Stephen Kent

Stephen Kent is a global superstar; the multi-instrumentalist has collaborated with the best of the best world musicians (including this country’s own Steve Roach) across a span of continents and has put out several solo albums and dozens of EPs and LPs as part of one group or another. In 1988, one of Kent’s projects, Lights in a Fat City, released the LP Somewhere on the These Records label; it was the first contemporary release of didgeridoo music in the northern hemisphere. And that’s far from where Kent’s story stops: He formed Trance Mission in 1992 with Beth Custer, John Loose and Kenneth Newby; he’s developed a solid solo career over the past ten years; and he’s currently part of Australian Bebop Ragas with Teed Rockwell and Sameer Gupta. His latest project, Baraka Moon, includes Geoffrey Gordon on drums and Sukhawat Ali Khan on vocals. Fans of world music in general and the didgeridoo in particular won’t want to miss this impresario’s intimate set.