on lead vocals and harmonies, bass guitar and keyboard, Gwyn Cleeves on harmonies and guitar, Marcus Holden on violin, dobro, keyboard, cello, guitars, and Ian Knight on mandolin and harmonies.
Produced in Bloody Dog Studios Sydney.

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Margaret Bradford Sydney, Australia

Margaret's CD, inspirational women, is fittingly called HOYA- after the perennial green vine which she inherited from her grandmother. Like the Hoya plant, women’s stories grow and survive, we endure, and our struggles and responses intertwine and recur in each generation. Excellent musicians, on guitar, fiddle, mandolin & piano create a delightful river of sound under Margaret's songs ... more

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