The students in Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia, have an opportunity of joining exceptionally talented singers from the most remote third of NSW who will converge for the sixth sensational year on Coonamble for the Moorambilla Festival.

Students are selected from a rigorous workshop and audition process. They will take part in a series of workshops in composition, movement, percussion, music skills development and visual art with indigenous artists, during intensive creative residency camps at Baradine in August in preparation for recordings and performances at the Moorambilla Festival in Coonamble between September 22-25.

There are workshops in fire sculpture, Japanese drumming, sword dancing; blues singing. Armenian, Greek and Jazz workshops are also scheduled, The Ridge News reported.