Multi Instrumentalist/Composer Stephen Kent’s journey had it’s beginnings in East Africa, morphed into an adolescence in the UK, exploded on the European music scene through the vocal music of Furious Pig and was transported to Australia in 1981 where, as Music Director of Circus Oz, he connected with the land, with Aborigines and with the Didgeridoo. Over the following 25 years Stephen has become one of the preeminent contemporary Didgeridoo artists on the planet with a recording career that spans well over two decades and a catalog of more than 20 CD’s, including 6 solo works showcasing the Didjeridu in a wide variety of both solo and collaborative settings that have been received with wide acclaim all over the world. The band projects Trance Mission, Beasts of Paradise & Lights in a Fat City established Stephen as a collaborative musician at heart and he’s continued expanding his musical connections all along, performing and sometimes recording with a host of musicians from many diverse parts of the world including, Airto Moreira (Brazil), Chirgilchin (Tuva), Habib Koite (Mali), Zakir Hussain (India), Omar Sosa (Cuba), Zap Mama (Belgium, Congo), Yassir Chadly (Morocco), Choi Jong Sil (Korea) Leonard Eto (Japan) and many more. He continues to innovate, now working with 2 new trio projects, Australian Bebop Ragas, and Baraka Moon and also performs with his partner Eda Maxym‘s band, Imagination Club. For the past 15 years he has produced a popular and eclectic weekly radio show, Music of the World on North America’s flagship listener-sponsored radio station, KPFA 94.1 FM. http://stephenkent.net