Badu Gili LIVE

Meet eccentric Blue Mountains-based electro soul duo Bow and Arrow, aka husband and wife team Mindy Jane (Bow) and Mitchell Kwanten (Arrow).

These talented partners in crime have been seen tearing up the stage at Homeground, and headlining this year's Badu Gili Live series. Gathering a following through appearances on NITV, at Blues Fest and a nation-wide tour with The Sapphires, as well as recording a banging remix of UNKLE's 'Money and Run' featuring Nick Cave.

Don't miss their brand of energetic, entertaining and fun performance.

Tessa Thames is a female electronic pop indie singer songwriter, a mother, daughter, sister, auntie and first nations person from the Central Coast of NSW, now based in Sydney. Best known as one half of acoustic duo Microwave Jenny, Tessa now releases as a solo artist Tessa Thames - from a childhood nickname and her time spent living in London. 

Microwave Jenny is an Australian pop/folk/jazz duet that consists of Tessa Nuku on vocals and Brendon Boney on guitar and vocals. The phrase 'Microwave Jenny' comes from the 1997 film, The Castle. 

The duo feature heavily on the Australian music festival circuit with notable live performances including Bluesfest, Woodford Folk Festival, Peats Ridge Festival and Nannup Music Festival.

Blanche is the creative alias of John Grant, a self- produced First Nations musician (Wiradjuri) hailing from Sydney, Australia. Blanche produces all his music in his bedroom studio and creates music under many genres such as alternative rock, acoustic, psychedelia and RnB.

Blanche uses music to explore and understand the world around him as well as delve into his own psyche.

Dyagula, also known as Mindy Kwanten is a proud Wiradjuri Ngunawal song woman born in Yass, and an established multi-genre vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, composer and vocal producer and vocal arranger. Dyagula means ‘lyrebird’ in Wiradjuri.

Badu Gili – meaning ‘water light’ in the language of the site’s traditional owners, the Gadigal people – explores ancient stories in a spectacularly contemporary, nightly seven-minute animation. Launched in 2017, there have been three iterations of Badu Gili, celebrating the rich history and vibrancy of Australia’s First Nations culture.

The first Badu Gili in 2017 weaved together the work of five eminent First Nations artists from across Australia and the Torres Strait Islands, Jenuarrie (Judith Warrie), Frances Belle Parker, Alick Tipoti and the late Lin Onus and Minnie Pwerle.

The second Badu Gili from 2018 traces the songlines across shifting terrain, from the far corners of the Australian desert to the waters of the Torres Strait. It blends the diverse voices of artists Djambawa Marawili AM, Mervyn Rubuntja, Mabel Juli, Patricia Ansell Dodds, Penny Evans and  Aiona Tala Gaidan.

Badu Gili: Wonder Women is the most recent installation and produced in collaboration with the Art Gallery of NSW. Badu Gili: Wonder Women celebrates the work and stories of six female First Nations artists, Marlene Gilson, Judith Inkamala, Sally M. Nangala Mulda, Marlene Rubuntja, Elaine Russell and Kaylene Whiskey.

Each projection has been accompanied by an original soundscape composed by Damian Robinson.