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Boomerang Festival program announced By Chyss Carr
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his week Boomerang Festival – a new world Indigenous Festival for all Australians, to be held at Tyagarah Tea Farm (long weekend Fri 4 – Sun 6 Oct) in Byron Bay (the home of Bluesfest) announces its Full Festival Program. A further array of exciting musicians, artists, films, speakers and workshops has been added and Boomerang Festival, is quickly becoming a date on the calendar not to be missed. Visitors to the Festival will be treated to some 133 performances and experiences from music to workshops, fire gatherings, dance participations and conversations with some unexpected surprises. No other Australian event quite matches the number of Indigenous performers including some 70 clans group represented from across Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia With its diverse list of talent now announced, Boomerang Festival at Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm in Byron Bay is the place to be on the October long weekend. Boomerang Festival 2013 Line Up Already Announced: Gurrumul Wantok SING SING performing WanSolwaraPipel feat Frank Yamma, Djakapurra, George Telek Vika & Linda Bull (Tonga), Airileke, Albert David, Patriq Kas Futialo, Tieni Ruapene Archie Roach with Lou Bennett, Emma Donovan & Deline Briscoe and a Ten-Piece Ensemble
Archie Roach. Image: Pierre Baroni - medres
Chooky Dancers , Quique Neira, Moana and the Tribe , Busby Marou (QLD) Casey Donovan (NSW) Ernie Dingo, Shellie Morris, Thelma Plum, The Medics, Jack Charles(VIC) Dr Djiniyini
Gondarra OAM (NT), Rako Dancers Sean Choolburra’s 50 Shades of Black, Tammy Anderson’s I Don’t Wanna Play House, Larissa Behrendt. Film Screening of Butcher Paper, Texta, Blackboard and Chalk, Jeff
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McMullen, Arakwal Dancers.
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Boomerang Festival program launch announcement includes: Breabach (Scotland) Digging Roots (Canada) Quique Neira (Chile) Nga Tae (NZ) Dubmarine (QLD) OKA (QLD) Ray Beadle (NSW/NZ) Jerome Kavanagh: TE HAA AIO (NZ) Pacific Curls (NZ) TsuuT’ina & Anishnaabe (Canada) Gary Foley (VIC) Real Injun (Canada) Other music performances include: Slip On Stereo (QLD) Bow and Arrow (NSW) Getano Bann (QLD) Supafresh (NSW) Blakboi (NSW) Dance Grounds: Move it Mob Style (NSW) Malu Kiai Mura Buia (TSI) Vou (Fiji) Jannawi Dancers Koomurri Dancers Bunggul Dancers Speakers Program: George Negus(NSW) , Melissa Lucashenko (QLD) Romaine Morton (NSW) Richard Frankland (VIC) The Boomerang International Indigenous Film Festival (BIIFF) will be launched featuring shorts, documentary and feature films including the award winning Reel Injun featuring Clint Eastwood and
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Adam Beach. Boomerang Festival aims to be accessible. With early bird offers we feature an array of music, dance, theatre, comedy, film and visual arts, along with cultural knowledge exchanges and thought provoking conversations Three day and single day tickets are now on sale through www.
boomerangfestival.com.au or by phoning the Boomerang Festival office on 02 6685 8310. Boomerang Festival 2013 October 4 – 6, 2013 Tyagarah Tea Farm, Byron Bay www.boomerangfestival.com.au Twitter @boomerangfestvl // Facebook www.facebook.com/ boomerangfest