25th October 2014 at Crown Moran Hotel (Bentley Suite), London NW2.

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Country: Ireland. Style: Traditional Irish Folk & Popular Songs.

Lineup: Frankie Gavin (fiddle/flute), Barry Brady (button accordion), Colm O'Caoimh (g), Paul O'Driscoll (b), Michelle Lally (v).

Frankie Gavin from Corrandulla, Co, Galway was one of the founders of De Danann (later De Dannan) in 1985. I only saw the band once in 1995, by which time the singer was Tommy Fleming rather than any of his more famous predecessors. After numerous personnel changes the band spit up in 2003. When I saw Galvin in 2007 he was callining his band Hibernian Rhapsody. A few years later he started calling it De Dannan. As the MC at this concert indicated with his oblique reference to a “Real” or “Continuity” De Dannan, there are now 2 bands with the name. The other (which uses the original De Danann spelling) is led by another founder member Alec Finn (and unlike the Frankie Gavin version started out including another three one time members of the original group). Gavin’s current group includes Brady (from Co. Roscommon), O’Caoihm (Co. Kilkenny), O’Driscill (Birmingham, but now Co. Galway) and Lally (Co. Galway). The tunes were all traditional (apart from mixing in the odd Beatles track), but Lally’s songs were certainly not - versions of recordings by Edith Piath, Gracie Fields, Jo Stafford, Paul McCartney and Stephen Foster. The nearest thing to traditional was the American vaudeville song “My Irish Molly”. In other words, very distant.
More information: www.facebook.com/FrankieGavinAndDeDannan.

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25th October 2014 at Crown Moran Hotel (Bentley Suite), London NW2.

Return to Camden Town Festival, www.returntocamden.org/.

Country: Ireland. Style: Traditional Irish Folk & Popular Songs.

Lineup: Frankie Gavin (fiddle/flute), Barry Brady (button accordion), Colm O'Caoimh (g), Paul O'Driscoll (b), Michelle Lally (v).

Frankie Gavin from Corrandulla, Co, Galway was one of the founders of De Danann (later De Dannan) in 1985. I only saw the band once in 1995, by which time the singer was Tommy Fleming rather than any of his more famous predecessors. After numerous personnel changes the band spit up in 2003. When I saw Galvin in 2007 he was callining his band Hibernian Rhapsody. A few years later he started calling it De Dannan. As the MC at this concert indicated with his oblique reference to a “Real” or “Continuity” De Dannan, there are now 2 bands with the name. The other (which uses the original De Danann spelling) is led by another founder member Alec Finn (and unlike the Frankie Gavin version started out including another three one time members of the original group). Gavin’s current group includes Brady (from Co. Roscommon), O’Caoihm (Co. Kilkenny), O’Driscill (Birmingham, but now Co. Galway) and Lally (Co. Galway). The tunes were all traditional (apart from mixing in the odd Beatles track), but Lally’s songs were certainly not - versions of recordings by Edith Piath, Gracie Fields, Jo Stafford, Paul McCartney and Stephen Foster. The nearest thing to traditional was the American vaudeville song “My Irish Molly”. In other words, very distant.
More information: www.facebook.com/FrankieGavinAndDeDannan.

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25th October 2014 at Crown Moran Hotel (Bentley Suite), London NW2.

Return to Camden Town Festival, www.returntocamden.org/.

Country: Ireland. Style: Traditional Irish Folk & Popular Songs.

Lineup: Frankie Gavin (fiddle/flute), Barry Brady (button accordion), Colm O'Caoimh (g), Paul O'Driscoll (b), Michelle Lally (v).

