Folk Bands and Artists
Frankie Gavin
https://frankiegavin-dedannan.irish
Throughout his musical career Frankie Gavin has been fascinated and inspired by the music of those legendary Irish musicians who emigrated to America in the early part of the twentieth century, giants such as James Morrison, Paddy Killoran and The Flanagan Brothers who left Waterford for New York in 1911. Seventy years later, the 1981 De Dannan album Star-Spangled Molly, which included the band’s hit version of the original Flanagan Brothers’ song My Irish Molly-O, reawakened massive Irish interest in the music of this era.
Now Frankie Gavin has put together a new Irish supergroup to play the Flanagan Brothers’ music, a group whose first live performance, on Gala Night at Tradfest, Dublin in January 2018 was a huge success. Frankie Gavin and his Roaring Twenties Irish Orchestra comprises a four-piece front line of Frankie Gavin on fiddle, Emma Corbett on melodeon, Martin Murray on banjo, and Carl Hession on piano. This core is augmented by a brass section, a clarinet and double-bass.
Frankie Gavin, from Galway, is known best as the co-founder with Alec Finn of the iconic band De Dannan which has existed in various forms since the mid-1970s. In addition to his band work, he has pursued a successful solo career as well as performing with the cream of traditional Irish musicians of his generation and stars from other musical genres: Stéphane Grappelli, Yehudi Menuhuin, James Galway, Elvis Costello and The Rolling Stones. He is generally regarded as the finest traditional Irish fiddle player of his generation.
