Xavier Rudd (AUS)Musician-activist Xavier Rudd from Southern Australia is a charismatic one-man band, though his main instruments are guitar and digeridoo. His music is a highly entertaining acoustic reggae-folk-rock-blues mix. In many of his songs, he tackles social and societal problems, environmentalism and conservation issues, and Aboriginal Australian spirituality and rights. Rudd’s songs, sung with compassion, urge the celebration of life: ‘My music is about good spirit. It’s all about peace and happiness.’

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