Country music legend Roger Knox — known as the Black Elvis and the Koori King of Country — is set to be inducted into the National Indigenous Music Awards (NIMA) Hall of Fame. NIMA organisers […]
When Alice Springs Indigenous hip hop duo Karnage N Darknis and Melbourne rock band Chocolate Starfish got together in the Red Centre to record a new version of the latter’s 90s hit Mountain, they turned […]
The late Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu is posthumously leading the field of finalists at this year’s Indigenous music night of nights almost a year after his death. A list of finalists in the 2018 National Indigenous […]
Up-and-coming country music singer-songwriter Angus Gill was in Year 11 at school when the plight of the Stolen Generation moved him so greatly that he felt the urge to write a song about it. The-then […]
Jessica Mauboy’s song for the Eurovision song contest has been getting the thumbs up from online listeners around the world. The song, ‘We Got Love’, is up on the Eurovision website. Listener reviews include top-three […]
Some of Australia’s biggest Aboriginal music stars will take to the red gorges of Karijini next month. Archie Roach, Deborah Cheetham and Gina Williams will be among the line-up at the sixth annual Karijini Experience, […]
The last album of Australia’s highest selling Indigenous musician, the late Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, will be released next month just ahead of a documentary about his remarkable life. Both the album Djarimirri – or ‘Child […]
These days singer-songwriter Emily Wurramara has a new audience for her music — her daughter K’iigari. Wurramara says the baby girl, born on Boxing Day, has given her a new perspective on life and music. […]
Some of Australia’s most recognisable names in Indigenous music have released a song in memory of 14-year-old Elijah Doughty, whose death in Western Australia last year sparked riots in the Goldfields town of Kalgoorlie and […]
As a kid, Zaachariaha Fielding would wander around Mimili, a small Aboriginal community in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands in South Australia, whistling and humming. Nowadays he plays on a bigger stage as one half […]
NATIONAL INDIGENOUS TIMES 2018
