A bizarrely entertaining highlight of the One Movement Showcase Music Festival on Sunday afternoon was Mary G Queen Of The Kimberley, who I’ve since learned is the female stage persona of Mark Bin Bakar.

The unique performance at 3.05pm on the Snowball Stage was often hilariously self-effacing, and occasionally beautiful and moving. Mary G was accompanied by the WA Youth Jazz Orchestra and a live band, as well as three traditional Aboriginal dancers for the final song, ‘Dreaming Of The Black Man’, which is embedded below.

Here’s a bit more about Mark Bin Bakar:

I am dedicated to all aspects of social and economic success for our Indigenous community. I am also very committed, conscious and passionate about the health, well being and social developments of our WA community and Australia as a whole. My mother was taken away from Halls Creek at the age of three and I spent most of my childhood in Broome. I was born in Derby and am fully aware of the uniqueness of who we are as Aboriginal people, recognising and identifying the extended families through the Kimberley. We are all connected up.

More on Mark/Mary G at his/her website.