Yilila
Yilila is the creation of Ngulmiya Nundhirribala, an accomplished singer, songwriter, songman, dancer and ceremony leader. Yilila mixes traditional Red Flag songs and stories with high energy reggae and rock music. The Red Flag songs tell the stories of the Makassan traders who traded with the Numburindi people of South East Arnhem for hundreds of years.
COLOURED STONE
Coloured Stone was founded in 1977 by frontman Bunna Lawrie on the Kooniba Mission in South Australia. Lawrie, along with two of his brothers, started out as a cover band playing small towns and settlements. In 1999 Lawrie became the first Aboriginal Australian to receive the coveted Don Banks Music Award.
NGULMIYA
Ngulmiya Nundhirribala is an iconic ceremony leader and songman from Arnhem Land with a godlike voice and presence. Ngulmiya shares improvisations on previously private ceremony songs and Dhumbala (Red Flag) songs and stories, that developed over centuries, through his family’s long relationship and history with the Makassan traders and sailors from SE Asia.
BLEKBALA MUJIK
Blekbala Mujik are an Australian rock, reggae group formed in Barunga, Northern Territory in 1986. They fuse rock and reggae with a pop, dance sound. The band sings in English and in Kriol (a creole language based on English and Australian Aboriginal languages). At the ARIA Music Awards of 1996 their album, Blekbala Mujik (May 1996), was nominated for Best Indigenous Release.
YUNG MILLA
Young. Hot. Formidable. This emerging rapper has already accrued a throng of staunch fans online and on the streets of Darwin’s southern suburbs.
Yung Milla is a loud and proud member of the Mak Mak Marranungu people, who are the traditional land owners of the Litchfield National Park area. He’s a gun with his pen having written, recorded and released three songs independently all of which have gained the attention of triplej unearthed. Expect to hear more from this kid.
*Music NT Award Finalist for HipHop/Rap Category
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