Celebrated Gunaikurnai gumleaf player Uncle Herb Patten first encountered gumleaf music as a child in Newmerella, when he witnessed his mother's brother, Uncle Lindsay Thomas, pull a gumleaf from a ...
Roseina Boston onstage at the 2005 Melbourne International Arts Festival with the ensemble Pannikin. (Courtesy Jon Rose, used with permission.) She was born under a lantana bush on Stuart Island, an ...
Making music with a gumleaf is a unique and treasured part of history.
From busking on the streets of Melbourne, to taking centre stage at the Sydney Opera House, Gunaikurnai gum leaf performer Uncle Herb Patten, has had a remarkable musical career performing at schools, ...