Sometimes, opportunities arise that we can’t say no to. One such opportunity happened in October 2021, when I walked into Cool Discs and Kevin Magee asked me if I wanted to take over from him writing the music column for the Derry News (I’ll let you guess what my answer was). Recently, another opportunity arose that was too good to pass up.
Jenni Doherty (owner of Little Acorns Bookshop in Great James Street) got in touch to say that Keith Donald, legendary saxophone player for Moving Hearts and Mary Coughlan, was coming in for a book launch and asked if I wanted to speak to him.
I met with Keith in the shop that evening and he told me about his seventy-year career and his new book ‘Music & Mayhem’ (available now in Little Acorns).
Speaking of the book: “I’ve been writing it on and off for about a dozen years, and …