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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Archie Roach as told to Andrew Stafford

Archie Roach on performing a day after his partner’s funeral: ‘We got through it; I don’t know how’

‘It was a pretty emotional show’: Archie Roach performs at the Port Fairy folk festival in Victoria on 6 March 2010.
‘It was a pretty emotional show’: Archie Roach performs at the Port Fairy folk festival in Victoria on 6 March 2010, a day after Ruby Hunter’s funeral. Photograph: Ferne Millen Photography

Playing the Port Fairy folk festival on 6 March 2010 is something I can’t forget. It was the day after we buried Ruby [Hunter, Roach’s life and music partner of 35 years].

We were driving back from Berri in the South Australian Riverland and people from the festival got in touch with me, letting me know they understood if I didn’t want to perform.

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