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TEDxNewy - Mark Jackson - Everybody deserves music...nope, scrub that...everyone should play music.

2,875 views · Published 11 December 2011 · 16:39 · Indexed 20 September 2026

Channel: TEDx Talks · 2011 · Music

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Mark Jackson has, at various times, been PhD student, childcare worker, geographer, university lecturer, mental health worker, and public transport activist. Through it all he has always been a musician and community focused kind of bloke. In late 2009 he created a job for himself as a 'community musician' that combined his work experience and passions into a single occupation and business. Always the unconventional Merewether boy, Mark learned a lot about community from living in Bendigo for a dozen years before returning to Newcastle to try his hand at helping people to play music together. He has succeeded admirably, taking a bunch of Novocastrian retirees (and hanger on-ers) to be feted as Australia's pre-eminent community uke group at the Melbourne (and Hawaii!) Ukulele Festivals. In the early 80s Mark was a member of the celebrated Castanet Club, and now explores 'blurgrass' with his band The Do Riders.

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