{"id":12071,"date":"2021-08-26T10:24:38","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T09:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=12071"},"modified":"2021-08-26T10:24:38","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T09:24:38","slug":"musician-of-the-month-eamonn-cagney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2021\/08\/26\/musician-of-the-month-eamonn-cagney\/","title":{"rendered":"Musician of the Month: \u00c9amonn Cagney"},"content":{"rendered":"

I realised that I really like writing through doing this, and that there\u2019s plenty more to write, but for now here are a few aspects I\u2019d like to share with you.<\/span><\/p>\n

Vision<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Something I\u2019ve learned, beyond a doubt is how essential it is for any musician, artist or human being to cultivate a vision for yourself. Have an inner vision and find ways to develop it. It\u2019s for you alone and gives you confidence and uniqueness. Working on craft matters too. But for me, vision comes first and is fundamental. It\u2019s what inspires the consistent work. It animates practise, creativity, relationships, and brings wellness in ways that are hard to see except when it is absent.<\/p>\n

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Influences<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I grew up in the rural coastal Donegal community of Clooney, one of the most beautiful places in the world. Our horizons growing up were both small and vast. From the top of our hill you look out over the Atlantic, with Iniskeel, Arainn mh\u00f3r and Roaninish islands, the incredible Gaoth Beara river estuary, Cashelgoland and Narin strand; the magical Bluestacks, the south Donegal mountains sometimes called the Sliabh Aduaidh range, and a huge blanket bog that stretches from our house to Donegal town.<\/p>\n

In terms of the wider world and a vision of that, our doorway was TV. But we lived in a bubble really. It was honestly an amazing upbringing. Our parents gave us a lot of trust and freedom to wander and explore. There was a hazel wood beside our house and we were the only people that were ever in in it, apart from our neighbour farmer when he was looking for cattle.<\/p>\n

At the bottom of our lane is an old and vibrant oak bush growing out of the centre of a boulder.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a well-known local landmark especially with elderly people who said it was a parting stone for emigrants when they were leaving their families. There were fairy bushes, deer, seals, wild geese and winter swans, enchanted and haunted places, and really funny local characters.<\/p>\n

Our school had forty kids and two teachers. I tell stories to my friends about growing up, and, as the decades go by, I realise there\u2019s a great book in it.<\/p>\n

This upbringing and environment is probably my biggest musical influence. Many other forms and shapes of music and experience have also influenced me but something in this is fundamental. When I’m daydreaming or even just dreaming, it\u2019s this landscape: hazel woods, the hill, the mountains, the sea, the bog, the beach and the lake: this is my dreaming.<\/p>\n

Going Home, from my first album Convergence:<\/strong><\/p>\n