who is chris holland?

Chris Holland is more than just a didgeridoo player, didgeridoo teacher, didgeridoo performer and storyteller based in East Devon.

He is self-employed as a bushcraft, didgeridoo, environmental art, nature awareness, outdoor play and storyteller 'person'. He started trading as wholeland during 2001, and has visited over 100 different schools to deliver didgeridoo events alone, since then.

He has been playing the didgeridoo since he met a yidaki (a proper Australian Aboriginal didgeridoo) in a shop in Bath, England, during 1993. Chris started teaching didgeridoo in Cranleigh Prep School in 1997 and is now known by thousands of school children as “the didgeridoo man!” in schools across the south west of England.

The didgeridoo man is aware that he is a whitefella playing a blackfellas traditional instrument, so he is respectful, gets painted up to remind himself he is part of the land, makes a lot of his own didges and tells stories in the public domain. When he gats painted-up an extra £20 is donated to Survival International Chris has produced a wonderful CD called FUNDIJERI.

He has played with many different musicians and bands over the years, and to name drop, here is a list of a few: Jabberwocky, The Joyce Gang, Hawkwind, Baka Beyond, Paul Robertson, Andy Letcher, and Kizmet.

Most recently Chris played didge to Eric Clapton and some of England’s finest sports personalities at an Ashes themed charity event during May 2009 London. Chris opened the evening by playing to an all star audience over 1200 strong at the Bunbury Bashes, in the Great Hall at the Grosvenor Hotel, Park Lan. He even managed to get one of his didgeridoos signed by the great guitarist.