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Year	Artform	Event type	Keyword

Archie Roach - 1988

The show will feature some of the first ever recordings by a young Archie Roach

Presented by	Archie Roach

Date	Fri 18 Dec 2009

Time	7:30pm Duration: 2 hours 15 minutes

Cost	Reserved Cabaret Seating Web/Phone/Door $40 Unreserved Theatre Seating Web/Phone/Door $35

Venue	Performance Space (Reserved Cabaret Tables - max 4 seats per table and Unreserved Theatre Seating)

Enquiries	Box Office: Monday to Friday 12 noon - 4pm. 07 3872 9000 or email boxoffice@jwcoca.qld.gov.au

Artforms	Music - A Cappella, Choir, Gospel, Soul, Music - Folk, Acoustic, Country, World (Music, Dance)

Type	Performance


	Photo by James Penlidis

In 1988 much of Australia was celebrating the Bicentennial 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’ at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts on Friday 18th December

The show and the album will feature some of the first ever recordings by a young Archie Roach.

Support - Dave Arden
Special guest - Ruby Hunter

Recommended age: 12+ if accompanied by an adult

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