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Originally
from Belfast now living in Donegal, he has been writing
songs for 18 years playing in several bands in Belfast
including Admiral Spears and Stone River.
Over the last few years he has performed at the Belfast
folk festival with Guy Clark and Niabhe(neeve!) Parsons,
at the Harper Adams festival with indie band Republica,
and has had support slots with trad rock band Kila and
Delores' younger brother Sean Keane.
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"Based in Convoy having settled there three
years ago Gilpin has been writing songs since he
was eleven. His talent was honed by a musical family
in Belfast; a brother and sister who taught him
to play the guitar and his mother, a music teacher,
and ccomplished pianist. Later guitar lessons are
attributed to Victor Mc cCullough, Ian Smith and
Ted Ponsonby"
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From
the Belfast folk festival to the Jerusalem folk club,
he has played
throughout Europe, he has had various TV and radio appearances
in Holland, France, Sweden, Israel and back at home
in Ireland on both BBC and RTE networks.
Previous releases include the Greengrass CD 'Far far
away', the solo, self titled cassette album of 10 tracks
and, his song 'You bring me love' which features on
'Some Nerve' a compilation album of 5 tracks. This recording
was subsequently chosen as the title track of the RTE
commissioned film 'Quando'.
Beautiful Mistake features 12 tracks from this modern
day bard and features the electric guitar of ex wings
band member Henry McCullough, Dublin keyboardist James
Delaney, Donegal guitarist and dobro player Ted Ponsonby,
Tyrone fiddle player Cathal Hayden and Portaferry folk
singer Rosemary Woods. The album also features a 'hidden'
track produced by guitarist Steve Cooney.
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"In the distance can you hear, hear the trumpets
sound?
Sound a battlecry, cry out loud
'Love casts out all fear', fear it wears a shroud,
Gotta trade in your old clothes, anticipate the wedding
gown"
You coaxe a devil out of me -
In memory of the late Rev. Sydney Callaghan O.B.E.
©Richard Gilpin 2001
"The policeman comes to wake me up, at some ungodly
hour,
he said, 'what you doin' here son?' I said 'I'm, just
sleeping in my car'" Sleeping in the car
©Richard Gilpin 2001
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