Rebecca Hatch to perform at Blak Markets as remote indigenous makers sell their art in Sydney

When she performs free at the Blak Markets NAIDOC Art Festival in The Rocks this weekend, Rebecca Hatch will show why she won Triple J’s Unearthed High Indigenous Initiative.

Indigenous singer/songwriter Rebecca Hatch, 17, near the Overseas Passenger Terminal at Circular Quay where she will perform as part of the Blak Markets this weekend. Picture: Jonathan Ng

WHEN she performs free at the Blak Markets NAIDOC Art Festival in The Rocks this weekend, Rebecca Hatch will show why she won Triple J’s Unearthed High Indigenous Initiative.

Hatch will sing the beautiful RnB songs she has composed herself, and expects her biggest fans to be there — Harmony and Melody, her lawyer sister Isabel’s two-year-old twins.

“They always try and run on stage,” Hatch says.

The 17-year-old HSC student from Campbelltown Performing Arts High School is hot property since winning Triple J last year. She wowed them at Leichhardt Oval when she sang the national anthem in Dharawal language at the NRL Indigenous Round in May.

Singer/songwriter Rebecca Hatch, of Campbelltown, who will perform at the Blak Markets this weekend. Picture: Jonathan Ng

Visitors to the Blak Markets can listen to Hatch and other indigenous performers while browsing stall after stall of art. Artists from as far away as Amata and Ernabella in SA, Ampilatwatja and Maningrida in the NT, and Warmun in WA will be exhibiting and speaking about their work for sale.

Sarah Martin of Blak Markets organiser First Hand Solutions says remote-area artists sold $250,000 worth of artworks at the Blak Markets last year.

Blak Markets NAIDOC Art Festival, Overseas Passenger Terminal, 130 Argyle St, The Rocks; 10am-5pm this Saturday and Sunday, admission free, blakmarkets.com