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MCs Announced For National Indigenous Music Awards

Staff Writer

Voting closes this Saturday

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With the National Indigenous Music Awards fast approaching in Darwin, the MCs hosting the night's festivities have been announced — SBS and National Indigenous TV (NITV) presenter and journalist Malarndirri McCarthy along with cabaret comedian Kamahi Djordon King will be leading the evening's proceedings.

Performing on the night — this Saturday, 25 July — will be the incomparable Frank Yamma, the premiere performance of The Genesis Project by East Journey and Yothu Yindi, Northern Territory six-piece B2M (Bathurst To Melville) and The Painted Ladies — the latter of whom will also have a documentary about the band screened on NITV on Wednesday, 1 July. 

Voting for the National Indigenous Music Awards close this Saturday, 20 June, which you can do here.