The Adelaide Cabaret Festival in association with HOTA Home of the Arts & ABC Music today announced Deadly Hearts: A celebration of Australian Indigenous music.
From the hearts and mouths of Australia’s next generation of First Nations artists and inspired by ABC Music’s Deadly Hearts albums, the concert will take place on June 7 and features Thelma Plum, Baker Boy, Tia Gostelow, and Aodhan.
Adelaide Cabaret Festival Artistic. Director, Julia Zemiro, is delighted that the Deadly Hearts lineup will be part of the festival’s 20th Anniversary Program.
“It’s a new generation of music blooming and bursting through onto the Festival Theatre stage,” says Zemiro. “I can’t wait to welcome these Deadly Hearts to Cabaret in 2020.”
Acclaimed singer-songwriter and seasoned performer, Thelma Plum is a 25-year-old Gamilaraay woman, musician and creator. Her ARIA Award winning debut album Better In Blak bursts with astonishing strength, courage and heartbreaking tenderness, capturing so deftly what it’s like to be a young Aboriginal woman in Australia.
“Can’t wait to get back to Adelaide for Deadly Hearts – it’s been too long since I’ve played there,” says Plum.”It’s great Baker Boy and I get to team up again.”
Australia’s freshest new hip-hop talent Baker Boy was born in Darwin and raised in the remote Northern Territory communities of Milingimbi and Maningrida. Danzal Baker, aka Baker Boy, raps in Yolngu Matha language and English. Winner of the 2019 National Indigenous Music Award (NIMA) Artist of the Year and Young Australian of the Year, Baker Boy inspires younger generations to embrace their culture and become leaders in their communities.
“I can’t wait to head over to Adelaide for Deadly Hearts. Adelaide always has such great crowds, with loads of energy, I love performing there,” he says. “It’s amazing to get to perform alongside a line-up of deadly Indigenous artists and get to celebrate our stories together.”
Singer-songwriter Tia Gostelow has been making waves since she released her debut album Thick Skin which won Album of the Year at the Queensland Music Awards. The album also scored Triple J’s feature album and saw her sell out a national headline tour in Australia. Gostelow grew up in the regional QLD town of Mackay and at 18 moved to Brisbane where she is well and truly part of the Brisbane music community.
At just 15, Aodhan won Triple J’s Unearthed High Indigenous Initiative with his self-produced song When Your Eyes Speak. The Dharawal singer-songwriter fuses heartfelt writing with soulful musicality to create coastal-folk flavoured tunes.
Stay tuned for Adelaide Cabaret Festival’s full program launch on March 31.
Deadly Hearts will take place on June at 3pm (doors open at 2:30pm) at Adelaide Festival Centre’s Festival Theatre.
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