I am truly honoured to have been invited to be a speaker at the inaugural TedX Townsville Event taking place on Saturday 30th May at James Cook University. The theme of the day is "Curiosity" and I will be speaking about "The Magic of Vib

In November 2014, my friend Cheryl Oats, emailed me a short video clip of a guy near Byron Bay selling "Hang-style drums". If you are not familiar with the "Hang Drum" - it is an instrument invented in Switzerland only a couple of decades ago. Similar to a Carribean steel pan except this one is conv

I have had the honour of being invited to at least four weddings in the last few years to facilitate a drum circle with the guests. The activity is consistently a big hit with the crowd especially as an activity to bring all the guests together between the formal wedding ceremony and the reception.T

Saturday music lessons at the Salvador household has kicked off again in 2015. Every Saturday morning, I hold a 45 minute music making session with my son and his friends from school. Each week they explore music using drums, percussion and guitar.This year the focus is on guitar so the group is lea

Two friends came to me recently cradling their beloved djembes with broken skins. A quick call to my skin supplier and within a week, the new goat skins arrived. Here is what the two djembes looked like as I received them, Denise’s on the left and Scott’s on the right.After removing the old skin