Frankie Gavin from Corrandulla, Co, Galway was one of the founders of De Danann (later De Dannan) in 1985. I only saw the band once in 1995, by which time the singer was Tommy Fleming rather than any of his more famous predecessors. After numerous personnel changes the band spit up in 2003. When I saw Galvin in 2007 he was callining his band Hibernian Rhapsody. A few years later he started calling it De Dannan. As the MC at this concert indicated with his oblique reference to a “Real” or “Continuity” De Dannan, there are now 2 bands with the name. The other (which uses the original De Danann spelling) is led by another founder member Alec Finn (and unlike the Frankie Gavin version started out including another three one time members of the original group). Gavin’s current group includes Brady (from Co. Roscommon), O’Caoihm (Co. Kilkenny), O’Driscill (Birmingham, but now Co. Galway) and Lally (Co. Galway). The tunes were all traditional (apart from mixing in the odd Beatles track), but Lally’s songs were certainly not - versions of recordings by Edith Piath, Gracie Fields, Jo Stafford, Paul McCartney and Stephen Foster. The nearest thing to traditional was the American vaudeville song “My Irish Molly”. In other words, very distant.
More information: www.facebook.com/FrankieGavinAndDeDannan.

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25th October 2014 at Crown Moran Hotel (Bentley Suite), London NW2.

Return to Camden Town Festival, www.returntocamden.org/.

Country: Ireland & Britain (Irish resident). Style: Traditional Irish Folk & Popular Songs.

Lineup: Frankie Gavin (fiddle/flute), Barry Brady (button accordion), Colm O'Caoimh (g), Paul O'Driscoll (b), Michelle Lally (v).

Frankie Gavin from Corrandulla, Co, Galway was one of the founders of De Danann (later De Dannan) in 1985. I only saw the band once in 1995, by which time the singer was Tommy Fleming rather than any of his more famous predecessors. After numerous personnel changes the band spit up in 2003. When I saw Galvin in 2007 he was callining his band Hibernian Rhapsody. A few years later he started calling it De Dannan. As the MC at this concert indicated with his oblique reference to a “Real” or “Continuity” De Dannan, there are now 2 bands with the name. The other (which uses the original De Danann spelling) is led by another founder member Alec Finn (and unlike the Frankie Gavin version started out including another three one time members of the original group). Gavin’s current group includes Brady (from Co. Roscommon), O’Caoihm (Co. Kilkenny), O’Driscill (Birmingham, but now Co. Galway) and Lally (Co. Galway). The tunes were all traditional (apart from mixing in the odd Beatles track), but Lally’s songs were certainly not - versions of recordings by Edith Piath, Gracie Fields, Jo Stafford, Paul McCartney and Stephen Foster. The nearest thing to traditional was the American vaudeville song “My Irish Molly”. In other words, very distant.
More information: www.facebook.com/FrankieGavinAndDeDannan.

Tags:   Folk Music Ireland Irish Folk Frankie Gavin De Dannan Return to Camden Town Crown Hotel

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25th October 2014 at Crown Moran Hotel (Bentley Suite), London NW2.

Return to Camden Town Festival, www.returntocamden.org/.

Country: Ireland. Style: Traditional Irish Folk & Popular Songs.

Lineup: Frankie Gavin (fiddle/flute), Barry Brady (button accordion), Colm O'Caoimh (g), Paul O'Driscoll (b), Michelle Lally (v).

Frankie Gavin from Corrandulla, Co, Galway was one of the founders of De Danann (later De Dannan) in 1985. I only saw the band once in 1995, by which time the singer was Tommy Fleming rather than any of his more famous predecessors. After numerous personnel changes the band spit up in 2003. When I saw Galvin in 2007 he was callining his band Hibernian Rhapsody. A few years later he started calling it De Dannan. As the MC at this concert indicated with his oblique reference to a “Real” or “Continuity” De Dannan, there are now 2 bands with the name. The other (which uses the original De Danann spelling) is led by another founder member Alec Finn (and unlike the Frankie Gavin version started out including another three one time members of the original group). Gavin’s current group includes Brady (from Co. Roscommon), O’Caoihm (Co. Kilkenny), O’Driscill (Birmingham, but now Co. Galway) and Lally (Co. Galway). The tunes were all traditional (apart from mixing in the odd Beatles track), but Lally’s songs were certainly not - versions of recordings by Edith Piath, Gracie Fields, Jo Stafford, Paul McCartney and Stephen Foster. The nearest thing to traditional was the American vaudeville song “My Irish Molly”.
In other words, very distant.In this photo: Brady plays a Paolo Soprani Accordion.
More information: www.facebook.com/FrankieGavinAndDeDannan.

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