“Lullaby Land” is the brainchild of Brisbane-based migrant singer-composer-researcher

Dr Charulatha Mani. The musical project constitutes a core ensemble of four Brisbane-based well-regarded musicians from diverse cultural backgrounds - Charu, Greta, Phoebe, and Tichawona. Each of them shares a magical story of their motherland supported by a traditional song of love, care, and nurture. The ensemble weaves in and out of the story-song collective, and together various musics, languages, and tales are reshaped in the warm sunshine of Australia - the vibrant country that sustains and supports this diversity in ample measure today. We often invite guest artists to join us in this experience. There is much research-based and artistic evidence that comforting music and cosy stories, when shared and listened to, instil a sense of well-being, connection to land and nature, and togetherness among the various communities that co-habit in our super diverse societies today. We experienced such a sharing through “Lullaby Land” as we successfully premiered at Multicultural Australia's MOSAIC Festival on October 13, 2019 (at the Roma street Parklands). 

The project has significant research elements and impacts that are bubbling over into various other fields including maternal research, neonatal research, and parental research, all in a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse context.

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Photograph at MOSAIC 2019: Stephen Coull Photography.

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