Nancy Bates (singer)

Nancy Bates
At the Fleurieu Folk Festival in 2016
OccupationSinger-songwriter

Nancy Bates is an Aboriginal Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and teacher based in Adelaide. She is known for her music project Songs Inside, in which she taught inmates in a women's prison in Adelaide to sing, write songs, and play an instrument, which gave rise to a 2024 film of the same name by documentary filmmaker Shalom Almond. She is also known for her show Still Talkin' Bout A Revolution, based on the works of Tracy Chapman.