Alan Dargin

Alan Dargin was an indigenous Australian musician and songwriter known for being a didgeridoo player. He grew up in Wee Waa and started learning the instrument at age five from his grandfather and other Wiradjuri elders. His signature instrument was over a hundred years old and was made from a blood wood eucalypt. He received his secondary education at St Pius X High School, Newcastle. Dargin worked as a busker on the streets of Sydney. He appeared with various symphony orchestras, including the Vienna Philharmonic and the London Symphony Orchestra at Royal Albert Hall; as well as in the United States, Japan, and Europe. In 1983 Dargin appeared in a five-part ABC-TV miniseries, Chase Through the Night, alongside Nicole Kidman. He had the role of Bruce in the feature film, The Fringe Dwellers, and a cameo appearance in The Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert, as an Aboriginal man who joins the drag artists in a performance. On Bastille Day in 1994 he performed for the French President, François Mitterrand. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Da...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)