David Hyams

Composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist from Western Australia. Plays acoustic, electric and steel guitars, as well as mandolin, bass, dobro and harmonica, he has performed in a wide range of musical styles, from blues, pop/rock and country to progressive folk. David has had a long involvement with WA indigenous musicians. He has worked on a number of projects with Aboriginal and regional communities, in particular as a co-ordinator of an ArtsWA community music project in the Central Desert community of Jameson (Mantamaru) in 2005 to 2006. He has been involved in community projects all over the state, having travelled to the Cocos Islands in 2010 to work with children in the Cocos Malay community. Over the past 4 years, he has been running songwriting workshops in several WA prisons, resulting in 55 songs being recorded - and including a collaboration with a women's choir in Boronia pre-release centre. A compilation album "Songs from the Inside" was released in May 2010, which includes 3 songs in Aboriginal languages and a song which has been used in offender treatment programs. From 2006 - 2013, David has run a songwriting to recording workshops in a number of WA prisons.