Frankie Gavin (musician)

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Frankie Gavin

Frankie Gavin, b.1956, Corrandulla, County Galway, is a fiddle player of traditional Irish music.

Frankie Gavin is from a musical family; parents and siblings being players of the fiddle and accordion. As a child he played the tin whistle and, later, the flute. He received some formal training in music, but his musical ability on the fiddle is mainly self-taught.[1] When 17 years old, he gained first place in both the All Ireland Under-18 Fiddle and Flute competitions.[2] [3]

In the early 1970s Gavin played musical sessions at Galway's Cellar Bar, with Alec Finn (bouzouki/guitar), Mickey Finn (fiddle), Charlie Piggott (banjo), and Johnnie (Ringo) McDonagh (Bodhrán).[4] In 1974, from these and further sessions, he founded the group De Dannan with Alec Finn. When De Dannan split-up in 2003, Gavin founded a new group, Frankie Gavin and The New De Dannan, which led to an acrimonious exchange between Gavin and Finn; Finn claimed to have registered the De Dannan name.[5]

Gavin has also played and recorded with Andy Irvine, The Rolling Stones, Elvis Costello, Stéphane Grappelli, and Frankie Goes to Hollywood,[6] and in 2010 became reputedly the fastest fiddle-player in the world, with an entry in the Guinness Book of Records.[7]

Selected discography

Solo
  • Up and Away (1995)
  • Frankie Gavin (1997)
  • Frankie Goes to Town (1999)
  • Shamrocks & Holly: An Irish Christmas Celebration (1999)
  • Fierce Traditional (2001)
With Alec Finn
  • Frankie Gavin & Alec Finn (1977)
  • Masters of Irish Music (2000)
With Andy Irvine
  • Rainy Sundays... Windy Dreams (1980)
With Elvis Costello
  • Spike (1989)
With Stéphane Grappelli
  • Stéphane Grappelli in Concert with guest Frankie Gavin (1993) DVD
With The Rolling Stones
  • Voodoo Lounge (1994)
With Arty McGlynn & Aidan Coffey
  • Ireland (1997)
With Sharon Shannon
  • Tunes (2007)
With Hibernian Rhapsody
  • The Full Score (2008)
With Rick Epping & Jim Foley
  • Jiggin' the Blues (2008)
With Paul Brock
  • Omos Do Joe Cooley: A Tribute to Joe Cooley (2009)
With De Dannan
  • De Danann (1975)
  • The 3rd Irish Folk Festival In Concert (1976)
  • Selected Jigs Reels and Songs (1977)
  • The Mist Covered Mountain (1980)
  • Star-Spangled Molly (1981) (see The De Dannan Collection)
  • Best of De Dannan (1981)
  • Song For Ireland (1983)
  • The Irish RM (1984)
  • Anthem (1985)
  • Ballroom (1987)
  • A Jacket of Batteries (1988)
  • Half Set in Harlem (1991)
  • Hibernian Rhapsody (1995)
  • De Dannan Collection (1997)
  • How the West Was Won (1999)
  • Welcome to the Hotel Connemara (2000)
  • Jigs, Reels & Rock n' Roll (2012)

References

  1. ↑ ramblinghouse.org: Frankie Gavin, retrieved 27 February 2011
  2. ↑ Galway Advertiser Archives 1973, retrieved 27 February 2011
  3. ↑ dublinks’com: Frankie Gavin, retrieved 27 February 2011
  4. ↑ ramblinghouse.org: Frankie Gavin, retrieved 27 February 2011
  5. ↑ culturenorthernireland.org: Frankie Gavin and The New De Dannan, retrieved 27 February 2011
  6. ↑ irishcentral.com review: Frankie Gavin & De Dannan, retrieved 27 February 2011
  7. ↑ The Irish Times: Musician plays his way into records books, retrieved 27 February 2011

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