William Thoren of WET didgeridoos and creator of the WET multi drone and drop tone didgeridoos paid us a visit on his recent tour and visit of Australia. It was great to have him in store and observe his unique talented playing style.

Will was in Australia touring with George Clinton as their photographer and performing as Gorangutang at the Australian shows.

For more information on Will and his many talents visit him at http://www.williamthoren.com/ or http://www.wetdidgeridoo.com/

After our successful workshop last week, Mark Atkins was nice enough to give us a quick yet powerful demo for our YouTube channel.

He is using an incredible Brad Hagelstein didgeridoo in the key of E (part of the Spirit Gallery private collection!) Enjoy.

Our good friend Shibaten was kind enough to drag all his equipment up to our store and give us a rare intimate performance with the full ensemble. Two videos of his favourite songs.

Shibaten has finished his 3 month stint in Australia and will now head to Singapore, Japan and possibly to Europe or the USA to continue his unique one man performance to audiences around the world. We expect his return to Australia in the next 18 months.

Want to know more about this highly talented energetic performer http://www.shibatenspirits.com

OR check him out on Facebook where he has a huge following  https://www.facebook.com/shibaten

Scottish Born NZ based Kenneth Sand paid us a visit a few weeks ago. Kenneth has been teaching and playing didgeridoo for over 20 years and is one of those rare freakish players that is equally comfortable playing both traditional and contemporary didge.

He has studied Aboriginal music for years and also studied traditional crafting and playing under the great Djalu Gurruwiwi in North East Arnhem Land. He was authorised and requested by Djalu Gurruwiwi to share his experiences and knowledge to the rest of the world and encouraged by Djalu to continue teaching Didgeridoo to help foster awareness and respect of traditional Aboriginal cultures of Northern Australia.

Kenneth is also one of the few accomplished Bronze Age Horn players, having performed with both instruments regularly.

Kenneth formed the band “Resonance” in 1999, which led to him producing and recording the professional music CD called “Resonance-Organic Dance Didjeridu” which many people regard as one of the finest didgeridoos cd’s ever produced.

Definitely, one of our favourite store visits. Check him out!

Our good friend Kristian Benton visited us just after Christmas with a beautiful bunch of quality instruments.

He has been busy this year performing several times at the World Expo in South Korea as the Australian indigenous performer. He is about to embark on a tour of South Africa and will continue to make quality instruments exclusively for Spirit Gallery throughout 2013.

Check out some of the Kristian Benton Didgeridoos and watch the man at work below!