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This is the home of three major resources for worldwide didgeridoo players who are interested in yidaki and Yolŋu culture from Northeast Arnhem Land.

1) Yiḏakiwuy Dhäwu Miwatjŋurunydja is THE comprehensive didgeridoo-didjeridu-yirdaki-yidaki information website made with Yolŋu People. It’s currently available in English, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, French, and German.

2) Hard Tongue Didgeridoo is THE instructional recording in Yolŋu yidaki playing, made by the late Milkay Munuŋgurr. If you want to learn how to play how the Northeast Arnhem Land masters do, start here.

3) YiḏakiStory Blog
Randin Graves, producer of Yiḏakiwuy Dhäwu Miwatjŋurunydja and Hard Tongue Didgeridoo, shares his own reflections, reviews and ramblings to help worldwide didjeridu players gain more insight into the culture that created the instrument from a fellow outsider who lived in it.

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Classic Tracks: Comics Come to Northeast Arnhem Land

Let’s listen to some Djaṯpaŋarri. It’s a kind of Yolŋu music and dance which, according to ethnomusicologist Dr. Alice M. Moyle, Gumatj clansman Dhambudjawa invented in the early to mid 20th century. The style was mostly popular with young men during Moyle’s visit in 1962-3, but as those men grew up, djaṯpaŋarri became popular with all …

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