Uncle Bart, a world-renowned Indigenous Australian musician, is noted for his pioneering fusion of reggae with Indigenous Australian musical influences and for his contribution to the growth of Indigenous music in Australia. He is a Pitjantjatjara man of the Mirning dreaming and his totem is the whale. Bart is Kokatha through his father and Mirning through his mother. He grew up at Koonibba Aboriginal Mission near Ceduna on the South Australian edge of the Nullarbor Plain on the Great Australian Bight.

At 14 years of age, after spending some time in a boys' facility, Bart found his way to the Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music at the University of Adelaide, where he was introduced to music, including drumming, singing, and guitar playing. He has studied at the center and formed Australia's first Indigenous rock band, "No Fixed Address." Bart has performed with notable acts such as Midnight Oil, Yothu Yindi, Coloured Stone, and Mixed Relations.

Bart's music is deeply rooted in his personal experience and cultural heritage as a member of the Stolen Generations. With a career spanning many years, his mastery of the yidaki (didgeridoo) has established him as a respected and sought-after musician in the Indigenous music scene.

• Instrumentation: Yidaki, (didgeridoo) clapsticks

• Genre: Traditional and contemporary Aboriginal music

• Size: soloist - group

• Hire For: Conferences, Sporting events, Corporate events, Naidoc, Reconciliation and Sorry Day, Education, Welcome to Country support, Smoking Ceremony, Yidaki Demonstrations

• Equipment Supplied: Requires a microphone for large events

• Location: Victoria - will travel