Bruce Rogers (5)

Australian didgeridoo maker, performer and teacher, based in Naarm / Melbourne, Victoria.

Bruce Rogers (14 March 1964 – 18 July 2016) become acclaimed as the world's best non-indigenous didgeridoo maker, among its finest players, a brilliant educator, international ambassador and advocate. He become famous for his annual tours to Europe beginning in 1997. His signature didgeridoo playing style involved masterful complex rhythms, hypnotic and evocative resonances and "big wide sky" dreaming. As a solo artist, Bruce's debut album, Cloudhands, is considered a classic. He also recorded albums with groups Tongue and Groove (T & G) and Mantramancy. His uniquely crafted and symbolically unpainted didgeridoos are now prized works of art. Bruce began playing didgeridoo in 1985 and teaching the instrument from 1990. In 1994 he began working full-time as a didgeridoo maker, after having started building didgeridoos in 1992.