Musician, composer, songwriter and Rye resident Michel Duvoisin died suddenly and unexpectedly on Sunday night and his humour and endless enthusiasm will be recalled with sadness and shock by all those who knew him.
He featured in Rye News over the years in a number of roles, all musical and often involving films for which he had composed scores, but his talents cropped up in a variety of roles - whether it was sounding a trumpet tribute at a Mary Stanford lifeboat disaster service at Rye Harbour, or sounding the Last Post on a bugle at the annual Remembrance Sunday services at St Mary's church in Rye.
The photo shows him accompanying actor Martin Wimbush getting stuck into Shakespeare during the Rye Arts Festival in 2015 and on other occasions he popped up at the Music Well and the 2015 Rye International Film Festival.
And he was a performer as well as a composer appearing at the "Wipers" Inn doing a gig with "AS IS" with his bass and backing vocals. Back in the 80s he had been one half of The Footsore Pilgrims. He had trained as a classical trumpet player in Boston in the United States.
It was as a composer though that he appeared at the Kino answering questions about his soundtrack to the film "Tony Benn: Will and Testament" and others may have many more memories of him.
