Pete Cummins - singer songwriter from Ireland.
Instruments- Guitar, Bass, Harmonica, Flute, Whistles, Keyboards------------
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THE BRILLIANT ARCHITECT available on ----iTunes www.CDbaby.com -- ----------------
In 2007 Pete released Flowers in Baghdad a single from the current CD--- THE BRILLIANT ARCHITECT the song was picked up by Neil Young’s living with war website www.neilyoung.com/lwwtoday----------------At eighteen pete was leading his band THE CIRCLE in Dublin, playing in beat clubs. 1968 he joined seminal Irish band GRANNY's INTENTIONS. They released one album HONEST INJUN on the Deram label.1972 he joined superstar DONOVAN. 1976 formed THE FAKE with Freddie White. 1980 managed Irish songwriter Tony Koklin who recorded for Chiswick records. 1985 with Johnny Moynihan, Frankie Lane, Jimmy Faulkner, Garvan Gallagher, and Fran Breen formed THE FLEADH COWBOYS. After Moynihan left Pete steered the band to great sucess with their highly sucessful Midnight at The Olympia shows. Over the next two years these shows featured a multitude of talent who would turn up announced to play with the great band. Those who appeared included such luminaries as Mike Scott and The Waterboys, Joe Ely, Nanci Griffith, Ronnie Drew, Shane McGowan and The Pogues, Altan, and a host of others. Dublin at this time was going through a period of depression and these shows, regularly attended by politicians, artists, and musicians alike, did a lot to lift the spirit of Dubliners at the time.
In 1988 the Fleadhs released their number one album
HIGH ACE TO HEAVEN,
The FLEADH COWBOYS toured with The Pogues, supported Bob Dylan who offered to release their
album on his own label , they were also invited to guest with U2 on the final night of the Lovetown tour at The Point in Dublin.
In 1998 the Fleadhs released their final album, TIME OF YOUR LIFE.
During the nineties Pete dueted with Nanci Griffith on her Grammy award winning album Other Voices Other Rooms, played guitar on the final studio recording by Townes Van Zandt, NO DEEPER BLUE, (produced by Philip Donnelly), Pete’s old buddy from the Donovan days. He also recorded and toured with The Chieftains, appeared and contributed a song to the Oscar winning Jim Sheridan movie, In The Name Of The Father, appeared in films, The Boxer, Green Journey, the Roddy Doyle TV series, Family, , The Disappearance of Finbar, A Man Of No Importance and Frankie Starlight. ---
The Brilliant Architect is available on iTunes and
www.CD Baby.com. ---
Contact; Frank Murray 085 788 5933
Europe Promotion; Peter Holmstedt:
peter.holmstedt@telia.com
+46 33 26 02 10-----or
cumminspr@eircom.net
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