This weekend, South Enders have the chance to submerge themselves into Aboriginal music, story telling and healing.

Ash Dargan, an award-winning musician from Australia, is performing at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Whidbey Institute at Chinook in Clinton. Dargan will take audiences on a breathtaking multi-media journey into the Australian outback.

“It’s so much more than a didgeridoo concert. It’s really an artist speaking from his heart,” said Sherry Auer, who organized the event.

Dargan showcases his storytelling and didgeridoo performance creating a living, breathing dialogue between the sounds of the Australian outback and the stories of myth and magic found on his travels through the Northern Territory.

“He has a wonderful way of telling stories and bringing it all to life,” Auer said.

In performance, Dargan uses digitally recorded samples of Australian songbirds, wildlife and environmental sounds that he has collected on his travels throughout Australia, Auer said.

These sounds are layered seamlessly into live performances, creating what Dargan calls his “Eco/Tribal Living Pulse” of Australia. Percussive beats created from the sounds of frogs, crickets, song birds and the elements of nature are mixed into grooves that breathe with the spirit of Australia.

Dargan also masters an impressive collection of ethnic world flutes, melded into his music with his visceral vocal harmonies.

He also incorporates pictures of the land and people. The effect is both powerful and intoxicating to the senses, Auer added.

“It’s the combination of stories he tells and pictures he shows. It creates a wonderful atmosphere and deeper appreciation for nature,” Auer said.

“I think this will resonate with the people on South Whidbey,” she said.

Auer had seen Dargan play in Colorado a few years ago.

After a journey to Australia this year deeply touched her, she kept thinking that she would like to bring Dargan and the story of the aborigines to the people of South Whidbey.

The rich culture of Australia’s natives and their suffering over the course of history fascinated Auer. And studying their customs helps her connect spiritually to another part of the world, she said.

“As I looked at my motivation for bringing Ash to Whidbey Island, I got a glimpse of an even larger story,” Auer said.

“I believe this is about world work. It’s about healing the pain and wounds of the past so the suffering can stop. It’s about the power of love and forgiveness. It’s about oppressed people being able to move through their pain and bring forth something that is so healing that it can reach into people’s hearts and hopefully bring about change,” she added.