RA: How has music been part of the healing process for you? LO: Fabulous !! Everything was great, seeing family, countryman and singing at home, especially to be in my mother and my grandparents’ country. RA: You first performed with the Roebourne Ieramugadu community as part of the Big hART Songs for Peace event in 2020. And I did. And I’ve never looked back from then. LO: My mum, Jennifer Olney, said if I found a singing teacher I could do singing lessons at the age of 13. How did you find your way into music originally? RA: You’ve been singing and performing since you were a teenager. Meeting family was overwhelming, although they are all very gentle folk. I met Uncle at a bush meeting at the Yule River with my cousin May-May Hubert. I went back to Roebourne when I was in my 20’s, with my son, to try and find my mum, but she had passed away a year before I got back. My Uncle Slim Parker introduced me to family. I was the second youngest of five children. Lois Olney: I was Stolen Generation, stolen in 1963. I was taken immediately from my mother’s arms at birth by Native Welfare to Ngala and stayed for eight months until adopted into a loving family, the Olney family. Rosalind Appleby: Lois your people are from Roebourne but you grew up in Fremantle and only connected with them in recent years. Lois Olney singing in Roebourne at “Songs for Peace”.
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