Womadelaide: family ties bring Gotye and guru Djalu Gurruwiwi together | Paul Daley

The pop singer will perform with Djalu Gurruwiwi, a spiritual keeper of the didgeridoo, his Yolngu gospel musician son Larry and their Bärra band following a meeting last year that made Gotye one of the family

Late last year in the North East Arnhem Land mining town of Nhulunbuy one of Australia’s most popular contemporary recording artists, Gotye, and a Yolngu gospel musician, Larry Gurruwiwi, held an impromptu jam session at the local radio station.

Larry can’t read English or write music. But he sings angelically and plays just about any instrument – and commits to memory the compositions that he bases on the stories of his Yolngu people’s ancestral songlines.

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