Reviving Indigenous languages through song is the driving force for Rochelle Pitt-Watson’s music.

Her Quandamooka and Meriam heritage underlie all of her songs, and she hopes that performing them brings some relief from the stresses of these post-covid times.

Rochelle is one of the First Nations artists taking centre stage at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre in May for Clancestry—A Celebration of Country.

She tells us on Streets of Your Town about the significance of being part of a festival that showcases and celebrates First Nations artists, on land that for thousands of years has been a meeting and cultural place for Indigenous people of this land next to the Brisbane River, or Maiwar.

Join the Wandering Journo tribe to see more details on this episode of Streets of Your Town and the back catalogue at soyt.substack.com

Reviving Indigenous languages through song is the driving force for Rochelle Pitt-Watson&rsquo;s music.
Her Quandamooka and Meriam heritage underlie all of her songs, and she hopes that performing them brings some relief from the stresses of these post-covid times.
Rochelle is one of the First Nations artists taking centre stage at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre in May for Clancestry&mdash;A Celebration of Country.
She tells us on Streets of Your Town about the significance of being part of a festival that showcases and celebrates First Nations artists, on land that for thousands of years has been a meeting and cultural place for Indigenous people of this land next to the Brisbane River, or Maiwar.
Join the Wandering Journo tribe to see more details on this episode of Streets of Your Town and the back catalogue at soyt.substack.com

Join dual Walkley award winning Wandering Journo Nance Haxton in conversation with authentic, sometimes eclectic, and often pre-eminent Australians about the streets of their town. Stories about where they grew up, the environment they live, and what inspires them. Go on an audio journey with Nance highlighting a different slice of Australian life each episode.

Find all of Nance Haxton's links and work HERE

Join dual Walkley award winning Wandering Journo Nance Haxton in conversation with authentic, sometimes eclectic, and often pre-eminent Australians about the streets of their town. Stories about where they grew up, the environment they live, and what inspires them. Go on an audio journey with Nance highlighting a different slice of Australian life each episode.
Find all of Nance Haxton's links and work <a href="https://lnk.to/p2NSuH">HERE</a>

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Rochelle Pitt-Watson on reviving Indigenous language through song

Broken Hill-born country singer-songwriter Raechel Whitchurch spent most of her childhood travelling in her family's country music band, before establishing herself as one of Aussie music’s most recognisable country artists.



But her path to songwriting was far from guaranteed. In fact, it wasn't until her family saw Kasey Chambers’ family group The Dead Ringer Band perform in Broken Hill that country music became a family career. Her Dad thought it would be a great way to make a living, so they all became self-taught musicians.



After several local talent quests, the Lee family packed their lives into a caravan and hit the road on two laps of Australia and a six-month stint in Arnhem Land performing in their travelling country family band, The Lees. Raechel, the eldest, was aged only 12, but it’s a lifestyle she has taken on as her own into adulthood with her husband Ben and three children on the road as well.



And as Raechel tells us on Streets of Your Town, her songs don’t flinch from telling the hardships as well as the fun times of life in rural and remote Australia.



Contact Nance AKA The Wandering Journo and find socials links HERE



Get the full story, and join The Wandering Journo tribe at substack.soyt.com

Broken Hill-born country singer-songwriter Raechel Whitchurch spent most of her childhood travelling in her family's country music band, before establishing herself as one of Aussie music’s most recognisable country artists.
 
But her path to songwriting was far from guaranteed. In fact, it wasn't until her family saw Kasey Chambers’ family group The Dead Ringer Band perform in Broken Hill that country music became a family career. Her Dad thought it would be a great way to make a living, so they all became self-taught musicians.
 
After several local talent quests, the Lee family packed their lives into a caravan and hit the road on two laps of Australia and a six-month stint in Arnhem Land performing in their travelling country family band, The Lees. Raechel, the eldest, was aged only 12, but it’s a lifestyle she has taken on as her own into adulthood with her husband Ben and three children on the road as well.
 
