XAVIER RUDD

Australian musician and activist Xavier Rudd has, from the very beginning, a combination of humanity and surfing with a healthy obsession with roots music. Rudd is a multi-instrumentalist and most of the time, a one-man band plays in a complicated array: Typically, he has three didgeridoos placed in front of him on a stand, a guitar on his lap, a stomp box by his habitually bare feet, and an assortment of drums, banjos, harmonicas, bells, and as, the case may be. He takes this setup with him on his tours, relying on word of mouth rather than record labels for him. His albums, several of them live recordings, are most often for sale at these sold-out gigs.