My husband, Rich McMahon, who has taken his own life aged 42, was a songwriter and performer who managed to pack a lot into his life, performing countless live gigs, recording a number of albums, contributing to soundtracks and using his music to enhance the lives of others.
Rich released his first album, Rest Awhile, in the late 90s, and his second, The Sky Is Getting Higher, in 2007, the same year he scored the music for the soundtrack to Veiled Existence, an independent, Cannes-premiered film about a young Indian woman who flees an arranged marriage. In 2010 he released Last Orders at the Journey’s End, followed by a live album recorded in Ireland in 2012 called Live at Croc an Oir.
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