'I've taken the didj to the streets of Dallas, Arkansas, New Mexico, Las Vegas.. in the Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam, Joshua Tree National Park..

a beach in Los Angeles..in our band.. at church.. in caves.. with a native American storyteller.. I've actually put a baby to sleep with it & reminded World War II vets of their days stationed in Australia or New Zealand..

at summer camps.. at a party where folks were doing bizarre things & I found a cardboard tube (needless to say, I won).. in a mall, for which I got a 40% discount on the didj for bringing folk into the store..

on rooftops.. in a riverbed.. many many more..& many more to come..& I always talk to people who stop to listen.. I sometimes listen to them talk as much as they listen to me play..

if not for the didj, those experiences would be much less, if they'd ever have happened at all.. I hope to one day visit the ancestral home of the didjeridu.. it's a dream i intend to somehow wake up to..

"the spirit of the land looks not at the colour of our skin, but into our hearts" J.W.A.

josh king, dallas, texas
 

(Left) Kurt on stage with BROTHER
(Above) First Graders at St. Jude's School

I've been following BROTHER for about 10 years. Always mesmerized by the didg. In 2003 I bought my first one at Musikfest in PA from Didgeridrew. It sat in a corner for about three months before I got to it. From there what an amazing ride. I started making my own from the directions from the website. (I can't go into a Home Depot without visiting the music dept./plumbing dept.). Four months later Hamish invited me to sit in and play at Jack Frost Celtic fest in front of about 1500 people. It still blows my mind thinking about that today.

There's not allot of didg players in the Pocono Mountains where I live, but I really wanted to expand my playing. I went on line and found a didg fest in Maryland of all places. I got to spend 5 days with some really amazing players. One being Ash Dargan, an Aboriginal from Australia. I've never played the same since.

I think the neatest experience is doing seminars for schools. Sharing the didg history with kids, and the amazing amount of respect I have for the Aboriginal people and their culture, also teaching them how to make there own. Very cool.

Go pick up a piece of PVC and make your own, or buy one online. It will change your life.


j. kurt hurd, pocono mountains, pennsylvania
 

...but i do know that we got some awesome didj pics. we went to a secluded part of the grand canyon, climbed down a few hundred feet, got some pics there as well as many other places along the way. hamish, if you get a chance, go didjing in the grand canyon. ***awesome*** i would barely bark or give a lil' toot & it would echo for several seconds & you could actually hear it traveling through the canyon. ***incredible*** so needless to say, i spent a long time there & other parts of the canyon just playing & playing. we even video-taped a lot of it, so when we start editing our tapes, i'll make one with just the didj stuff. well as is the norm, this is getting longer than expected, so i'ma get to bed. talk to ya soon mate. tell gus, dalbo, drew & everyone else i said "hey." peace, love, & didjn'..........."

josh king, texas
 

Teacher, Lynn Falk, helps students make their own didgeridoos at Thorsen Elementary School, Cedarburg, Wisconsin