Gary Diggins began his musical career in the Detroit area working as an opening act for performers ranging from Alice Cooper to Sly and the Family Stone. In his early twenties, Gary met a Columbian shaman. That encounter shifted his orientation from the performing arts to the healing arts. His interdisciplinary studies led him into the fields of psychology, spiritual directorship, grief counselling, and ethnomusicology.

For the past four decades, he has maintained an expressive arts practice that blends the therapeutic use of sound with counselling. His service is called Soundwork as Soulwork. As an educator, Gary has taught internationally at various learning institutes and universities. He mentors practitioners in person as well as online.

Gary’s has written five books related to music as medicine. His current guidebook, is entitled Liminality - Traversing the In-Between - A Guidebook for Therapists and Expressive Arts Practitioners. 

Gary plays a range of acoustic instruments collected from around the world. His musical collaborations have taken him to India, Africa, Europe, South Korea, Israel, and throughout North America, including a performance at New York’s Carnegie Hall. Gary and his family currently live on a rural property near Meaford, Ontario with three cats and a dog named Sita.