When he was 10 years old, Peter D. Harper’s family moved from the United Kingdom to Perth, Australia. He developed an interest in the didgeridoo music that he heard indigenous Aboriginal musicians ...
BEMIDJI, Minn.-It was easy to find Janice Haworth's World Music class on Friday morning. The hum of more than 40 student-made didgeridoos-the centuries-old indigenous Australian wind instrument-filled ...
The instrument – fabled into existence tens of thousands of years ago, but more familiar to Western ears in the last few decades – is made from the branches of the eucalyptus and gum trees. Hollowed ...
SANDYMOUNT – In a pinch, a long, skinny cardboard tube can, in fact, make music. Just put it in the hands of musician Pitz Quattrone. He’ll make it work. Quattrone, a Vermont-based performer, showed ...
The didgeridoo is, to American ears, an exotic instrument. An instrument of the Australian Aborigines, most commonly made of the hollowed-out trunk of a eucalyptus tree, the didgeridoo has had no ...
It's easy to produce a simple sound, but virtuoso didgeridoo playing involves tricky breathing and a certain way of opening the vocal tract, Australian physicists said Wednesday. The unusual ...
You might not expect an ancient Aboriginal instrument from Australia to find its way to Alaska. But walk around downtown Ketchikan on a warm day and you may hear 15-year-old Kinani Halvorsen playing ...
Award-winning Australian singer-songwriter Peter D. Harper - known in the music world simply as Harper - creates a heady mix of roots music through his creative use of harmonica and the drone of the ...
The ACO has a reputation for innovative programming and last night’s was a good example. The eclectic range of music on offer had several strands – perhaps too many for complete coherence? – but the ...
AUSTIN -- Eliot Stone first heard the sound of the didgeridoo when he was in school. He loved it so much, he was inspired to study the instrument and follow his passion to Australia. Stone studied ...
Daniel Orlansky has been playing the didgeridoo for 25 years in both America and Europe. He has performed in many locations, notably at Berkley College of Music, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the ...