We acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong Boon Wurrung peoples and the extended clans of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners of the lands we gather on for ALWAYS LIVE. We recognise and celebrate their connection to songlines and Country, ceremony and story, and pay our respects to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders past and present.

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SAT 23 NOV

ALWAYS LIVE and Bush Music Fund

Ripple Effect Band Mayawa Album Tour with Amos Roach

Ripple Effect Band with Amos Roach and Nola Lauch

Pig & Whistle, Main Ridge

Dja Dja Wurrung country

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Sat 23 Nov

Pig & Whistle, Main Ridge
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Join Ripple Effect Band on the Victorian leg of their Album tour presented by ALWAYS LIVE, Artback and Bush Music Fund in November 2024, launching their debut album, Mayawa. Joined by special guest Amos Roach, this amazing group of women musicians from West Arnhem Land will entertain you with their infectious energy, stories and languages from their home community of Maningrida.

This event proudly supports Support Act, our charity partner. For every ticket sold, $1 will go directly to Support Act to help them provide crucial support to musicians, managers, crew, and music workers facing health issues, injury, or other crises. Your contribution helps keep the music community strong! Donate here

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RIPPLE EFFECT BAND ARE AN ALL WOMAN'S BAND COMING FROM MANINGRIDA IN ARNHEM LAND, NORTHERN TERRITORY. 

Whilst following in the tradition of saltwater rock from the top end, they are forging new ground and a new sound as the first women from their community to play instruments and make their own band. They sing in the languages of their people, Ndjébbana, Burarra, Na-kara and Kune and they have a story to tell about their land, their languages and their culture. 

Ripple Effect Band have garnered widespread acclaim for their work forging new ground and sound. After kick-starting their career together with tours to Arnhem Land Bak’bididi and Gattjirrk Festivals in 2017, they soon travelled to Eora/Sydney to record their debut EP, Wárrwarra, alongside producers Paul Mac, Clint Bracknell and long-term collaborator, Jodie Kell. Independently released in 2018, the 4-track project included the first song to be recorded in the highly endangered Na-Kara language “Hunting Song”, alongside the moving “Diyama (Mermaid Song)”. Since, the band has embarked on national tours to festivals such as Barunga, Garma, Nannup, Mona Foma, Darwin Festival, East Arnhem Live — supporting Regurgitator and WOMADelaide, while selling out their own headline shows in Eora/Sydney, Garamilla/Darwin and Naarm/Melbourne. 

Ripple Effect Band

Amos Roach is a proud Ngarrandjerri/ Djab Wurrung/Gunditj Mara man.

His music presents a narrative of healing, told with song and dance. Amos’s voice travels between the Desert, the Riverland and the Saltwater to the city like smoke from a fire. Amos is a cultural practitioner. Traditional First Nations culture informs the fundamentals of his craft. His music is part of the song-line that connects peopleandCountry. Hisdancesreconnectcountrytoculture.

Everything Amos does is music. If he is not playing an instrument, he is listening and exploring new sounds. Amos Roach, Bachelor of Music Concert, May 2019. Photo by Len Shepard. Australian Reggae imagines a fusion of traditional and contemporary indigenous music. Amos plays his own songs, founded in rhythm with the Didgeridoo and Flamenco influenced Rap music, family ballads and Rock that shakes the ground and compels us to dance. A lilt of smoke, the Riverland echoes and we can feel the sand and saltwater rushing through the veins of Amos’s voice as he carries the song lines from the desert to our ears.

Amos Roach

Nola Lauch

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