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Great White Bird imagines a time in Australia before European settlement.

It references “Susie’s Ship Song” sung by Susie, a Wirangu woman from Yardea on Eyre Peninsula in South Australia, whose song was recorded on wax cylinder in 1928.

It is believed that the song was created by the Wirangu people in response to a tall ship sailing into and anchoring in Denial Bay. It tells the story of a great white bird that came across the seas and which was tethered to the bay so that it couldn’t get away.

This piece honours and pays tribute to Australia’s first people, their stories and their land.

It premiered as part of Zephyr Quartet’s ‘Arrivals’ concerts in 2016 which told stories of migration to Australia by boat.