And as Raechel tells us on Streets of Your Town, her songs don’t flinch from telling the hardships as well as the fun times of life in rural and remote Australia.
 
Contact Nance AKA The Wandering Journo and find socials links <a href="https://lnk.to/p2NSuH">HERE</a>
 
Get the full story, and join The Wandering Journo tribe at substack.soyt.com

Raechel Whitchurch on outback life and connecting with people as a songwriter

New Meanjin/Brisbane band Yirinda is widening the scope of Indigenous music with a unique take blending Aboriginal language and songs with classical genres.



Yirinda combines ancient Aboriginal language performed by Butchulla songman Fred Leone with dramatic soundscapes from Samuel Pankhurst, accompanied by a string quartet, to invoke thousands of generations of story and culture through music.



The band has just released its debut album on vinyl, CD and digital following on from their performance debut at last year’s Brisbane Festival, before going on to play at the Woodford Folk Festival over New Years. 



Fred and Samuel tell Streets of Your Town about their unique evocative sound evolved,  and their excitement taking Yirinda on the road with a tour up Australia’s east coast, finishing in Cairns on May 31.



Contact Nance AKA The Wandering Journo and find socials links HERE



Get the full story, and join The Wandering Journo tribe at substack.soyt.com

New Meanjin/Brisbane band Yirinda is widening the scope of Indigenous music with a unique take blending Aboriginal language and songs with classical genres.
 
Yirinda combines ancient Aboriginal language performed by Butchulla songman Fred Leone with dramatic soundscapes from Samuel Pankhurst, accompanied by a string quartet, to invoke thousands of generations of story and culture through music.
 
The band has just released its debut album on vinyl, CD and digital following on from their performance debut at last year’s Brisbane Festival, before going on to play at the Woodford Folk Festival over New Years. 
 
Fred and Samuel tell Streets of Your Town about their unique evocative sound evolved,  and their excitement taking Yirinda on the road with a tour up Australia’s east coast, finishing in Cairns on May 31.
 
Contact Nance AKA The Wandering Journo and find socials links <a href="https://lnk.to/p2NSuH">HERE</a>
 
Get the full story, and join The Wandering Journo tribe at substack.soyt.com

Yirinda on combining ancient Aboriginal language with classical music

There’s only two people who have made it onto Streets of Your Town podcast more than once. And journo and author extraordinaire Trent Dalton is one of them. 

With the Netflix series adaptation of his first breakthrough novel Boy Swallows Universe now number one in Australia and top ten in the US, it’s time to revisit this Brisbane born and bred talent, whose gritty but hopeful representations of the wrong side of town in his novels have thrust beloved Brissie icons such as the Story Bridge onto the worldwide map.

He knows this underworld because he grew up in it, and Trent tells us on Streets of Your Town how he never could have envisioned as a young child how a story he wrote could one day make it onto screens around the country and around the globe.

Contact Nance AKA The Wandering Journo and find socials links HERE



Get the full story, and join The Wandering Journo tribe at substack.soyt.com

There’s only two people who have made it onto Streets of Your Town podcast more than once. And journo and author extraordinaire Trent Dalton is one of them. 
With the Netflix series adaptation of his first breakthrough novel Boy Swallows Universe now number one in Australia and top ten in the US, it’s time to revisit this Brisbane born and bred talent, whose gritty but hopeful representations of the wrong side of town in his novels have thrust beloved Brissie icons such as the Story Bridge onto the worldwide map.
He knows this underworld because he grew up in it, and Trent tells us on Streets of Your Town how he never could have envisioned as a young child how a story he wrote could one day make it onto screens around the country and around the globe.
Contact Nance AKA The Wandering Journo and find socials links <a href="https://lnk.to/p2NSuH">HERE</a>
 
Get the full story, and join The Wandering Journo tribe at substack.soyt.com

Rochelle Pitt-Watson on reviving Indigenous language through song

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