Cork Opera House 8pm Frankie Gavin & De Dannan with special guests Molly O' Mahony and Dave Murphy €29
A highlight of this year’s festival will be a very special 45th Anniversary Concert at Cork Opera House, featuring virtuoso fiddler Frankie Gavin presenting the latest incarnation of De Dannan. Opening the show will be one of Ireland’s most gifted songwriters, Cork’s Jack O’Rourke, joins De Dannan for a night of music not to be missed.
Frankie Gavin & De Dannan
Frankie Gavin, from Galway, Ireland, is one of the most visionary and inspiring virtuoso Irish fiddlers in the world; the founder, heart and core of the legendary band De Dannan. The globally celebrated band he founded with Alec Finn in the mid-1970s has always featured a star-studded line-up, and 2023 saw the birth of the latest incarnation of the band. De Dannan now comprises Frankie Gavin on fiddle and flute, Catherine Mc Hugh on piano, Ian Kinsella on guitar, Diarmuid Ó Meachair on melodeon and Kaitlin Cullen-Verhauz on vocals and cello.
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