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Title: Other music.
Post by: icecubes4ever on April 21, 2011, 12:19PM
Has David composed songs for other Celtic groups like Celtic Thunder, The Hight Kings.....etc...I was just wondering.


Title: Re: Other music.
Post by: Dinozzzo on April 21, 2011, 12:26PM
The only thing I know it's he has worked with Riverdance as Musical Director. :D He met Lisa there.


Title: Re: Other music.
Post by: icecubes4ever on April 21, 2011, 12:31PM
Thanks! I would have thought, with as much talent he as, he would have done something big!


Title: Re: Other music.
Post by: OldFatGuy on April 21, 2011, 01:07PM
From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Downes_%28Irish_composer%29):

Original Songs

Downes has written many original songs for Celtic Woman, including: The Soft Goodbye, Send Me a Song, One World, The Sky and the Dawn and the Sun, At the Céili, Sing Out!, Granuaile's Dance, The Lost Rose Fantasia, The Blessing, The Call, Green the Whole Year Round, Walking The Night and Tabhair Dom Do Lamh. The lyricists with whom he has collaborated most are Caitríona Ní Dhúill, Barry McCrea, Shay Healy and Brendan Graham.

Television, film and theatre

His credits include Thou Shalt Not Kill, The Enemy Within, The Hunt For Red Willie at the Peacock Theatre, Jeff Daniels' Escanaba In The Moonlight and The Shaughraun at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin.[1]. He produced opening and closing songs, as well as acting as choral arranger for the Disney movie Tinkerbell and the Lost Treasure.