ESSAYS

Remembering Dr. G Yunupingu

[Published in the the Sep/Oct 2017 issue of Rhythms magazine] REMEMBERING DR. G YUNUPINGU Over the course of the past decade, Rhythms senior contributor SAMUEL J. FELL has written about, and spent time with, DR. YUNUPINGU on multiple occasions – he shares observations on an artist Rolling Stone called Australia’s Most Important Voice It’s close to midnight, …

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Meeting Molly

[Submitted to the inaugural Horne Prize, 2016 – presented by The Saturday Paper] He answers the door in shorts, a t-shirt with the face of Che Guevara emblazoned across it. It’s an unseasonably warm autumn day, and so his feet are bare. In place of his famous Stetson is a red baseball cap. Ian ‘Molly’ Meldrum, short …

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