DES LACEY- PERCUSSIONIST
Des Lacey is a Dublin based drummer/percussionist. As a teenager he started his career in various Showbands while studying both Jazz and Classical playing.
He has since worked in every style of music. He has performed/recorded with numerous Acts including Eleanor Mc Evoy, Katie Melua, R.T.E Concert Orchestra, Colm Wilkinson, Ronan Tynan Eimear Quinn, Irish Film Orchestra, The Dubliners, The Celtic Tenors, Daniel o Donnell Joan Rivers, Karen Egan, Tony Christie, Finbar Wright, Cor na Nog Cormac Kenevey, Declan O Rourke, Ciara Sidine, Celtic Thunder, The Hot House Big Band and The Take 3 Jazz Trio.
He has recently completed tours of Holland and Belgium with Belfast artist Peter Corry, U.K Australian and American tours with Daniel o Donnell and Mary Duff, Irish dates with Rebecca Storm, Red Hurley and Michael English and played at the Celtic Connections Festival in Glasgow with traditional Irish group Four Men and A Dog.
Recent Theatre productions include Improbable Frequency at The Gaiety Theatre, Anglo The Musical at The Bord Gais Energy Theatre, The Threepenny Opera at The Gate Theatre and Cinderella at The Gaiety Theatre
He was a member of the orchestra for the BBC Television Special celebrating the inauguration of Derry as UK City of Culture and is a current member of the band Telegraph featuring singer/songwriter Kevin Doherty.
He also devised the Percussion Workshop “From Heartbeat to Drumbeat”.
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God has created me to do Him some definite service. He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission. I may never know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good; I shall do His work. I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place, while not intending it if I do but keep His commandments.
Therefore, I will trust Him, whatever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him, in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him. If I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. He does nothing in vain. He knows what He is about. He may take away my friends. He may throw me among strangers. He may make me feel desolate, make my spirits sink, hide my future from me. Still, He knows what He is about.
Bl John Henry Newman
