THE co-founder of the folk group De Dannan Alec Finn has died aged 74. Talented musician Finn founded De Dannan back in 1974 alongside Frankie Gavin, Ringo McDonagh and Charlie Piggo. Alec sadly died ...
De Dannan, along with The Bothy Band, Planxty and The Chieftains, is one of the seminal super-group Irish traditional bands that started up in the heady days of the 1970s and have powered along in ...
It’s 45 years since De Dannan headlined the inaugural Cork Folk Festival, but the last appearance there by Frankie Gavin and his erstwhile bandmates caused just as much of a stir as their first. One ...
Trad's evolutionary qualities are alive and in evidence in this latest incarnation of Frankie Gavin's De Dannan. With a few relative newcomers aboard (Paul O'Driscoll on double bass, Colm Ó Caoimh on ...
FRANKIE GAVIN and the new De Dannan are to launch a new series of monthly traditional Irish music nights in the Mermaid Arts Centre, starting on Wednesday September 9. For many years traditional super ...
After a long and bitter dispute, Frankie Gavin is glad to be back on good terms with his De Dannan bandmates, writes Ellie O’Byrne THE great Galway accordion player Joe Cooley once famously said that ...
Taking their name from the legendary Irish tribe the Tuatha Dé Danann, the band De Dannan, (the subtle name change from Dé Danann to De Dannan happened on this 1985 album), grew from a weekly Sunday ...
AS part of their 'up close and personal' tour across Ireland Frankie Gavin and De Dannan are at the Briery Gap in Macroom on Saturday, February 5. The band is currently performing in a variety of ...
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WHAT’S IN a name? Quite a lot for some musicians it seems, after a spat between two of the founding members of trad supergroup De Dannan erupted yesterday into a public row as some of Ireland’s ...
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