Music performance, Rory Hoffman, TEDx Nashville Salon

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Multiinstrumentalist Rory Hoffman s performance extended an allin invitation to TEDxNashville CREO to enjoy a journey to the land beyond sound and vision. Rory Hoffman is a Nashville based guitarist, keyboardist and multiinstrumentalist. Raised on a small ranch in North Dakota, Rory grew up recording and touring with the family Gospel band. He started teaching himself to play guitar and piano at age 3. By age 5 he was the drummer in the family band. He currently plays over a dozen stringed, keyboard and wind instruments. Rory s personal musical career was jumpstarted in 1999 upon winning Grand Champion Instrumentalist at the Christian Artist Seminar in the Rockies. In 2001 he traveled to Nashville for the first time to record his Gospel instrumental CD, Blind Faith. He then helped form Depot Music Productions, based in Mobridge South Dakota. There he selfproduced his se