Charlie McMahon

Quick Facts

Full Name	Charlie McMahon
Occupation	Musician
Date Of Birth	Jun 19, 1951(1951-06-19)
Age	73
Birthplace	Blue Mountains
Country	Australia
Birth City	New South Wales
Horoscope	Gemini

Charlie McMahon Biography

Charlie McMahon is one of the most popular and richest Musician who was born on June 19, 1951 in Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia. Charlie McMahon (born in the Blue Mountains outside Sydney, 1951) is an Australian didgeridoo player. The group’s founder Gondwanaland, McMahon was one of the first musicians from outside Australia to be recognized as professional players of the instrument.

After two and two and a half years of working and living off his declining savings, he completed his bush retreat, and was blessed to get a position with the Federal Department of Aboriginal Affairs as an Aboriginal Development Coordinator within the Northern Territory, supervising outstation work grants for tribal communities living in the hundreds of kilometers to the west of Alice Springs at the settlements of Kintore, Kiwirrkurra Community, Western Australia, and Papunya (the place of birth in 1971 for The Australian Aboriginal dot painting revival).

In 1974, back at his day job, McMahon was growing increasingly disillusioned with what he later described as the “too much talk” atmosphere of campus academic life. During one particularly stifling lecture in a dungeon-like library basement with no windows and bare walls McMahon and his assistant interrupted their discussion of map interpretation with the impulsive act of encouraging the students to join them in painting the walls. This behaviour was seen by the University Chancellor as the ultimate act of confrontation and defiance of authority by an untameable teacher and McMahon was dismissed.

In 1974 a three-day arts festival season by the White Company at Sydney’s Arts Castle venue included a performance by McMahon. After a productive post-show dulcimer and didgeridoo improvisation session in a dome on the roof of the venue the two players realised they had many attitudes towards music in common: McMahon was attracted to music with “atmosphere” while Peter had become interested in composing music that evoked a sense of “place” after hearing Maurice Jarre’s 1962 score for the film Lawrence of Arabia. The two players made a vague promise to “do something in music together sometime in the future.

It was in 1967 that McMahon was able to blow off the right side of his body while experimenting using a homemade rocket in a backyard of a close friend in Seven Hills, a neighbouring suburb of Blacktown. In the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper report of the incident said that the person who was McMahon’s friend, Ron Carley, had several fingers removed, so it is likely that both of them were in the vicinity of the cylinder at the time of the explosion.

Charlie McMahon Net Worth

Charlie McMahon is one of the richest Musician from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Charlie McMahon 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

The year was 1955. Jedda was the very first Australian feature film shot in color, came out and the McMahons who resided within the Blue Mountains outside of Sydney were just one Australian family that went to the theater to watch the film. The film is noted as one of the very first major Australian film to feature Aboriginal actors playing leading roles, and for having characters who acknowledged the existence, and a connection to an indigenous culture.

In 1958, at seven years old In 1958, the McMahon family moved away from Blue Mountains to the tough outer western suburb of Blacktown close to Sydney However, McMahon was able to discover methods to “go bush” regularly.

One fateful weekend at Australia’s equivalent of Woodstock, the 1973 Nimbin Aquarius Festival, McMahon found himself intrigued by the performance of The White Company an experimental Theatre Troupe featuring a number of alternative culture artists including one Peter Carolan, a 25-year-old actor with roles in Australian TV’s Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, The Rovers, and stage productions such as Servant of Two Masters, and Graham Bond’s Drip Dry Dreams. Carolan came from a musical family. His mother played classical piano; his father was a professional jazz musician who performed on accordion, piano, organ, and synthesiser; and his paternal grandfather, Bart Carolan, was a composer and arranger who worked for a time at the BBC. The Carolan family had immigrated to Australia from England when Peter was 18. At the time his gift for creating flowing melodies “with spine” was noticed by McMahon, Carolan was playing lap dulcimer, an instrument to which he was attracted because of its simplicity – “a primal drone, a strummed rhythm and a monophonic melody that could change mode by tuning”. No direct communication between the two musicians was made at the festival but they had both noticed each other’s presence.

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In October 1984, shortly after the debut of the first album, McMahon went “on the swag” again, only to be caught up in a sensationalist media drama when a group of nine Aboriginals, known as the Pintupi Nine, were encountered near the last of a chain of water bores he had been overseeing between Kintore and “the remotest outpost in Australia”—Kiwirrkurra. A visiting journalist hyped the incident into a biblical “finding of the lost tribe” but the people concerned were not “lost” but had instead “gone walkabout” after rejecting attempts by 1950s Woomera rocket range personnel to resettle them at Papuna. The small tribal group managed to go through their usual birth, initiation, marriage, and death rituals for decades, living off the natural resources of their desert environment before “coming in” to face the anger, and relief, of their relatives. McMahon’s diary at the time noted “Tomorrow [16 Oct 1984] we will find the two men’s tracks and maybe they will spend their last night free of the modern world”.

Facts & Trivia

Charlie Ranked on the list of most popular Musician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Charlie McMahon celebrates birthday on June 19 of every year.

In November 1985, Midnight Oil commenced a 26-date local tour starting in Dubbo with Gondwanaland supporting. As well as feeding them to the mosh pit, this gave the newly constituted three piece some “tour of duty” exposure [if not exactly the type of audience they were hoping to attract].