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Blakfulla Blues: Marlene Cummins to perform at the Wangaratta Jazz & Blues Festival

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Auntie Marlene Cummins is Australia's foremost Indigenous blues performer, singer, songwriter, musician, painter, broadcaster, actor, dancer and activist
Auntie Marlene Cummins is Australia's foremost Indigenous blues performer, singer, songwriter, painter, broadcaster, actor, dancer and activist. Credit: Alina Gozin’a

"I like to be innovative, but i like people to know that this is Blakfulla blues, you know? from this Country."

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"I like to be innovative, but i like people to know that this is Blakfulla blues, you know? from this Country."

NITV Radio speaks with Auntie Marlene Cummins a proud Gugyelandji and Woppaburra woman, a head of the Wangaratta Festival of Jazz & Blues this November 1st weekend.

Marlene shares with NITV the stories she sings, the significance of Aboriginal Australian Blues and music making. She recounts some of the great inspiring Blues singers over the years as well as her own songs from album 'Koori Woman Blues'.

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