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Tagged: Indigenous musicians
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This audio clip is an excerpt from an oral history interview with Vic Simms, Aboriginal musician and songwriter. He is talking to Brenda Gifford as part of the NFSA First Voices program.
In the early...
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Archie Roach, in conversation with Daniel Browning for the Indigenous ABC Radio National program AWAYE!, talks about Louis St John Johnson.
Louis was a young Aboriginal man who was brutally murdered...
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This clip is taken from an exclusive interview with the NFSA from the online exhibition Archie Roach: His Story in Song.
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Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter talk about their experiences as members of the Stolen Generations. Archie was forcibly separated from his family, who were living at the Framlingham Mission in Victoria,...
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This clip of home movie footage shows Ruby Hunter recording vocals for the song 'Louis St John' from the 1997 album Looking For Butterboy.
Archie wrote the song about the racially-motivated murder of...
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Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter perform live, accompanied by the Deadly Band (Archie Cuthbertson, Kerry Gilmartin and Dave Steel), and introduced by Annette Shun Wah on series four of Studio 22.
The...
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This is an excerpt of a live performance of the song 'Love in the Morning' from Archie's 1993 album Jamu Dreaming. The clip comes from Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter: Cape York, 1997.
The quality of...
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In this clip, Ruby Hunter offers a frank retelling of her beginnings in the music industry. It includes footage of her and Archie Roach singing a live version of Archie's song, 'No No No' from his...
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In this excerpt from an unidentified episode of ICAM (Indigenous Cultural Affairs Magazine) in 2000, Ruby Hunter talks about the dynamic between her and partner Archie Roach.
It's a delightful...
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Cruising in Fitzroy, multi – ARIA Award winner Dan Sultan joins Kutcha for Episode 4 of Kutcha's Carpool Koorioke as they belt out the bluesy melodies of Kutcha's 'Roll With the Rhythm'.
Dan talks...