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RocKwiz is delighted to have been invited to be part of Leaps and Bounds, Stand Up for NAIDOC Week festivities.
Julia and Brian will be bringing their unique brand of entertainment to showcase local artists and highlight the unique Australian musical voice of our First People.
Special guests and the RocKwiz OrKestra will make this show one not to miss.
RocKwiz is proud to Get up! Stand up! Show up! For NAIDOC 2022.
Featuring:
Deborah Cheetham AO
Deborah Cheetham, Yorta Yorta woman, soprano, composer and Artistic Director, has been a leader and pioneer in the Australian arts landscape for more than 25 years. In the 2014 Queen’s Birthday Honours List, Cheetham was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO).
Deborah Cheetham’s list of commissions for major Australian ensembles including works for the Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and West Australian Symphony orchestras, the Australian String Quartet, Rubiks Collective, The Sydney Philharmonia, Plexus Collective, the Flinders Quartet and the Goldner Quartet.
Awards and acknowledgements include; Sir Bernard Heinze Memorial Award for service to music in Australia, the Merlyn Myer Prize for Composition, induction onto the Victorian Aboriginal Honour Roll and
Women’s Honour Roll of Victoria, Melbourne Recital Centre Life Time Membership, 2019 Melbourne Prize for Music, Limelight Magazine’s Critics Choice Artist of the Year and The Helpmann JC Williamson award for life time service to the arts.
In 2020 Deborah Cheetham was the 2020 Composer-in-residence for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and commenced her appointment at the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, Monash University as Professor of Music practice.
In 2021 Deborah Cheetham began a five year appointed as First Nations Chair of Melbourne Symphony orchestra.
Dallas Woods
In the four years since he’s been releasing music, Dallas has used his songwriting as a powerful platform to speak about his experiences in life as an Indigenous man, the justice system, racial stereotyping and his own personal struggles.
With a no holding back approach to writing, the 26 year old uses wit and wordplay to get his messages out, weaving comments on big issues into rapid-fire rhymes.
Mentoring Baker Boy through his entire career and having huge moments himself through 20-21 with his recent releases. ‘Stranger feat. Kee'ahn’ follows on from a string of impressive singles released over the past year including ‘If It Glitters It’s Gold’, Baker Boy and Sampa The Great collab ‘Better Days’ and ‘Heaven Of My Own feat. Miiesha’, which were all added to high JJJ rotation and won praise from NME Australia, Acclaim Magazine, Pilerats, Music Feeds and Purple Sneakers, among others.
In 2020, Dallas was part of The State of Music’s ‘Introducing’ series where he was dubbed “a great word man and rhymer” by the legendary Archie Roach and performed on ABC’s The Sound.
A skilful songwriter, his efforts on Baker Boy single 'Meditjin' were recently awarded second place in the Vanda & Young Global Songwriting Competition. More recently Dallas Woods received props for the throw back reworked version of Fat Joe and Ashanti’s ‘Whats Luv’ for triple J Like a Version.
Kee’ahn
2020 was a huge debut year for rising music star Kee'ahn. Releasing her debut single in the middle of the Covid lockdown in late May 2020 was always going to be a challenge but this songstress from the tropics of Far North QLD rose to the occasion and surpassed all expectations with her soulful track Better Things.
The single almost immediately thrust her into the Australian music psyche with its message becoming a mantra for many struggling through the challenges of lock down and a changed world.
Effortlessly blending the sounds of soul, R&B and pop throughout her music, Kee'ahn weaves lush melodies and words reminiscent of heartbreak and healing. Her rich vocals and hopeful lyrics champion the idea that finding strength in our struggles, encourages us to reflect, reinvent, and rejoice in all of our own individual healing journeys.
Kee'ahn is a proud Kuku Yalanji, Jirrbal, Zenadth Kes song woman who has recently ventured from her home town in Far North QLD, to pursue her dream in the Kulin Nation (Melbourne, Australia).
With a name coming from the Wik people, meaning to dance, to sing, to play - Kee’ahn aims to honour her name and Ancestors through her soulful music “As a First Nations woman, my connection to music is strong because of my connection to my culture. I come from a long line of disruptors. My matriarchs were told to quieten their voices, but our stories were always shared and heard. My voice and my music allows me to connect to my Ancestors and to my purpose"
In the time since the release of the single Kee'ahn has been so busy that’s it become difficult for her to do anything removed from music. A NAIDOC Week program saw Kee’ahn play shows for TikTok (Aust) an ABC on line concert, she was selected to be one of the three collaborators for the 2020 Triple J Unearthed Naidoc Week collaboration along with a BIGSOUND Spotify showcase, curating the opening night program for Melbourne Music Week, taking part in a US Instagram Creators campaign, performing as part of the channel 9 broadcast of THE STATE OF THE NATION concert and the Delivered Live Youtube TV show as well as a raft of other online appearances and shows.
