BUSBY MAROU
Appearing at: Munro Martin Parklands, Cairns (Thursday 25 August)
BUSBY MAROU are Rockhampton duo Thomas Busby and Jeremy Marou. Their meaningful lyrics, melodic guitar riffs and delightful harmonies have seen them win over fans and critics alike and they have gained the reputation as one of Australia’s hardest-working live bands, best known for their distinctly Australian storytelling and gifted musicianship. Their success includes four ARIA-charting albums. Their 2010 self-titled album is certified gold, while their most recent albums The Great Divide and Farewell Fitzroy debuted in the Top 5, and Postcards From The Shell House was Busby Marou’s first ARIA Number 1 album. They have been nominated for multiple ARIA awards, have won 4 APRA awards, as well as The Triffid’s “Queensland Album of the Year” award, multiple Queensland Music Awards and 2010’s Deadly Award for “Most Promising New Talent”. They have millions of global streams across their four album releases. The band recently released ‘Days Like This’ and 2022’s ‘Everything Is Beautiful’.

EMILY WURRAMARA (SOLO)
Appearing at: Fellows Oval – ANU Campus, Canberra (Saturday 1 October)
EMILY WURRAMARA originates from Groote Eylandt in the Northern Territory and is an AIR award-winning, six-time Queensland Music Award winner and ARIA-nominated artist. In 2018 Emily released an 11-track album Milyakburra, educating and informing in both English and Anindilyakwa languages. The critically acclaimed album features the emotive Lady Blue and Black Smoke. Emily has performed on many global stages and has toured and played with iconic artists including Archie Roach, Mavis Staples, John Farnham, Missy Higgins, Jessica Mauboy, John Butler and more. Described as “one of music’s most inspiring Indigenous role models”, Emily recently released ‘Ayarra Emeba (Calm Songs)’ EP.

GOANNA
Appearing at: Nikola Estate, Perth (Sunday 25 September) – a day on the green
In the 1980s, GOANNA’s debut album, Spirit of Place, helped forge a new Australian identity. The iconic Solid Rock stoked a fire for Indigenous rights that hasn’t gone out, while the anthemic Let The Franklin Flow was a call to arms for Australia’s emerging environmental movement. Goanna released three studio albums: 1982’s Spirit of Place, 1985’s Oceania and 1998’s Spirit Returns. Soulful, lyrical, political, humane and brimming with musicality, originality and creative volatility, Australia has never produced a group like Goanna, before or since. In 2022, forty years after their debut album, Shane Howard, Rose Bygrave, Marcia Howard and Graham Davidge, with special guests, are reliving those treasures, as they embark on Celebrating 40 Years Of Spirit Of Place – a year of paying homage to the Goanna spirit again.

GOANNA – COUNTDOWN

KING STINGRAY
Appearing at: Fellows Oval – ANU Campus, Canberra (Saturday 1 October)
Yirrŋa Yunupiŋu (vocals), Roy Kellaway (guitarist), Dimathaya Burarrwanga (guitarist), Campbell Messer (bass) and Lewis Stiles (drums) make up the Australian indie, pop-rock band KING STINGRAY. Hailing from the small town of Yirrkala (NT), the band perform in both English and Yolŋu Matha – the traditional language of the indigenous people of northeast Arnhem Land in northern Australia – and describe their sound as ‘Yolŋu surf rock.’ King Stingray released their debut single Hey Wanhaka in 2020 before taking out the title of triple j Unearthed Artist of the Year in 2021. Their follow up singles Get Me Out (2021) and Milkumana (2021) made waves in the local music scene when they charted in the 2021 triple j Hottest 100 taking out places #46 and #56 respectively. The band recently released ‘Let’s Go’ and a sublime version of Coldplay’s ‘Yellow’ for triple j’s Like A Version.

LEAH FLANAGAN
Appearing at: Convention Centre, Darwin (Saturday 27 August)
Originating from Darwin, Leah Flanagan grew up in a household filled with music and culture – boasting a proud Italian, Indigenous (Alyawarre) and Irish heritage that she credits as early influences to her sound. Flanagan’s latest album ‘Colour By Number’ is out now through her own Darwin based, Indigenous owned and operated label Small Change Records. The album features the singles ‘Aralia’, ‘Starlight’ and the self-titled track ‘Colour By Number’.

Photo Credit: Natalie Jurrjens

MOANING LISA
Appearing at: Fellows Oval – ANU Campus, Canberra (Saturday 1 October)
Moaning Lisa is composed of Charlie Versegi (singer/guitarist), Hayley Manwaring (singer/bassist) Ellen Chan (lead guitarist) and Hayden Fritzlaff (drummer). Renowned for creating an atmosphere entirely of their own, the band deftly combines a garage rock, grunge fantasy with ‘one massive, cosy, accepting love-fest’ (Rush On Rock). It is this live prowess which has landed them support slots for DZ Deathrays, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever and Mitski as well as slots at some of the country’s most prestigious festival such as; Splendour in the Grass, Falls Festival, Yours and Owls and Kennedy’s Creek Festival.

Singles include ‘Inadequacy’, ‘Carrie (I Want A Girl)’, ‘Good’ and ‘Something’.

STEPHEN PIGRAM
Appearing at: Nikola Estate, Perth (Sunday 25 September) – a day on the green
From the pearling town of Broome in the south-west Kimberley region of Western Australia, home of the Gularrabulu nation, Yawuru-Jugun jabi wamba, singer/songwriter/musician Stephen Pigram is probably best known for his work with six of his siblings in the Pigram Brothers (1997-2017) band. He was also a member of the seminal 1980’s Broome bands Kuckles and Scrap Metal and was musical director and co-writer of Jimmy Chi’s “Bran Nue Dae” (1990) and “Corrugation Road” (1997). Stephen now steps out solo armed with his guitar, ukulele & harmonica performing songs from his two solo CD releases – Wanderer (2013) and Solfish (2021), as well as local cult classics.

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