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  • Yothu Yindi in WOMADelaide artist lineup for 2026  

    Yothu Yindi in WOMADelaide artist lineup for 2026  

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    Programming an artist who has never had the opportunity to play at WOMADelaide Festival delivers a unique thrill for the event’s long-time director Ian Scobie. Announcing the first 49 artists for WOMADelaide 2026, Scobie says he is particularly excited about Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker. The remaining 15 performers will be announced in late…

  • Illuminate Adelaide review: Yothu Yindi

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    Lining up out the front of Hindley Street Music Hall, it was apparent that Yothu Yindi’s powerful lyrics and spiritually potent grooves connect to the younger generations as much as the older ones. The mix of faces waiting for the band’s appearance is a sign of their ongoing relevance as creators of music that is…

  • Illuminate Adelaide serves up a month of electric music this July

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    Co-directors of Illuminate Adelaide, Rachael Azzopardi and Lee Cumberlidge, programmed themselves into a corner last year. When you bring Gorillaz – one of the world’s biggest digital music acts – to Adelaide to play your festival, putting together an even bolder lineup for the next year becomes quite a challenge. But the duo says it…

  • Meet King Stingray: The Yolngu surf rock band walking two worlds

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    Hearing King Stingray’s music for the first time is like being dunked in the ocean. You’re submerged in the swell of harmonics created by contemporary instruments, such as Roy Kellaway’s salty surf-rock guitar, melded with millennia-old songlines and instruments. Keeping you tethered is the voice of Yirrŋa Yunupiŋu, who slips between English and Yolŋu Matha…