Electric Fields Awarded Keys to the City
The award is given in recognition of outstanding contributions to the City of Adelaide.
Image by Festival City Photographer/City of Adelaide
SA electronic music duo Electric Fields are the latest recipients of the Keys to the City.
In a civic ceremony at Town Hall last week (March 13), Electric Fields became the first to receive this honour since Uncle Lewis Yarlupurka O’Brien AO in 2021.
Comprising vocalist Zaachariaha Fielding and keyboard player and producer Michael Ross, Electric Fields sing in Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara and English, merging modern electronic music with traditional Aboriginal culture to create their unique sound.
Last year Electric Fields became the first duo to represent Australia in the Eurovision Song Contest with their single, ‘One Milkali (One Blood)’, an uplifting tune incorporating the Yankunytjatjara language that calls for unity and togetherness in today’s society.
Although the two failed to make it past the first semi-final of Eurovision, their performance was applauded by viewers and media outlets across the globe.
Electric Fields also performed the theme song, ‘We the People’, for the first WorldPride in the Southern Hemisphere in Sydney in 2023.
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Lord Mayor Jane Lomax-Smith, who was on hand to award the Keys of the City to Electric Fields, believes the musical group are worthy recipient of the council’s highest honour that acknowledges and recognises outstanding contributions from locals.
“As a UNESCO Creative City of Music, it’s up to us to develop and celebrate emerging talent as well as honour the performers who have paved their way,” said the Lord Mayor.
“Electric Fields’ anthems, ballads and bangers, celebrating diversity and First Nations culture, have forged a new era in the Australian music scene and captured the hearts of Euro-pop fans globally.
“Adelaide, and the rest of the country, got behind our homegrown heroes when they took on the world at Eurovision, and that demonstrates the universal love for these performers.
“In this, the 10 year anniversary of Adelaide’s designation as a UNESCO Creative City, I can’t think of a more fitting Key to the City recipient than our very own Electric Fields.”
