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Connecting and building communities through music | Alex Salvador | TEDxTownsville

Using musical instruments ranging from 15 to 3,000 years old, Alex demonstrates how the mere timbre of an instrument has the ability to speak to people. Through his personal story, he explores how music has the amazing ability to connect musicians and non-musicians alike and in the process, giving people a sense of belonging and building communities. Alex Salvador has been exploring music since the young age of 8 when he first started to play the piano. In his teenage years, Alex learned to play the guitar, didgeridoo and drum kit and later in life expanding his interest to other exotic instruments which include African drums (Djembe and Dunduns), Congas, Kamele N’goni, Balafon, Tongue drums, Hand Pan, Armenian Duduk, Nigerian Udu, middle eastern Tar, Tibetan singing bowls, clarinet and a variety of hand percussion Alex is the founder and facilitator of the longest running, local council supported community drum circle in Queensland, if not Australia - the Full Moon Drum Circle. The FMDC was established in 2001 and regularly attracts up to 600 people to the event. He is the group leader of African style drumming group, Wassa Rhythms of West Africa, performing throughout North Queensland and as far as PNG since 2000. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx