Damanta's lyrics & chords

Damanta was formed in 2005. In 2003 I learned how to play the bodhran from Michael Viens at the Wolf & Hound in Vancouver. Then went to Ireland and began playing the uilleann pipes (and dabbling in whistles) and, in 2005, bought my first lute (of the Irish bouzouki type) from The Four Corners in Galway. My uilleann pipe teachers have been few: Tim Fanning (Vancouver), lessons in Milltown, then John McSherry in Belfast (Lunasa, Sharon Shannon, At First Light). Damanta was taken as a name from a poem I'd translated into song, "We Are Damned...read more