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Former AFL player Marlon Motlop among First Nations artists to open for Midnight Oil at Womadelaide
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Marlon Motlop grew up playing football but his father insisted he also learn guitar.
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For a footballer who has starred in front of huge crowds, the buzz of a different audience is getting too loud to ignore for Marlon Motlop.
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He is playing in a new band with fellow team-mate Rulla Kelly-Mansell
They will play at Womadelaide this year, along with many other First Nations artists
From a lead role in an SANFL premiership with Glenelg at a packed Adelaide Oval, to playing with Port Adelaide in the AFL, Motlop has tasted wide-ranging sporting success.
As the ABC planned television coverage of Australia Day events, the broadcaster's Indigenous staff were commissioned to produce a special TV program reflecting on the meaning of our national day from an Indigenous point of view.