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Latitude

-4.212505

Longitude

152.1745

Start Date

1993-04-08

End Date

1993-04-08

Tape#1: Musical Background of Andy Sieghers. Side A&B: Andy Sieghers is of Ambonese descent and heritage, an Indonesian ethnic group of mixed Austronesian-Papuan origin. The Ambonese are from Ambon Island in Maluku, an island group east of Sulawesi and north of Timor in Indonesia. Andy's family moved to Rabaul during the German colonial rule and the Ambonese people who migrated live together in the Malaytown area of the township. Andy was a musician and based at the Kambiu Club within the Malaytown area. Ray Sheriden compiled a list of songs performed at the Kambiu Club Stringband with its band and Andy describes some of the songs in the list which were mixture of languages in Ambonese, Tok Pisin, English and other PNG songs. These songs were composed either in Ambon, Rabaul and PNG about general life stories and events such as wartime, fishing, paddling canoes, trading, frienships, working as domestic servants, happy and sad times, new experiences from traditional to modern lifestyles and so on; Djiou Malihat (Ambonese) Ajing gonggong (Ambonese) Nonomanis (Ambonese) Aio mama (Ambonese) Tete manis (Ambonese) Adu manae (Ambonese) Long long ago (English) Yu liklik man (Tok Pisin) Diru diru (Ambonese) Kole kole (Ambonese) Come along and stay at bamboo place (English) When Rabaul was like heaven (Rabaul) Olesio (Ambonese) Nusaniwe (Ambonese) Moto kar long rot (Tok Pisin) Paso (Ambonese) Rosan blu (Ambonese) Tulingane (Mussau) Asapupi (Ambonese) Asu bimata (Ambonese) Meri Manam (Tok Pisin) Andy Sieghers was in the Kambiu Club Stringband and other musicians and associates like Peter Sahluteru, Phillip Tabuchi, Ben Kepas, Ivan Liveris, George Kessy, John Kapu, Martin Kapu. Kambiu Club was a popular social entertainment for the mixed raced community living in Rabaul town and the occasional Tolai who were friends mainly with Malaytown residents. (Steven Gagau, January 2020)

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