Emma Donovan (front, far right) and The Putbacks will perform on Maui on Saturday. The band burst onto the Australian scene with their 2014 album “Dawn,” a project born of their shared love for ...
When he was 10 years old, Peter D. Harper’s family moved from the United Kingdom to Perth, Australia. He developed an interest in the didgeridoo music that he heard indigenous Aboriginal musicians ...
The most remarkable feature of Gurrumul, the recent first album by Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, is the blind Australian indigenous singer’s extraordinary voice. Variously described by music writers as ...
Six-time Grammy Award-winner and Honolulu native Daniel Ho is best known for his performances on ukulele, slack key guitar, piano, and vocals. Now based in Los Angeles, his multifaceted career ...
‘The Sapphires,” an unlikely salute to ­Motown from Down Under, celebrates the true story of four young ­Aboriginal Australian ­women who toured Vietnam in the late ’60s to entertain U.S. troops. The ...
On this week’s Global Notes, music journalist and host of Beat Latino, Catalina Maria Johnson, will play some us some of her favorite tunes from indigenous and aboriginal artists around the globe- ...
It’s unlikely that the average U.S. citizen could name a single North American indigenous film or actor, musician or album, book or author (excluding, maybe, Sherman Alexie). But the Canadian-bred hip ...
I often wonder if the land gets lonely for people; if it remembers a time where it felt our ancestors’s energy flowing over it freely and beneath its concrete scars, and waits for our return. If this ...
As a celebration of cultural identity, the Aboriginal musical "Bran Nue Dae" has so much feel-good fizz that you can almost overlook its rickety construction. By Megan Lehmann, The Associated Press ...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names and images of deceased people. Following on from the failed referendum, this year’s NAIDOC theme, “Keep the fire ...
The singer/guitarist/producer will play in Montreal as part of APTN's cross-Canada Aboriginal Day Live celebrations on Wednesday, June 21. Daniel Lanois will complement his pedal-steel guitar setup ...