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ARCHIE ROACH
In 1988 much of Australia was celebrating two hundred years of white settlement but a young Archie Roach was expressing in song what many who weren't celebrating were feeling. For many indigenous people there was anger, despair, disadvantage, land rights battles and deaths in custody. Archie Roach dealt with this by writing songs about his own experiences and feelings - and then performing these songs to whom ever would listen. In early 1988 Paul Petran, the producer of the ABC Radio National program, Music Deli asked Archie if he would come into the ABC studio to record a few songs to play on radio. Archie agreed. Twenty-one years later Archie will present a collection of these songs and launch his new album 'Music Deli Presents Archie Roach -1988' which feature some of the first ever recordings by a young Archie Roach.

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DJIVA
The award-winning group Djiva (pron. Gee-va) is a West Australian duo, two young Indigenous singer writers, Jessie Lloyd a Murri and Torres Straight Islander from North Queensland and Della Rae Morrison, a Noongar of the South West of WA. Together the girls blend beautifully with the ease of old friends, almost like sisters, portraying an independence of spirit as they bring a fresh contemporary feel to their material
In 2007 Djiva released its debut album Yowarliny to wide acclaim, in addition to picking up the 2007 NAIDOC Perth Award for Artist of the Year, and also won the 2007 WA Music Industry Song of the Year in the World & Folk category.

"...the year's most spectacular celebration of Indigenous music…" Xpress

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