Coulter arranging and producing as well as performing, he can surpass even the best written piece and you end up remembering what he did to it, and not the original. I know people who use his music to relax and contemplate the finer things in life. By the same token I know there are an equal amount, who use the music to inspire themselves and I know I have used it for much more. The piano is always to the forefront of his sound and yet he is unafraid to have his guesting musicians shine on these recordings too.
He has worked with some first class musicians and singers over his many years at the top of his profession. To show you how popular she became with this tune, in more recent years, she ran for Irish government.
His catalogue is monumental and so many people listen to his music and pass it on to their friends. So there are always listeners being converted! What better way to pass on the music? He has won award after award for his works, and rightly so.
I have come to believe there must be something in the water up there as for one instance, the female singers from there are extraordinary, sisters Mary and Cara Dillon, just two that come to mind.
Energetic, sometimes peaceful, but without a doubt, always entertaining. That is what Coulter is all about. Ireland's Most Haunted Castle. South-east of Birr between Kinnity and Roscrea, in Co. Offaly are the remains of Leap Castle. Dublin girl who got Ronaldo jersey 'will not face any fine' - FAI. Frank Lampard pulls out of Norwich City managerial talks. Live: Title Now playing. Added to queue. Removed from queue. Now playing Schedule On Air. Episode title. You currently have no podcasts in your queue.
Go to podcasts. He eventually formed a song-writing partnership with Bill Martin — Coulter as the musical genius with Martin as the savvy businessman — writing hits to order for teen sensations like the Bay City Rollers and Eurovision-winning songs for Sandie Shaw and Cliff Richard. His attitude to song-writing changed a little a few years later when he was brought in to produce the Dubliners, who were hitting a career slump.
Luke Kelly was constantly trying to convince him to write songs with a bit more depth, he says. The first time he did so came from genuine heartache. In he and Angela had a second child, Paul, who had Down Syndrome. It was not something you could ignore. You come home at the end of the evening and Paul was there, and seeing how my wife was coping with it more readily than I was In the process of coming to terms with what was happening he wrote Scorn Not his Simplicity.
Paul died in , but the song he inspired is still played and appreciated. That was the first time something deeply personal gave rise to a song. Kelly, a committed socialist, was also encouraging Coulter to write political material just as politics were becoming intensely personal for Derry people. I wrote a song called Free the People, which was an anti-internment song.
But it broke a logjam in my head, and I started writing about what was happening. His support for his city became an important part of his life. He became president of Derry FC for a while. Coulter found himself sheltering under his grand piano where he was joined by another man apparently more inured to such things.
Has he seen Derry Girls? Coulter went on to become something of a musical voice for moderation. It was particularly fitting, he says, because Galway comes from a Protestant background and learned to play flute in an Orange band.
In the late s, he was offered an OBE but rejected it. The United Kingdom has been very good to me. I was never made feel awkward or second-class being Irish His marriage to Angela ended in and he went on to start a family with Geraldine Brannigan. In he also ended his partnership with Bill Martin and shortly thereafter, decided to become a performer in his own right, with his first solo piano album Classical Tranquillity.
He somehow retained a love of playing music for its own sake.
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