From pop to classical to avant-garde: the 15 best Sydney Opera House shows to stream for free
The venue is releasing 50 archival films across the next two months, to celebrate its 50th year. Our editors and critics have selected the top picks
May 2023
Anthony Albanese gives eulogy for 'a giant' at Yunupingu memorial – video
The service was also attended by the minister for Indigenous Australians, Linda Burney, opposition leader, Peter Dutton, US ambassador to Australia, Caroline Kennedy, and other dignitaries
March 2022
Womadelaide’s unforgettable moments: ‘They didn’t know what to expect’
From an all-star train ride across the Nullarbor to an unexpected cricket plague, this year’s festival marks 30 years of border-defying music and art
March 2021
Gurrumul, Omar Souleyman, 9Bach and DakhaBrakha: the best global artists the Grammys forgot
From the Godfathers of Arabic rap to the father of Ethio-jazz, Grammy-winning producer Ian Brennanguides a tour through global music’s greatest
February 2020
Buŋgul review: live tribute to Gurrumul's last gift to the world has fitting end for Yolgnu legend
The artist’s chart-topping album Djarimirri is retold on stage through an orchestra, dance and video
January 2020
A Buŋgul, a procession, an overnight vigil: Sydney finds new rituals to mark day of mourning
After an exhilarating celebration of Dr G Yunupingu, a procession weaved through Sydney before spending the night in communal reflection at Barangaroo
March 2019
Gurrumul wins Australia's most prestigious music prize
Australian Music Prize awarded for Djarimirri, an album completed just weeks before the musician’s death
January 2019
Best albums of 2018? Australia’s richest music prize reveals shortlist
Judges of the $30,000 Australian Music prize explain why the top nine albums are such knockouts
December 2018
From Camp Cope to Gurrumul Yunupingu: the best Australian albums of 2018
The 10 best Australian films of 2018: zombies and swingers and ghosts, oh my!
November 2018
Aria awards 2018: Amy Shark, Gurrumul and Kasey Chambers win big in moving ceremony
Shark paid tribute to women in music while Jimmy Barnes used his time backstage to draw attention to Australia’s domestic violence crisis
October 2018
Aria awards 2018: Amy Shark and Courtney Barnett lead nominations
Shark scores nine nominations for Love Monster, while Barnett is close behind with eight
April 2018
Gurrumul’s Djarimirri (Child of the Rainbow) – behind the songs of the chart-topping album
The Yolngu artist’s manager and collaborator explains why the album is a creative meeting place for black and white Australia
Gurrumul’s album Djarimirri is first Indigenous-language chart-topper
Posthumous record becomes first Indigenous-language release to reach No 1 in Australia’s Aria album charts
‘We underestimated Gurrumul’: an unlikely career on the edge of two worlds
A new documentary and posthumous album dispel the myths surrounding a beloved Australian Indigenous artist
February 2018
Gurrumul review – stirring and soulful ode to Australia's most important voice
Paul Williams’ must-see documentary about the late, great musician does justice to a life lived between two worlds
August 2017
'He was a real person': Briggs leads awards night tributes to Dr G Yunupingu
Troy Cassar-Daley and AB Original take out out top National Indigenous Music awards on a night dedicated to tributes from Paul Kelly, Yunupingu family and others
Dr G Yunupingu's death highlights 'preventable' renal health nightmare, says doctor
The late musician’s specialist tells Garma festival that Indigenous Australians have to travel hundreds of kilometres for treatment for kidney disease
Garma festival: Gumatj clan lead emotional tribute to Dr G Yunupingu
As his brothers sang a Dr G song about fire, family members mourned, and prime minister Malcolm Turnbull’s wife Lucy cried with them
July 2017
'I taught him three chords': memories of the late, great Yunupingu
Indigenous artist’s songs brought two cultures together and earned him deep respect across Asia, Europe and America
