Former deep-water pearl shell diver Seaman Dan will bring a bit of “Island Way” to this year’s CQU Multicultural Fair and Open Day.

Seaman has just released his new Oceania-focused tribute CD “Island Way” and promises to perform some of his new tracks on Sunday.

The album, a follow-up to his ARIA Award-netting 2004 album, 'Perfect Pearl', features Hawaiian hulas, a Fijian chant and a song written by a descendant of Bounty mutineer Fletcher Christian and sung in Norfolk Island dialect.

Taking the 76-year-old out of his usual 'crooner' style, the album also features a reggae and rap combo titled Ailan Man in which the rap component is courtesy of Seaman’s 24-year-old grandson.

Seaman is Australia’s oldest ARIA winner and last year won the Red Ochre Award, recognising Seaman’s great contribution to Torres Strait Islander arts and culture, both nationally and internationally.

Although Seaman had been steeped in the music and culture of the Torres Strait and tropical Australia thanks to long stints as a pearl shell diver and boat skipper in the Coral, Arafura and Timor Seas, he had never been recorded professionally until seven years ago.

That changed when Seaman teamed up with CQU researcher and music producer Dr Karl Neuenfeldt.

The pair started working together on his first CD, 'Follow the Sun', and eventually had enough success to record 'Steady, Steady' and then 'Perfect Pearl'.

Seaman Dan and Dr Neuenfeldt have been conducting music workshops for school groups this week as a lead up to the Fair.

Don’t mission Seaman Dan’s performance at 2pm on the main stage.

Photo above: Karl Neuenfeldt and Seaman Dan will bring “island” music to this year’s Fair.

Left: Seaman Dan's latest album "Island Way".