Search Results for 'Frankie Gavin'

A book on one of Galway’s traditional flute players will be launched this week, followed by performances in Ballinasloe, Loughrea and in Galway city by fiddler and flautist Frankie Gavin.

Prior to 1961, public performance of Irish traditional music in Galway took place primarily in the form of céilís in large dancehalls — namely in the Hangar, the Commercial and the Astaire. These were enormously popular — remember the hundreds of bicycles parked outside the Hangar on a Sunday night — but they began to go out of fashion in the sixties and were regarded as old fashioned and backward.

The world of Irish traditional music is this week coming to terms with the loss of one of Alec Finn, one of its most influential masters over the last four decades.

FRANKIE GAVIN and De Dannan will play Monroe's Live on Friday August 7 at 9pm in a fundraising concert for Gorta-Self Help Africa in partnership with Alan Kerins Projects.

FRANKIE GAVIN'S first taste of performing in front of an audience was in Corrandulla Town Hall, playing tin whistle, and standing beside him was the man who saw the potential in the youngster - the fiddler and flautist Eddie Moloney.

This weekend, An Táin Bar in Ballinasloe is welcoming Frankie Gavin and De Dannan to their live venue on Friday November 21.

BLUEGRASS, JAZZ, vocal harmonies, and world music rhythms, fed through the prism of Irish trad - this is the sonic essence of Irish band Moxie.

TRAD FIDDLE great Frankie Gavin will be among the stellar line-up of musicians performing at the NUI Galway’s Arts in Action Finale Concert.

Rambling Irishman Frankie Gavin and De Dannan return to the Mullingar Arts Centre this Saturday November 30 with Jigs and Jazz II.

FRANKIE GAVIN & De Dannan will play one of the major concerts at this year’s Galway Arts Festival when they take to the stage of the Radisson Live Lounge tonight at 8pm.