With a career filled with hit albums, singles and international tours, Yothu Yindi (Yolŋu Matha for ‘child and mother’) is one of the nation’s most successful bands. Stalwarts of the Indigenous music scene in Australia, they’ve won eight ARIA awards and were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2012 and the NIMA Hall of Fame in 2023. Despite losing Dr Yunupingu, founding singer of the group, in 2013, the band carries his legacy proudly with talented new frontman Yirringa Yunupingu walking tall in his uncle’s footsteps. The band recently released the single, ‘Mabo’, which has been praised for its catchy grooves and political message. Now featuring original members alongside fresh talent from the next generation, the revamped supergroup of blackfellas and whitefellas from far North-East Arnhem Land continues to honour the music and movement of its founders and lives up to the spirit of intergenerational kinship of the band’s name  Returning to the festival for the first time since 1993, this show will celebrate 35 years of their Tribal Voice album, which includes the iconic anthem ‘Treaty’.

Photo credit: Alan James. Warning: this photo contains images of deceased persons.