Country musician Josh Arnold helps Pilbara cattle station children share their voices
Country musician Josh Arnold is collaborating with students from the remote Pilbara region of Western Australia to record a song and music video. The project aims to provide a creative outlet for children who receive their education through the School of the Air distance learning program.
Why it matters
It highlights the unique educational challenges and creative resilience of children living in isolated rural communities.
School of the Air students travelled to Yarrie Station to record a song with Josh Arnold. ( Supplied: Josh Arnold )
Link copied Share Share article Children from Western Australia's remote Pilbara have swapped pencils for a microphone to share a taste of rural education through a country song.
The School of the Air students collaborated with award-winning Australian country musician Josh Arnold to produce Kids from the Pilbara.
The group gathered on Yarrie Station, a 250,000-hectare cattle operation about 1,500 kilometres north of Perth, to record the song and accompanying music video.
While learning in a classroom with peers is normal for most Australian students, it is relatively out of the ordinary for station children like nine-year-old Tanami Fox-Coppin.
Tanami is one of 21 students at Port Hedland's School of the Air, an institution that provides distance education to students across the Pilbara's vast interior.
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