Category Archives: Didgeridoo Articles/News

Custom Made Didgeridoo for Sydney International Rotary Convention

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The International Rotary Convention was held in Sydney from the 1st-4th June 2014. The event was a huge success and attended by approximately 20,000 Rotarians from over 150 countries around the world.

 

Spirit Gallery was commissioned to create a didgeridoo as a welcome gift for the President of Rotary International, Ron D Burton.

 

The didgeridoo was made by Kristian Benton with a customised message and presented by Reno Safarian and Gumaroy Newman at the indigenous arts stand inside the “Friendship House”

 

Thanking Alan from Rotary Strathfield for working with us and giving us this opportunity.

 

Spirit Gallery Masterpieces of 2013 and their proud owners!

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The 3.1 metre Heartland Didgeridoo, the longest didgeridoo we have ever had in the store, has found a new home far far away in Egersund Norway and is now proudly displayed there in the Kakadu store. It has already created a lot of interest with a local newspaper already running a feature on it.

 

Our Norwegian friend Eivind who visits Australia every year and who already has quite an impressive collection of didgeridoos from Spirit Gallery could not resist this monster didge when he came face to face with it in the gallery. Check out Eivind with his new toy and its final resting place in Norway.

 

 

 

Thanks also to Sandy and Lee Harden, our American friends who purchased the other favourite Spirit Gallery piece of 2013 – the dot painted bench. This bench was painted by 10 individual artists from the Keringke Art Centre in the remote community of Santa Teresa in the central Australian desert. Each artist painted a different piece and once assembled we had one of the most remarkable pieces of Aboriginal Art we have seen. Check it out!

 

 

Didgeridoo Screen Wall Project in Sydney CBD

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Late last year Spirit Pharmaceuticals contacted us to help them with their ambitious plan to use 72 didgeridoos as a screen/partition wall as part of their refurbishments at their offices in the Sydney CBD.

 

After some consultation between Spirit Gallery and the designers we were able to come up with the final concept. The renovations have now been completed, as has the didgeridoo screen wall.

 

72 colourful full length didgeridoos were used and are now a permanent feature of their main office. Being didgeridoo addicts here at Spirit Gallery this was an awesome project to be involved with.

 

Many thanks to Spirit Pharmaceuticals and their CEO Gary Waters for giving us this opportunity and trusting us with the job, and of course for the purchase of 72 didgeridoos!

 

Check it out!

 

 

 

 

Spirit Gallery Update and Northern Territory Didgeridoo Trip

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The team at Spirit Gallery has been busy again finding you the best Eucalyptus didges Australia has to offer. Matt and Reno flew up to Darwin visiting several of our didge makers and choosing and sourcing some seriously good sticks.

 

We were also lucky enough to spend a day with Tristan O’Meara in the bush looking for didges giving us a whole new appreciation of how tough the work is – including the nasty sting of the green ant! (see photos below)

 

So stay tuned as we get some new handpicked didges from Earl Clements, Yidaki from Arnhem Land and our new affordable plain didgeridoo range.

 

YES, the only didge store to go that extra mile!! and you the customer benefits!

 

 

In other didgeridoo news, we are expecting in the next few weeks

 

• 15-25 new didges from Kristian Benton– Australia’s most recognised player, maker, artist combo.

 

• 15 new didges from CrookedStixz Didgeridoos.

 

• A whole bunch of new didges from Tristan O’Meara.

 

•10+ new didges from master craftsmen Bruce Rogers.

 

• Our new very affordable heavy duty oilskin didge bags in 6 different styles and sizes.

 

 

PLUS much more we can’t talk about at this stage!!!  It will be a didgeridoo bonanza here at Spirit Gallery over the next few months.

 

Finally, If there is a special key, style, size of didge you have been looking for and can’t find it OR if you just want an AMAZING DIDGE (ie the best we have) let us know and join our “AWESOME DIDGE” waiting list.

 

Spirit Gallery has pretty much all the top active full time didge makers in the country represented under the one roof and hence the largest range of high quality Eucalyptus didgeridoos in the planet- by far!!

 

As soon as we find what we think is that special didge we will let you know and give you first opportunity. We already have a waiting list for several keys so let us know ASAP.

 

Happy didgin!!

 

 

Reno choosing the best players for Spirit Gallery

Huge Termite Mounds in the Top End

Searching for Didges with Tristan O'Meara

Success- A Didgeridoo is Born

Green Ants

New Heartland Didgeridoos Now Available

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Tynon Bradford of Heartland Didgeridoos made the long trip down to Sydney from Bellingen and with him came approximately 25 of the nicest Heartland didgeridoos we think we have ever seen.

 

A master craftsmen with the utmost attention to detail, we are proud Tynon has chosen Spirit Gallery to be his primary retail outlet. Tynon keeps his finest work for Spirit Gallery including this crazy 3 metre didge pictured above.

 

Check out the new range of Heartland Didgeridoos!

 

Spirit Gallery Didgeridoos & William Barton at the Sydney Opera House

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Our good friend William Barton will be performing at the Sydney Opera House on Saturday 3rd August with the Australian Youth Orchestra. William came in earlier in the week before rehearsals to pick out the didgeridoos he will be using.

 

William knows a good didge when he sees one and these three beauties caught his attention- a CrookedStixz Didgeridoo (left) Tristan O’meara Didgeridoo (middle) and Bruce Rogers (right). Three of the countries top instrument makers all on stage at the Opera House- awesome!!

 

The Spirit Gallery team will be attending the event and there are still a limited number of tickets left for the evening.

 

Spirit Gallery Didgeridoo Road Trip

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Didge maker Tristan O'Meara (left) and Reno Safarian from Spirit Gallery loading up the van with didges

 

We regularly like to visit our makers and lucky for Matt and Reno of Spirit Gallery most of the top didge makers in the country are located in a 1000km stretch along the East Coast of Australia.

 

The boys went on a 4 day road trip leaving Sydney and finishing up at Byron Bay where they met up with Adam ” CrookedStixz” Henwood in his new home.

 

Along the way they visited Brad Hagelstein, Kristian Benton, Tristan Omeara and Nathan Burton. Our didge makers are our close friends and it was a great learning experience and catch up over the few days.

 

The good news for Spirit Gallery customers is they came home with over 150 didges. There are some amazing didges in this bunch from various makers at various price points

 

Nothing beats hand picking your didgeridoos and allows us to maintain the quality we are renowned for.

 

We will endeavour to upload all these didges onto our website over the next 3-4 weeks

 

 

New Tristan O’Meara Didgeridoos Have Arrived!

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A new batch of Tristan O’Meara didgeridoos is now available at Spirit Gallery.

 

Tristan’s didge crafting has gone to a new level and without doubt these are best sounding and most beautifully finished didgeridoos we have seen from him yet.

 

All Tristan O’Meara didgeridoos will come with a copy of his Album “southern breezes”

 

 A variety of styles, keys and prices to suit all budgets and playing styles.

 

If you want more information about a particular didge or just have a general enquiry about Tristan’s didges (or any others) we are always happy to help! Contact us at info@spiritgallery.com.au

 

Meanwhile, check out the new range of Tristan O’Meara didgeridoos