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Tasmania’s all-women, all-electric guitar band Mapatazi rocks out at arts festival – ABC News
What does a band of 22 women playing electric and bass guitar sound like? Like “the beginning of what’s possible,” says Mapatazi founder Rose Turtle Ertler.

Tasmania-based musician Rose Turtle Ertler had not come across a big, guitar-only band playing original music until she started her own.
The all-women band cheekily named Mapatazi consists of 22 electric guitar and bass-playing women of all ages and levels of musical experience.
“To have so many guitars together was a new thing to try out,” Turtle Ertler said.
“Most people think it’s funny, and then when I tell them the
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