Nancy Bates • Fleur Green
Lively in Adelaide
Event Description
Nancy Bates & Fleur Green
Nancy Bates is a Barkindji woman from the Far West of NSW but living on Kaurna country. 2022 has been a huge year for Nancy, winning the Adelaide Fringe Bank SA Best Music Award, performing at Womadelaide, and finalist in the Australian Women in Music Humanitarian Award category in recognition of her passion for reaching women in prisons through songwriting and teaching ukulele. Bates completed her artistic apprenticeship between 2014-18 under the wings Uncle Archie Roach spurring her on to becoming a powerful presence both on the stage, and within Aboriginal communities. 2023 will see Nancy release a much-anticipated album and participate as music facilitator for the documentary project Songs Inside, with award winning Director Shalom Almond.
Fleur Green is a musician and creator with many strings – literal and otherwise – to her artistic bow. In her early life and career, Fleur was a prodigious, classically trained multi-instrumentalist, playing piano, violin, and a range of percussion instruments – ultimately to award-winning, orchestral standards.
