ANAM:

 

Ó thosaigh mé ag ceol nuair a bhí mé óg, tá an t-ádh liom go raibh deiseanna agam an cheird a fhorbairt. Le déanaí táim an bhuíoch go bhfuil níos mó ócáid agam chun an ceol nua a cur i láthair agus cruthaitheacht ealaíne a cur leis.

I play music on guitar, low whistle, frame drum, sruti box and I sing, I have been composing music and writing songs since I started on the tin whistle and a little keyboard at the age of five. Only in the past few years have I grown in confidence to begin sharing and performing more.

When I was 14 I decided to look for a guitar teacher and began studies in Classical Guitar with Derrick Long who had studied with John Williams: I am grateful for the discipline that gave me. An interest in the anthropology of music brought me to study an MA in Ethnomusicology in UCC ( 2008). The late Tony Langlois was my thesis supervisor who also taught a course on frame drum and North African music. I wrote about my own journey as an outsider trying to learn Sean nós singing for my thesis. Since last year, there has been an appearance of some original music for guitar and collaborating with Classical Guitarist/ Composer Finn Pitcher on some new pieces : you can listen to my part of a recording of a piece from Imagined Trains here.

Below you can learn more and listen to music composed with children in schools. More recordings of devotional music, guided meditation and original songs are available on Soundcloud and Bandcamp.

Tar Liom is a performance of storytelling, original songs, Sean nós songs, music on low whistle in Irish and English, sharing my own story and journey with the Irish language, set against a film of the Ox Mountains, Co. Mayo.

Contact me if you would like to arrange a performance.

Music in Schools | Ceol & Cruthaitheacht

Creative Ireland Artist in Residence Programme

Clann Lir | The Children of Lir

This was a wonderful project that led to the recording of three original bilingual songs that were composed with the children. You can learn more about the project and watch videos with the songs through the link below. There is also an online book that you can read and listen to the music as part of the story here

Here is a video from the launch of the Mayo Story Map project where the children also performed their songs.

Disco Penguins

Original song composed with the children of Tavneena Primary School, Charlestown, Co. Mayo. You can listen to more of these original songs composed with the children on bandcamp

With pupils of Tavneena Primary School, Castlebar Co. Mayo, on our recording day with Music Generation’s Philip Cassidy and supported by transition year students who helped recording process from St Muredachs College, Moyne College and St Marys Secondary School.

Music, Mantra & Healing