Ross Daly

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Ross Daly (2007)

Ross Daly (born September 29, 1952 in King's Lynn ) is a world musician of Irish descent. The main instrument of the multi-instrumentalist is the Cretan lyre .

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Daly, son of Irish parents, spent his early childhood in Canada and then lived in the United States, where he learned to play the cello. At the age of eleven he learned classical guitar in Japan. In the late 1960s he came into contact with Asian music in Los Angeles. He studied sitar and worked with Ravi Shankar , among others . Since the early 1970s, he traveled to Crete several times and studied the Cretan lyre with Kostas Mountakis . From 1975 he lived in Crete and in 1982 founded the Musical Workshop Labyrinth in Houdetsi near Heraklion , an institution dedicated to training musicians in traditional music.

Daly has performed at numerous traditional music and world music festivals. He was musical director of the Crete, Music Crossroads program at the 2004 Summer Olympics , in which three hundred international musicians performed fifteen concerts, including Jordi Savall , Eduardo Niebla , the group Huun-Huur-Tu , Habil Aliyev , the Dhoad Gypsies of Rajasthan , Mohammad Rahim Khushnawaz , the Trio Chemirani and Adel Salameh . With the lyre player Kelly Thoma and the Laouto player Giorgos Manolakis he forms the Ross Daly Trio . He forms another ensemble with Yurdal Tokcan , Zohar Fresco and Kelly Thoma, and he also appears with several groups that arose from the labyrinth project. In the Iris project he works with Hamid Khabbazi , Pedram Khavar Zamini , Dhruba Ghosh , Partha Sarathi Mukherjee , Vassilis Rakopoulos , Kelly Thoma and Giorgis Xylouris .

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SURNAME Daly, Ross
BRIEF DESCRIPTION World musician and multi-instrumentalist of Irish descent
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH King's Lynn