First Nations artists to join Midnight Oil for WOMADelaide show

Dan Sultan, Alice Skye and Troy Cassar-Daley are among the First Nations singers who will join Midnight Oil for their Makarrata Live concert at WOMADelaide next month.

Live music night TREATY to take over Tandanya

A slate of emerging and established Indigenous musicians will perform live at Tandanya this November in a deadly new event.

No Fixed Address given permanent CBD address

Ahead of the City of Adelaide naming a laneway in honour of South Australian reggae band No Fixed Address, CityMag spoke with guitarist Ricky Harrison about coming up as an Indigenous artist in Adelaide’s 1980s music scene.

“You got a habit of telling lies”

Young Bidjara woman Jessica Wishart is one of five First Nations musicians in SA sharing new songs in a virtual event responding to the theme ‘Always Was, Always Will Be’ – and she’s got a strong message about the habits of white Australia.

‘Ruby’ – a perfect marriage of instruments and song

Indigenous singer Nancy Bates has joined musicians from the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra for a moving Virtual Concert Hall performance that blends a 60,000-plus-year-old songwriting tradition with classical instruments.

Deadly line-up for Cabaret Festival concert

Musicians including Thelma Plum and Baker Boy will perform at a Deadly Hearts celebration of Indigenous music at this year’s Adelaide Cabaret Festival.