Lament for the Lickeen char
Channel: Danny Burke
Date: 2021-10-27

This is a lament, a "caoineadh",  played on bansuri (bamboo flute) accompanied by Tibetan singing bowl and vocalisation.
The subject of the lament is a glacial relict population of arctic char which lived in Lickeen Lake in County Clare in the west of Ireland which are thought to have become extinct in the last couple of decades.

Composed and played by Danny Burke, accompanied by Martha O'Brien, filmed by Michael Walsh at the Pavillion, Lisdoonvarna, 23 October 2021 as part of the symposium "Stories from the Bottom of the Lake". The piece was commissioned as part of the project "Ode to Lickeen Lake"