Sligo Life

S1 EP 23 Barinthus Suite by Eddie Lee and David Lyttle


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In 2013 David Lyttle and Eddie Lee wrote a Suite called the Barinthus Suite and it world premiered at the Hawks Well, who commissioned it. Inspired by Sligo’s Neolithic landscape, it featured some internationally renowned jazz and trad musicians.

I interviewed Eddie a few weeks ago you can listen here - 

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1100048/5305732-s1-ep19-eddie-lee-musician-photographer.mp3?blob_id=21462037&download=true

Here is some more about Eddie that he shared with me for our previous podcast 

As a pro musician of more than 3 decades, I’ve guested on a Grammy-nominated Enya album, toured and recorded with artists on several continents across many genres of music, including NoCrows, Dervish, Those Nervous Animals, Stockton’s Wing, A Woman’s Heart and the Pale. In 2013 I sang in Ennio Morricone’s choir for his Irish concerts and was commissioned to co-write a suite of music by the Hawks Well Theatre and appeared in Ken Loach’s Jimmy's Hall as a jazz musician. Each July I have been instrumental in bringing the best jazz musicians on the planet to Sligo to teach and perform at Sligo Jazz Project’s annual summer school and festival. I enjoy travelling through my music career and it’s probably this I really miss the most during the current pandemic. 

More recently I have explored my love for photography and the landscape of my home county Sligo in particular. In the lockdown period I have been studying and learning about various aspects of photography and with the uncertainty surrounding the entertainment business hope to forge a career as a photographer over the coming months and years L, branching out into portrait work as well as my landscape and Milky Way/night Sky work. 

I have also been doing a Wednesday night jazz & world music show on radiosligo.com

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Sligo LifeBy Clodagh Higgins