Darwin fick

Musician Emily Wurramara is a Warnindilyakwa woman from Groote Eylandt and Bickerton Island in the Northern Territory . Wurramara has deep roots in the two Gulf of Carpentaria islands, dating back to her grandmother and grandfather, who both grew up on Groote and Bickerton. In a new video produced by Rolling Stone Australia and Tourism NT, Wurramara shares her affection for the islands’ natural wonders and the cultural highlights of the NT. Growing up on Groote Eylandt and Bickerton Island, Wurramara spent a lot of time at the beach. “The water for us is very sacred,” she says. “A lot of the men in my family are hunters, so they’d go on the beach, on the canoes, and they’d go hunting for turtle, for dugong or for stingray.” A lot of Warnindilyakwa songlines run through the sea. Songlines are essentially directions for travel held within Indigenous songs. Generations of First Nations people have memorised songs in order to reach certain destinations. Songlines also … [Read more...] about Emily Wurramara’s Guide to Travelling the NT

Rolling Stone Australia’s Up In IT video series began with two guides to the Top End from artists who were born, bred and maintain deep roots in the North Territory: folk songwriter and Warnindilyakwa woman, Emily Wurramara , and Yolŋu surf-rock outfit, King Stingray . Jack River’s guide to the NT is a little different—River is a New South Welsh indie-pop artist who got to know the NT while on tour. “Often when you’re touring it’s easy to stick to the plan and stay for a night and fly back home, but as soon as I got to Darwin I realised that there was this whole other world that I hadn’t been aware of in my own country,” River says. River was raised in Forster, NSW, on Worimi country, and now lives in Mollymook, NSW, on Yuin country. She visited Darwin for last year’s BASSINTHEGRASS Music Festival, appearing alongside the likes of Peking Duk, Violent Soho and Missy Higgins. River decided to stay in the NT for an extra week after the festival. She hopped in … [Read more...] about Jack River’s Guide to the Northern Territory

J-MILLA’s Jacob Nichaloff is a proud Mak Mak Marranunggu man who was born in Darwin in the late 1990s. Nichaloff wrote his first bars at age 11. He launched the J-MILLA project in 2017 and released his first single, “My People,” a song about racial discrimination and the path to reconciliation, in 2018. Racial discrimination is a recurring topic in J-MILLA’s work. Nichaloff has experienced intergenerational trauma throughout his life, but he finds solace in music. His releases are strongly influenced by contemporary hip hop and R&B, while also drawing on the storytelling traditions of his cultural ancestors. In a new video produced by Rolling Stone Australia and Tourism NT , J-MILLA speaks about his favourite places in the NT, from Darwin and nearby Marranunggu land to Kings Canyon and the APY Lands across the South Australian border. “The Mak Mak Marranunggu people are from Litchfield National Park region, and also out in Bamboo Creek and Batchelor,” says … [Read more...] about J-MILLA’s Guide to the Northern Territory