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Letterstick Band are a band from north-east Arnhem Land in Australia. The members are from the An-Barra Clan on the coast near Maningrida. They are named after the wooden tools on which messages are carved to communicate between places. They play a mixture of reggae and rock that has been called saltwater rock and they sing in English and in Arnhem Land languages.

Letterstick Band won a Deadly for Band of the Year in 2001. They are the subjects of the documentary Diyama - Soundtracks of Maningrida.

Discography

• An-Barra Clan (1998) - CAAMA
• Diyama (2003) - CAAMA

References

• Corn, Aaron (2002). "Burr-Gi Wargugu ngu-Ninya Rrawa: Expressions of Ancestry and Country in Songs by the Letterstick Band". Musicology Australia (XXV): 76.

1. Sydney Morning Herald Solid rock
2. Letterstick Band Archived 2008-08-05 at the Wayback Machine
3. Australian Film Commission Diyama - Soundtracks of Maningrida
4. Music Australia An-Barra clan
5. Music Australia Diyama

• Northern Territory musical groups
• Indigenous Australian musical groups