Description
The Queen of the Bandaral Ngadu, Kankawa Nagarra plays Tumbarumba at Nest Cinema Cafe on the 31st of October. This will be part of a national tour to promote her new album ‘Wirlmarni’.
Kankawa Nagarra is a Walmatjarri Elder, teacher and mentor, human rights advocate, and a passionate environmental activist, born in the traditional lands of the Gooniyandi and Walmatjarri peoples of north WA. She sings in the Aboriginal Australian blues, country, and gospel styles and writes songs filled with empathy about the great struggles she sees around her.
Archer will perform an opening set of his own folk songs, and will join Kankawa for a couple of numbers too. He has been described as a country blues crooner poet and is a truly captivating live performer. Darren Hanlon will sit in with Kankawa on guitar and lend a few harmonies as well.
In July last year her friends Archer and Darren Hanlon traveled to her home community of Wangkatjungka to record a collection of her songs on Country that became her first vinyl LP. Kankawa chose specific locations between there and Fitzroy Crossing that held meaning to her and the songs she chose to sing. The centrepiece title track song ‘Wirlmarni’, which means ‘disappearing’, is a plaintive duet between Kankawa and Archer and laments the passing of the great tribal men that she remembers fondly.
For the Tumbarumba show Darren Hanlon will conduct a Q & A with Kankawa, which will give the audience insight into her incredible life journey.
Children under 12 are free
Pre Show Dinner Bookings and Bar open 5:30pm at Nest
Call 6948 2950 to book a table
7pm Doors
7.30 Music