Sligo Contemporary Music School : learn to play using the Rockschool Method!

Primarily self-taught, SCMS co-founder Eddie has a Rockschool Grade 8 bass performance certificate and has studied jazz with Mike Nielsen in Chatham Row (now DIT) Dublin. Eddie was awarded an Arts Council Bursary in 2006 to study jazz at the renowned Global Music Foundation's Tuscany Summer School and Jazz Seminar in Certaldo, Italy. Eddie has also received double bass tuition from international jazz bassists Rufus Reid (USA) and Eric Revis (USA) as well as Arnie Somogyi (UK) and Philip Donkin (UK). Eddie is a director and administrator of Sligo Jazz Project (SJP), a volunteer-run organisation which has hosted the biggest jazz education event ever held in Ireland, Sligo International Summer School and Jazz Festival. An experienced performer, Eddie is a member of Sligo-based groups NoCrows and The Odd Couple. Eddie has performed and/or recorded with many well known Irish and international artists including Brian Kennedy, Kieran Goss, Frances Black, Café Orchestra, Louis Stewart, Sandro Gibellini, Mike Nielsen, Stocktons Wing, Those Nervous Animals and many more.