DOORS OPEN: 3.00PM
ARCHIE ROACH: 4.00PM - 5.30PM

Join ARIA Hall of Fame inductee Archie Roach for a special one-off show, not to be missed. A night of song and storytelling, Replay: Koorie (1988) will celebrate Archie’s connection to St Kilda, revisiting the songs he wrote whilst living behind the Village Belle Hotel in the mid to late 1980s.

Released in 1988 on cassette tape only, Koorie was produced by the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Trust (now known as the Koorie Heritage Trust). The ten songs on Koorie are among Archie’s earliest protest songs, penned in frustration as many Australians prepared to celebrate the 1988 bicentenary. This intimate concert and conversation will include the very first song Archie ever wrote whilst he and Ruby Hunter—his late partner and soul mate—stayed together in Galiamble, trying to get sober and turn their lives around.

Special guests and key collaborators will join Archie—talking, singing and celebrating this lost tape. The show has been curated especially for Yaluk-ut Weelam Ngargee to celebrate Archie's little known connection to St Kilda, whilst acknowledging his extraordinary contribution to music and his ongoing fight and support for the rights of First Peoples both in Australia and around the world.

Featuring Archie Roach AM, N’arweet Dr Carolyn Briggs AM, Nola Lauch (Archie’s niece), Uncle Jim Berg, Archie’s sisters, and musicians Steve Magnusson and Sam Anning.

This special event is part of the Yaluk-ut Weelam Ngargee First People’s Art and Cultural Festival, produced by The City of Port Phillip.