Wantok Musik
For more than two decades the Wantok Musik Foundation has been building relationships, friendships and trust across Australia and the Pacific. Wantok Musik creates opportunities for connection and understanding.
Alongside First Nations musicians and artists from Australia and the wider Oceania region we share unique music and films, and celebrate culture. We support and showcase an Oceania that is ancient, diverse, creative, culturally-rich and resilient. In doing so, our work transforms lives and communities.
Through the power of music and art, Wantok supports artists to share stories that the world needs to hear. Our work promotes traditional languages and cultures, builds sustainable careers, fosters employment pathways, contributes to cultural diplomacy and promotes unity and pride in culture.
“Wantok Musik continues to be one of the most creative labels for showcasing the continually developing talents of many Australian Indigenous musicians, as well as Melanesian-Polynesian artists. Always warmly produced, their albums are rhythmically adventurous, occasionally challenging, often heartbreakingly beautiful and deeply moving. The Wantok roster is an essential musical window into this unique region of the world.”
Seth Jordan, music journalist,
Songlines Magazine UK
"Honiara (Solomon Islands) has been through a
lot of battles and scars in the past years, from
the recent riots to the pandemic... and at times
we forgot what it was like to truly have unity and calmness. The Wantok Musik Concert reminded us of a different calmness, one that will last forever. This was not just an entertainment. This was a healing to the soul.”
Solomon Islands journalist Regina Lepping
on the Wantok cultural collaboration and
concert, Jan 2023