Giant of Percussion: The Lambeg Drum with Dame Evelyn Glennie

The Lambeg drum is an instrument unique to Ulster. It is a traditional goatskin drum on a wooden shell and is one of the loudest percussion instruments in the world, and is played with sticks made from cane. World-renowned percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie performs with the greatest orchestras and performers around the world and is a double Grammy Award winner and Bafta nominee. Her collection of more than 2,000 percussion instruments from around the world includes a Lambeg. In this short film Dame Evelyn shares with the Ulster-Scots Agency how she was introduced to the drum and her personal reflections of the instrument.