ALWAYS LIVE and Songlines present
ALWAYS LIVE AT Northcote Social Club Celebrating Songlines 30th Anniversary Show
With Richard Franklin Band, Leonie Whyman, Crooked TP, Sky Shaw and Dylan Kerr
Northcote Social Club
Wurundjeri-willam Country
Ticket Information
Sun 08 Dec
Come with us to celebrate 30 years of Blak excellence throughout the ages with Richard Franklin's band leading the way accompanied by artists that fully represent the vast ever changing timeline of what Songlines have accomplished through our 30th years of being black proud and deadly. Come along to this free event and have a shake a leg and boogie to some of the most diverse and exceptional first nations music Melbourne has to offer, as part of the ALWAYS LIVE line up. All are welcome to come celebrate with us as we reach this amazing milestone of representing and showcasing the deep richness of our culture through music – exclusive to Victoria. We can't wait to see you there!
Artists
Richard Frankland is a Gunditjmara man, Koytpa Koy Koy Mara. A story man. An art-warrior.
His fifth album , “Discovering Leerpeen Mara” is a reimagining of Richard Frankland’s life map of songs. It features new songs like the achingly beautiful Freycinet Line and new recordings/arrangements of some of Richard’s older work like "Cry Freedom" set to the beats of NZ DJ Quix, the extraordinary guitar work of fellow Gunditjmara man Lee Sonnyboy Morgan and the brilliant didgeridoo, sound effects and beats of Larrakia man Ash Dargan.
The songs, stories and language depict humanistic issues relevant to the First Nation experience from past and present.
Frankland is Koytpa Koy Koy Mara. A story man. An art-warrior. Songs like " Lawbreaker “ and “Too Many Gods” are his weapons. His words, the beats. The album keeps its groove on with "Who Will Sing My Songs.” Frankland answers the question with an affirmative uplifting resolution while "The Trilogy" reimagines an old song of Richard’s “Who Made Me Who I Am “ and twists it into a mesmerising stomping truth telling which is at once soulful and the next taking off with Richard’s unearthly throat singing.. "River to the Sea” is hauntingly beautiful and transports the listener to Leerpeen Mara’s world. The songs, stories and language depict humanistic issues relevant to the First Nation experience from past and present. The final track on the album features dreams of a "Tomorrow Australia, Richard's spoken word opus that is part Frank Zappa and part unlike anything you’ve ever heard before.
