 My name is Cameron McCarthy. I'm an Aboriginal from North Queensland. I grew up in Cairns, born in Innisfil. The way our lineal system works I have to follow my mother's side so I claim myself as a good theology man. After high school I went to a dance college in Sydney. It's called NASA, the National Aboriginal Islander Skills Development Association. We study jazz dance, modern ballet and all that sort of stuff but we also do traditional dance and every year they take you on a traditional trip to different road area communities and they took us to Yerakala in the both East Ireland land on the Gov Peninsula and we spent a month there and while I was there I was adopted into a family and the day I left the family that adopted me gave me a didgeridoo as a gift and so I didn't want it to go to waste and just sit there and collect dust and so every day after we got back from the trip I sat down with the didgeridoo for about two or three hours every day just playing constantly. I'd play until my lip would bleed sometimes and then after about two or three weeks that's when I got the circular breathing. Here in the US I performed New York, New Jersey, Jackson Hole, Beverly Hill San Francisco, Las Vegas, Toledo. I've done things up in Canada for G'day Toronto. With the UN I got us to go to Geneva and I was an artist and a performer at an event in Geneva but my favorite venue that I've ever played at it happens to be here in Washington DC and that's the National Cathedral where we do the Anzac Day ceremony every year. The acoustics in there is just amazing. The first time we did it just made all my head stand up and it really stood out. My favorite gig that I've ever performed at was the 100 year anniversary of the Great White Fleet and so the Navy from Australia sent over to HMS Ballarat and HMS Sydney. So I was picked up by the Coast Guard in New York and I was flown out into the middle of the ocean and they put me on the HMS Ballarat and then as it came up the Hudson River they had me on the loudspeaker on the bow of the ship playing the didgeridoo so the sounds of the didgeridoo were echoing all the way out to the west side and then the ship behind us had the local ship band and they were playing ACDC dirty D so it was a nice contrast. So you had the didgeridoo, the traditional sounds and then you had the band with the heavy metals and the dirty gates.