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Éamonn Coyne - banjo Éamonn now lives in Edinburgh, but is originally from Ireland (Dublin/Roscommon). His debut solo cd 'Through the Round Window' released in 2002 (Compass Records) featured various friends including Alison Brown, 5-string banjo astronaut from California via Nashville, Dermot Byrne (accordion and melodeon) and Ciarán Curran (bouzouki) both of Altan, Kevin Doherty (guitar and vocals) of Four Men and a Dog, Michael McGoldrick (flute) of Capercaille, Tom Morrow (fiddle) of Dervish, and Ethna Coyne (nano) his grandmother (accordion and vocals) and Russell's House members Sandy Wright and Russell Hunter. fRoots described it as 'utterly stunning'. Before this he had also performed and recorded with a vast array of people including Siobhán and Tommy Peoples, The Wrigley Sisters (cds 'Hunterland' and 'Mither o' the Sea'), Eileen Ivers (Ex Riverdance), Sharon Shannon, Jonny Hardie and Gavin Marwick (cd 'The Blue Lamp'), Bèla Fleck, Jerry Douglas, and Russell’s House (cd 'Russell’s House'). Éamonn currently tours and records with Scottish internationallly acclaimed band Salsa Celtica (cds 'El Agua de la Vida' and 'El Camino'). His most recent cd, with multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Kris Drever, 'Honk Toot Suite', was released in Jan 2007 again on Compass Records. Songlines described it as 'a breath of fresh air' with its 'mutually attuned musicianship of the first order’ and ‘its immense yet ultra-supple sophistication'. |
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