Here is a song with two of my loveliest friends on the cloud. It's a bit special I think. 

Paul's guitar part on its own is a beautiful filigree of gossamer threads and Emma's stunning voice and lyrics soar and shimmer above. I was nervous about adding anything, so I tiptoed around on the soprano sax and hoped for the best. 

I don't like using the word 'romantic' when it comes to music…but to me, this is romantic music in the best sense; pictorial, true to the heart, a thing of beauty and I'm so pleased to have had a tiny part in it. Please visit Emma and Paul's pages for more wonderful music

http://soundcloud.com/emma-shanley

http://soundcloud.com/paul-sale

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Moonlight Shimmers, Dave McKeown with Emma Shanley and Paul Sale

J'essaye, la musique, la mienne...
Des belles rencontres et des histoires particulières avec la musique. Et une écoute attentive, assidue depuis toujours.
Je fais donc tout, toute seule, chaque note est la mienne! Peu de connaissances techniques. Et parce qu'il est difficile de ne pas partager ce que l'on fait, je pose ici mes expériences sonores. Mais je n'oublie pas ce qu'est la musique, l'exigence, le dévouement, l'Amour qu'elle demande . Merci à ceux qui prendront le temps d'écouter, qui ne poseront pas un commentaire juste parce qu'il faut, ou parce qu'ils veulent que je les écoute en retour...qui ne seront pas dithyrambiques sans raison et qui sauront ramener à sa juste valeur ce que je fais. 

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I am a working full-time musician, teaching, performing, composing, recording and arranging, and my gigs in the last few years have included jazz combo, big band jazz, folk, Irish traditional, rock, soul, latin, klezmer, funk, orchestral, chamber, minimal techno, musical theatre and more, so, safe to say, I’ll have a go at anything. 

I'm a firm believer in demolishing boundaries between genres, cultures, languages and ultimately people, and Soundcloud is a terrific place where all this can happen.

I wrote this bio years ago now, but broadly its the same. The main difference is I have relocated in the country and now live with a professional musician and try and toot away at the Clarinet. I learned to read music, which has given me a boost of confidence. Anyway, the old Bio below:

Home recordings of original songs, using the instruments around and about the house, a computer, some new software and cables I trip over. The concertina was a recent addition and dulcimer, accordion, mandolin, piano, the saw and others feature. I'm a little instrument obsessed (I dream about them regularly and probably obsess about them like most women covet shoes) and love the fact that I finally have the facility to record - it's not just my own four walls that hear my musical venturing. A friend has let me borrow a Celtic harp and I've tentatively started a recording with that...so I hope to get quite a diverse range of twanging, plucking, wheezing and strumming up here over time. 

The consequence of an instrument obsession is that I have very few shoes. But that's probably a very good thing.