Frankie Gavin (b. 1956) is an Irish fiddle player, from Corrandulla, County Galway. He is a founder member of 1970s Irish traditional group De Dannan. By the age of 15 he had won Irish national championship awards for both fiddle and tin whistle. He is known for playing in a very fast and virtuosic Galway style. Has recorded and played with many of the best traditional musicians of his generation. His boundless energy has driven him to record many side-projects, including work with Elvis Costello, The Rolling Stones, Keith Richards, Yehudi Menuhin, Stephane Grapelli and Earl Scruggs. He is working on an orchestral work "The Choctaw Symphony" using Irish and Choctaw themes. Together with accordionist Paul Broch, Frankie recorded "Omos Do Joe Cooley" a tribute to the renowned Irish-American accordion player. 1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The violin is a stringed musical instrument that has four strings tuned a fifth apart. ... County Galway (Contae na Gaillimhe in Irish) is located on the west coast of Ireland. ... This article provides extensive lists of events and significant personalities of the 1970s. ... De Dannan is an Irish folk music group. ... Declan Patrick Aloysius MacManus (born August 25, 1954), better known by his stage name, Elvis Costello, is a popular British musician, singer, and songwriter. ... The Rolling Stones in 1964 The Rolling Stones are a British rock and roll band who rose to prominence during the mid-1960s. ... Album photograph by Sante D’orazio Keith Richards (born December 18, 1943 in Dartford, Kent), is a British guitarist and songwriter, best known for his work with The Rolling Stones, the band he founded with vocalist Mick Jagger and Brian Jones in 1962. ... Fritz Kreisler (sitting) with Yehudi Menuhin Yehudi Menuhin, Lord Menuhin of Stoke dAbernon , OM, KBE (April 22, 1916. ... Stephane Grappelli (January 26, 1908 - December 1, 1997) was a pioneer jazz violinist who founded the quintet of the Quintette du Hot Club de France with Django Reinhardt. ... Earl Scruggs Earl Scruggs (born Earl Eugene Scruggs January 6, 1924 in Flint Hill, North Carolina) created a banjo style (now called Scruggs style) that is one of the defining characteristics of bluegrass. ...

Discography

Solo

• Frankie Gavin and Alec Finn (1977)
• Croch Suas E [Up and Away] (1983)
• Frankie Goes To Town (1989)
• Irlande (1994)
• Fierce Traditional (2001)

With De Dannan

• De Dannan (1975)
• Selected Jigs Reels and Songs (1977)
• The Mist Covered Maintain (1980)
• Star-Spangled Molly (1981)
• 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)
• How The West Was Won (1999)
• Welcome To The Hotel Connemara (2000)

With Paul Brock

• Omos do Joe Cooley (A Tribute To Joe Cooley) (1986)