Damanta

Damanta is the Irish/Celtic music project begun in 2005 by Elegwen O'Maoileoin. O'Maoileoin writes "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).