Jerry Walsh is a musician, vocalist, and beatboxer mixing ancient instruments and techniques such as the didgeridoo, Peruvian pan flute, hang drum (handpan), and Tuvan throat singing with electronic looping and sampling, experimental hip-hop rhythms and lyrics revolving around mysticism and social activism. He has performed and taught at Sonic Bloom Festival, Gratitude Festival, Mysteryland Festival in Chile, Unifier Festival, Alex Grey's Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, and Cosmic Convergence Festival in Guatemala performing solo and in collaboration with Merkaba (Kalya Scintilla) and Srikalogy.
Jerry was featured performing original music on the Hang drum in Episode 13 Season 4 of the Orange is the New Black season finale at the 52:35 minute mark. He has collaborated with Amy Secada, Bboy Neguin, and Supaman to create music for the Nau Project video, which will premier in the coming year. Jerry has worked alongside internationally acclaimed sculpture artist, Kate Raudenbush, for the past four years bringing large scale laser-cut steel allegorical and spiritually inspired installations to New York City, San Francisco, Baltimore, Black Rock City, Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and Santiago in Chile. He will be creating music for her most upcoming Burning Man project, Helios.
Jerry has been a student of Maestro Manuel Rufino for over four years, studying the sacred traditions of humanity focusing primarily on the shamanic traditions of the Indigenous cultures of the Americas. He has travelled to over twenty five different countries on five continents and spent a full year studying Buddhism and Himalayan culture in India, Nepal, and Bhutan from 2010-2011. He currently works with BEAT NYC, a non-profit that teaches Hip-Hop and Beatboxing in NYC public schools and teaches and peforms with Didge Project, a didgeridoo-based world music collective . He is a founding member of the Sacred Arts Research Foundation 501 (c) 3 and the Ark in Greenpoint, Brooklyn where he resides with the Golden Drum community.
Jerry was featured performing original music on the Hang drum in Episode 13 Season 4 of the Orange is the New Black season finale at the 52:35 minute mark. He has collaborated with Amy Secada, Bboy Neguin, and Supaman to create music for the Nau Project video, which will premier in the coming year. Jerry has worked alongside internationally acclaimed sculpture artist, Kate Raudenbush, for the past four years bringing large scale laser-cut steel allegorical and spiritually inspired installations to New York City, San Francisco, Baltimore, Black Rock City, Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and Santiago in Chile. He will be creating music for her most upcoming Burning Man project, Helios.
Jerry has been a student of Maestro Manuel Rufino for over four years, studying the sacred traditions of humanity focusing primarily on the shamanic traditions of the Indigenous cultures of the Americas. He has travelled to over twenty five different countries on five continents and spent a full year studying Buddhism and Himalayan culture in India, Nepal, and Bhutan from 2010-2011. He currently works with BEAT NYC, a non-profit that teaches Hip-Hop and Beatboxing in NYC public schools and teaches and peforms with Didge Project, a didgeridoo-based world music collective . He is a founding member of the Sacred Arts Research Foundation 501 (c) 3 and the Ark in Greenpoint, Brooklyn where he resides with the Golden Drum community.