In remote Australia, a concert becomes something much bigger

Maybe it's the music, maybe it's the excitement of the gig in their small, remote community, maybe they just want to bash things.As the band hit the outro of their 2017 song French Press, the youngsters grab sticks and start gleefully bashing along."They never planned it," fellow performer Stella Donnelly says later."They just got up … it was the most hilarious thing I've ever seen." At this concert in a remote Arnhem Land community, the kids show us what pure joy looks like all night.They climb onstage, they breathlessly chase each other around, they grab the microphone when they can get away with it."It was just magic," Donnelly says.Moments like this sit at the heart of Guts, a roaming, solar-powered tour that snakes its way through some of the most remote communities in the Northern Territory, bringing together bands from the city and the bush to hold concerts in areas that don't host a lot of touring musicians.It sounds straightforward: a string of gigs in parks and community spaces World-class artists playing through a powerful PA, broad, untouched natural landscapes, and massive open skies serving as breathtaking backdrops.But long after the trucks are packed, the swags are rolled, and the visitors have left community, the impact of these visits resonates."There's such a role for this sort of a tour, not only for the bands to bring something to the communities, but to learn something themselves," Keaney says."Further to that, for rural and remote bands to be able to venture out and meet bands from the cities and to connect with communities all around the state."It doesn't stop there