A member of the Larrakia Nation, the traditional land owners of Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia, Ash is an ambassador of his culture through his music, storytelling and live performances. Ash was classically trained in music from the age of eight on trumpet and came back to his cultural roots at the age of twenty two. His grandmother and great uncle, both traditional elders of the Larrakia people were instrumental in his musical adoption of the Didgeridoo and its deeper cultural significance. Through them he came to know of the Didgeridoo's unlimited potential for the expression of rhythm and its ability to represent the power of the natural and spiritual worlds. The vocal harmonies used in traditional corroboree‘s (ceremonies) and the natural voice of Australia's native song birds have also had a great influence on his musical compositions.

1997-2000 Ash tasted his first major success recording with world music producer Jim Wilson on a compilation album entitled "Tulku Season of Souls," a Polygram release that went top ten in the US World Music charts. After touring abroad in 1998 Ash returned to Australia and was snapped up by the most successful indigenous recording label in Australia, Indigenous Australia, creating over the next few years a body of work that has sold over 500,000 units. Ash's exploration into world fusion rhythms with his releases Earth Rhythms, Ash Dust & Dirt and Sticks Bones and Song Stones have become popular world drum and Didgeridoo cd's in Australia, Japan and the USA. In 2000 Ash's release through Sony Australia “Indigenous Rhythms” was nominated for Release of the Year at the Australian National Indigenous Music Awards 2000.

2001-2004 After a sell out national tour of Japan in 2001 Ash went back home to the Northern Territory and over the next two years created his seminal work TERRITORY a multi media live performance show enabling him to take audiences around the world on a journey into the creation myths of the Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime. Since 2003 Ash has been touring the TERRITORY throughout the world.

2005-06 The launch of Ash's latest CD STORIES OF WIND at the Toronto world music festival has Ash unleashing his upbeat Didge/eco tribal beat driven grooves laced with live vocals and sensuous ethnic flutes to an ever growing world audience. Early in 2005 Ash was contracted by the Northern Territory Tourist Commission to supply the music for their new international advertising campaign.

"Ash is a bridge between the entire world music sound of this century and what is happening here in Indigenous Australia. Ash as a composer has an ear for what we all want to hear."
Gavin Jones, Editor of Deadly Vibe. Australia's national indigenous magazine