Live in Concert: Kankawa, Archer and Darren Hanlon
Event description
A Feast of Live Music in Katherine
Live in Concert. Fri 8 August 2025 6.30pm
Kankawa Nagarra - A Walmatjarri Elder, international blues and gospel singer-songwriter, teacher and mentor, human rights advocate, and political activist, Kankawa, from the Kimberley sings in Walmatjarri, Kimberley Creole and English and other known and lost languages. Kankawa toured Europe and the U.S as a member of the Hugh Jackman Broadway show.
Darren Hanlon is an Australian singer-songwriter. Hanlon was a member of Lismore indie rock band The Simpletons, contributed backing guitar and keyboards for The Lucksmiths, The Dearhunters, and Mick Thomas. Hanlon describes his style of music as "urban folk,"[2] and has been described by Pitchfork as having "distinctive narrative vision" in his music.
Archer - His music rolls around folk, country and blues with a tinge of gospel and feels like the tales of a travelling vagrant hitchhiking through the American Deep South during the ‘50s.
Katherine Regional Arts
19 Second St Katherine. Enter from O’Shea Tce
$25 Tickets at door or book on Humanitix
eo@katherineregionalarts.org.au 0488 999 901
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