BETTER THINGS was playlisted on Double J, Triple J Unearthed, ABC Local Radio, 2SER, EDGE Radio, and played on Triple J amongst many other media reviews and airplay. She has picked up Management representation, Agency representation, Brand representation as well as a swag of awards and nominations along the way. 2021 will see her showcase for Both the US Folk Alliance 'Folk Unlocked' international conference in January and SXSW International Conference in late February.
2020 Winner Archie Roach Award, National Indigenous Music Awards (NIMAs)
2020 Finalist, New Talent of the Year (NIMAs)
2020 Finalist, Song of The Year (NIMAs)
2020 Winner Music Vic Awards 2020 for Best Emerging Artist
Bart Willoughby
Pioneering Indigenous performer Bart Willoughby first came to prominence in the Late 70’s in the Band No Fixed Address. Born on the Koonibba Mission in Ceduna South Australia a Pitantjatjara man of the Kuthatha tribe on his father’s side and Mirning through his mother. Known for singing from behind his kit in No Fixed Address.
Penning such anthems as We Have Survived Black mans Rights and Aboriginal Woman he developed a unique style fusing reggae rock and pacific rhythms creating his on place within the reggae music genre. Touring with Peter Tosh and the Clash performing with John Trudel his lyrics giving a voice to the to the plight and fight for rights of his people No Fixed Address were the first indigenous band to tour internationally sign a record deal, appearing in the ground breaking Docu -Drama Wrong Side of the Road in 1981. For a time he joined his cousin Bunna Lawrie in Coloured Stone until forming Mixed Relations in the 90’s in 1993 Willoughby received the Inaugural Aria Life Time Achievement Award for his contribution to Indigenous Music
Over his 40 years in the music industry Willoughby has continued to travel Internationally and Nationally promoting his music and culture. More recently he has been The Black Arm Band, performing at London’s Barbican Theatre providing music for the Malt house Theatres production of The Shadow King. He performs both as a solo artist and as band leader of The Bart Willoughby Band .
In 2013 he released an Album We Still Live on recorded on the Melbourne Town Hall Organ. The first indigenous artist to do so in, 2014 receiving the Australia Council Fellowship to tour the album. In 2016 Willoughby along with the original line-up of No Fixed Address were inducted into the South Australian Music Hall of Fame In May 2016 he recorded in The Bungle Bungles with Stephen Pigram releasing the Album Resonance in 2017 and toured the album with a showcase at the Fitzroy Town Hall in 2018 in 2020 A street was named in honour of his first Band of Adelaide’s Rundle Mall No Fixed Address Lane and a book is currently being written on the band.
Willoughby is currently recording a new Album and has continued to perform live performances both as a solo performer and band leader in No Fixed address and the Bart Willoughby Band With recurring engagements with the VCA were he has been passing on his knowledge to the next generation of musicians along with being part of a new ideas lab commission Art Play to deliver a series of workshops The Colour and Sound of my Totem in 2022 and is part of the Blacktivism production touring the country. He is currently performing as part of the WB Express with long time collaborator Selwyn Burns and Tjimba Possum Burns
William Barton
William Barton is Australia’s leading didgeridoo player as well as composer, instrumentalist and vocalist.
William started learning the instrument from his first learnt the uncle, Arthur Peterson, an elder of the Wannyi, Lardil and Kalkadunga people and was working from an early age with traditional dance groups and fusion/rock jazz bands, orchestras, string quartets, and mixed ensembles.
Throughout his diverse career he has forged a path in the classical musical world, from the London and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras to historic events at Westminster Abbey for Commonwealth Day 2019, at Anzac Cove in Gallipoli and for the Beijing Olympics.
His awards include Winner of Best Original Score for a Mainstage Production at the 2018 Sydney Theatre Awards and Winner of Best Classical Album with an ARIA for Birdsong At Dusk in 2012. In 2021 he was the recipient of the prestigious Don Banks Music Award from the Australia Council.
With his prodigious musicality and building on his Kalkadunga heritage, William has vastly expanded the horizons of the didgeridoo.
Rockwiz is supported by the Victorian Government COVIDSafe Outdoor Activation Fund.
