Miami Marketta is the Gold Coast’s favourite open-air night market and live music venue. Here is their gig guide for June.

Trailblazing Indigenous trio Tjaka bring their high-energy show to Miami Marketta on Friday, June 21.

Fusing banging electronic hip-hop beats, with their Aboriginal ancestral influences, this unmissable live act is here off the back of Splendour in the Grass, BIGSOUND, Dark Mofo, Yabun, Brisbane Festival, and Taiwan’s PASIWALI, where they played in front of 30,000 people.

Tjaka‘s vision is to showcase the connection between the past and present, by creating music that is both deeply connected to their heritage, yet thoroughly modern in its delivery.

Using the didjeribone (a slide didgeridoo, similar to a trombone), the group from Meanjin/Brisbane, offer up lava-hot rap flow, known to melt crowds into a crucible of funk, reggae, and dance.

The face bass, a seismic microphone used inside Geoff’s mouth, adds a unique bass sound to the music and enhances the traditional Aboriginal elements.

Consisting of two Fabila brothers, Geoff and Jake, and their close friend Felix Fogarty (The Dandys), the name Tjaka is derived from Tjakamarra, the skin name given to the brothers, who are proud descendants of the Jabirr Jabirr tribe in Western Australian’s Kimberley.

Supporting Tjaka at Miami Marketta on Friday, June 21 is Brisbane duo SAIK (pictured).

Miami Marketta’s gig guide for June is here.

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