00:00The vocals are being recorded in a cupboard and the lounge room has become a studio.
00:10This makeshift set up is helping First Nations kids produce music about culture.
00:15We've been just writing lyrics, playing some songs and just making beats together.
00:22This group of high schoolers on the New South Wales far south coast are spending a week learning how to write and record songs.
00:29Some are even rapping in language.
00:32Meeting is just staying black, staying proud. Don't be ashamed to show who you are and stuff.
00:38Drumming enthusiast Nevaeh says she's been able to develop her musical skills.
00:43I've gone through a lot of instruments, like I started off on guitar and then went to keyboard and now I'm on drums.
00:51The group is being mentored by the Docker River Band from a remote community in the Northern Territory.
00:57Music changes people, so we're hoping that that'll change kids as well.
01:04The band's week on the south coast is building up to a performance at the Gai Ong Festival.
01:09Gai Ong is the largest indigenous festival in southern New South Wales.
01:14It's a massive weekend of storytelling, music and culture.
01:18The program is part of Grow the Music, an initiative supporting musicians from diverse backgrounds.
01:24Co-founder Lizzie Rutten says the kids' confidence has grown.
01:28They shared vulnerable stories and they wrote those stories in their songs, so I feel like I know them all so much better.
01:33She hopes the impact will live on.
01:36I think it's really important that we hear Aboriginal music in this country because it's ancient, it's ancient.
01:42The art form is ancient here.
01:43I just want to say more cultural music, more cultural songs.
01:48It's a mad experience to listen to it and do it as well.
01:53Modern times and the beat goes on.
01:56Within the words of a new podcast in the States.
01:58And the sound of a new podcast.
02:00Now the animal is easy to re-assist to listen to it.
02:01To be patient if that, just ask your child and the safety.
02:02I don't know.
02:03I'm going to say, many of you are going to tell you stories of people.
02:06You are still in this episode back.
02:07I'm going to listen to you if you don't hear your child, and the fact is that you are studying for the next year.
02:09If you don't want to say that, you can tell them again.
02:10You don't see what?
02:11You're going to talk about this.
02:12You're going to talk about them.
02:14You're going to talk about this.
02:16And you can tell us.
02:18But I'll talk about the whole contest.
02:20You're going to talk about it.
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