MaryRose is a student who is completing her final year in a Bachelor of Music a University of Melbourne. Her musical experience includes piano and trumpet performance, a previous position of assistant conductor of the Malta Gozo City of Brimbank Concert band. She is currently teaching piano, brass, history and theory of music.

As part of her final year studies at the University, she is completing a minor thesis on the Maltese Ghana tradition in Melbourne, specifically Ghana Spirtu Pront. She is concentrating on the similarities and differences between Ghana in Malta and in Melbourne and evaluating the effects, migration to Australia, has had on Ghana.

MaryRose lives in country Victoria in Diggers Rest.

Kevin is Musician/Music Researcher, Music writer and musician.

He has done invaluable sound recordings of many types of folkloric genres, which have existed or taken roots in Australia. Maltese Ghana being one type which fascinated him from the start

He has presented several papers on sound engineering and sound preservation in Australia and overseas, and is currently the Manager of Digital and Audio Preservation Resources at the National Library of Australia which is situated in Canberra. Kevin lives in the A.C.T. and formed an integral part of Dr.Barry York "Folklife Project."

Kevin Bradley’s recordings of various samples of Maltese Ghana have ensured the preservation of Maltese Traditional Music for the future.

Kevin will speak about his experiences and impressions of this Maltese musical phenomenon and then go on to inform us how to access the information from the National Library. He is indeed a valuable speaker who also chose Ghana music for his thesis in his Bachelor in bachelor of Arts (Honours) in the School of Archeology and Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, Australian national University.

He called his thesis "The Weight of Sound".

Folklore guitarist/craftsman/Vice President of the Maltese Literature Group/Poet. Freddie does not need a long introduction. He is an active member of the Maltese Community of Australia in various aspects of the Arts. Apart from the Maltese language he has a passion for Maltese Ghana and organized and coordinated many an Ghana night in various venues in Melbourne.

Studying for her Bachelor of Music at Macquarie University N.S.W. Eve, whose mother is Maltese, found the need to search for her roots through the Ghana Music medium. She has attended several Ghana nights in Melbourne and has gathered interviews in the course of her studies. She is a classical musician who is completing her Bachelor of Music at Macquarie University.

In her Paper "Translating Maltese Ghana" she looks at the problems and Importance of Language and Culture in the Australian Maltese Community. Eve has just spent time overseas so I not been able to receive her profile in time. Eve lives in Sydney.

The above presentation gave the people attending, a chance to hear the other view by the new generations of Maltese, born in Australia who are studying Ghana music on an academical level. The majority of the speakers spoke on Ghana’s values as a form of identity for the Maltese living away from Malta. The general observations were on the Ghana Community, which exist in the Maltese community in general, but somehow remains, a separate sector in its own ways and traditions. After the talk question time was taken and many questions were addressed by the group.

The meeting venue was the Maltese Centre in Parkville and once again one must congratulate the Maltese Historical Association for continuing to create a educational platform, for the Maltese community to be informed and keep abreast with all things Maltese.

Manuel Casha

email: manniec@optusnet.com.au