Stiff Gins

Stiff Gins
Origin Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Genres World/Folk/Acoustic/Vocal
Labels Sony, Didgeridoo
Associated acts Emma Donovan, The Black Arm Band
Website http://www.stiffgins.net/
Members
Nardi Simpson
Kaleena Briggs
Past members
Emma Donovan
Sieni Taumeopeau

Stiff Gins are an Indigenous Australian band from Sydney. They call their music "acoustic with harmonies" and are regularly compared to Tiddas.[1] The band was formed by Emma Donovan, Nardi Simpson and Kaleena Briggs after meeting at the Eora Centre while studying music. The bands name uses the word gin (a derogatory word for Aboriginal woman which was also a Dharug word for woman/wife) with the word stiff to become strong black woman,[2] a name which caused debate about use of the word gin.[3]

The band won Deadlys in 2000 for Most Promising New Talent and in 2001 for Single Release.

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Discography

References

  1. ^ Ewans, Michael; Rosalind Halton, John A. Phillips (2004). Music Research: New Directions for a New Century. Cambridge Scholars Press. ISBN 1904303358, 9781904303350. 
  2. ^ TE Archive Drink up the Heady soul of Stiff Gins
  3. ^ Dunbar-Hall, Peter; Chris Gibson (July 2004). Deadly Sounds, Deadly Places. Contemporary Aboriginal Music in Australia. University of New South Wales Press. ISBN 0868406228 9780868406220. 

Further reading

Davis, Therese (2006). "'The Spirit, the Heart and the Power': An Interview with the 'Stiff Gins' on Music, Friendship and History". Aboriginal History 30: 111–123. 

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