Jessie Lloyd
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia | Established. Jan 01, 2009 | SELF
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“Islander rhythms, campfire country and defiant humour celebrate simple joys. Melancholy ballads chart a journey of blood, sweat and tears... you’ll almost hear the kettle boil as a closing home recording of the elders invites us to sit down with these unsung survivors.”—4.5 stars - Chris Lambie
“...profoundly moving... the entire collection is sublime.”—4.5 stars - Stephen Fitspatrick
Discography
Other Side of the Room EP - 2014
The Irex EP - 2016
Mission Songs Project - 2017
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A composer, performer and creative entrepreneur, Jessie Lloyd is a Songkeeper of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander music and dedicated to the continuation of song traditions through the presentation of stories and song.
Jessie’s work continues the songlines of Aboriginal Australia, a body of traditional songs that carries the 60,000-year history of the world’s oldest living culture. With this connection she engages her audiences through intimate storytelling, moving harmonies and historical insights, using humour and truth to share the voices of her elders, just as they would around a warm campfire or kitchen table.
Hailing from a musical family, Jessie’s father Joe Geia is a pioneer of Aboriginal protest songs and composed the Aboriginal anthem ‘Yil Lull’. Her grandfather Albie Geia was conductor of the Palm Island Brass Band and leader of the historic 1957 Palm Island Strike. She is a mother and partner, and is currently based in Melbourne, Australia.
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