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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Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace;
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is error, the truth;
Where there is doubt, the faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
And where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master,
Grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled, as to console;
To be understood, as to understand;
To be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.
