The Festival and its mulanggari banner come to a close with a celebration of the oldest living culture on earth.

For more than twenty years, the Stiff Gins have sung in language about Indigenous culture and women’s empowerment. Now, in a unique Festival collaboration, Kaleena and Nardi join forces with Dudok Quartet Amsterdam to perform the Gin’s tender songs like you’ve never heard them before - arranged by jazz legend Jonathan Zwartz. Three percussionists bring Holly Harrison’s new trio to life, while William Barton and Véronique Serret summon a final moment of magic alongside works by Nardi Simpson and Yuin composer Brenda Gifford.

As the curtain falls on Roland’s decade-long tenure at the helm of the Festival, some of his closest musical collaborators join forces to mark the end of an era and to set the tone for the future.

PROGRAM

Stiff Gins + Dudok Quartet, selection of songs by Jonathan Zwartz and others

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Walimbaya (return)
Music by Brenda Gifford 2022 for Ben Ward as part of the Bundian Way
commissioned by CIMF

Feature Creature (WP)
Music for three percussionists by Holly Harrison 2023/24
commissioned by CIMF

Wadhu (skin)
Music by Brenda Gifford 2023
Merlyn Myer Music Commission

Burruguu (time of creation)
Music by Nardi Simpson 2021
Written for Ensemble Offspring as part of Ngarra Burria

Yarrager Mayraa
Words & Music by Nardi Simpson
Arranged by Jonathan Zwartz and Roland Peelman

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