Frankie Gavin

Frankie Gavin
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About the artist

Frankie Gavin (born 1956) is an Irish fiddle and flute player, from Corrandulla, County Galway. He is a founding member of the Irish traditional group De Dannan. He is known for playing in the fast and virtuosic Galway regional style. Gavin has recorded and played with many of the best traditional musicians of his generation, and he has recorded many side-projects, including work with Elvis Costello, The Rolling Stones, Keith Richards, Yehudi Menuhin, Stéphane Grappelli and Earl Scruggs.

Top songs

  1. The Mountain Road / Old Concertina Reel (2 Reels) [Live]
  2. Cup of Tea (Reel)
  3. The Holly Reel
  4. Drowsy Maggie/Star of Munster (Reels)
  5. The Wheels of the World
  6. Peacock's Feather (hornpipe)
  7. Pigeon on the Gate (Reel)
  8. The Moving Pint - Dog Little - Dog Big
  9. The Humours Of Galway
  10. Frankie Gavin'sIrish Orchestra
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  1. Tommie Coens Christmas Eve
  2. The Congress (reel)
  3. The Bunch Of Green Rushes
  4. The Wren's Nest (Reel) [Live]
  5. Hensen's Waltz
  6. The Women Of Ireland & John In The Fog
  7. Kitty Town & McFadden's Handsome Daughter
  8. Mona Lisa
  9. The Kerry Dances
  10. The Bunch of Green Rushes, Sean Frank (Reels)
  11. Ryan's (reel)
  12. Martin Wynne's, Austin Tierney's (Reels)
  13. Concert (Reel)
  14. McLaghlin's Flings
  15. Rose In The Haether, The Rambler & The Drimneen
  16. Way Too Jazzy
  17. The Dancers Delight / Stony Steps / Bloom of Youth (3 Reels) [Live]
  18. Ragtime Rudolph
  19. The Maid of Tullyknockbrine / Dinkeys Reel (2 Reels) [Live]
  20. Charles O'Connor (planxty)
  21. Cooley's / The Wise Maid
  22. Jackson's Reels
  23. The Night Cap/The Frost Is All Over
  24. Lafferty's / My Love Is in America
  25. The Night Cap / The Frost Is All Over
  26. Jackson's (reel)
  27. Murphy's (Hornpipe)
  28. The Night Cap (The Frost Is All Over)
  29. The Showman's Fancy / Thomond Bridge (2 Hornpipes) [Live]
  30. Jingle Bell Jazz
  31. Tommy Coen's Christmas Eve
  32. Cooley's/The Wise Maid
  33. Rose in the Heather / The Rambler / The Drimneen Jig (3 Jigs) [Live]
  34. Over the Moor to Maggie / Dowd's Number Nine
  35. Turkey Reel
  36. Ding Dong Merrily on High
  37. Gan Ainm / The Temple House / Fox Hunt (3 Reels) [The Head of Cabbage No. 1] [Live]
  38. Ding Dong Merrily
  39. The Night Cap, The Frost Is All Over
  40. Annonce au public - Live
  41. Caileach an Airgead / Connaughtman's Rambles / Out in the Ocean (3 Jigs) [Live]
  42. First Noel
  43. O'Carolan's Draught
  44. Silent Night
  45. Hark The Herald Angels Sing
  46. Holly & Ivy
  47. Arty Plays Jigs (3 Jigs) [Live]
  48. The Dancer's Delight
  49. Polkas
  50. Adeste Fideles
  51. Mike Flanagan's / The Milliner's Daughter
  52. The Fermoy Lassies / Hand Me Down the Tackle
  53. O' Carolan's Draught - Live
  54. Away In A Manger
  55. Polkas - Live
  56. Clancy's / The Scotsman Over the Border
  57. Angels We Have Heard On High
  58. The harvest home / The Derry (hornpipes)
  59. The Road to Corrandulla: The Lochaber Badger / The Road to Corrandulla
  60. The Cuckoo Without Her Nest (Slow Air) [Live]
  61. My Darling's Asleep / The Queen of the Fair
  62. The enchanted lady / The Holy Land (reels)
  63. The Wren's Nest
  64. Dublin Porter / Peregrine Music (2 Reels) [Peregrine Music's Suite] [Live]
  65. Kerry Reels (3 Reels) [Did You See My Man Looking for Me? / Short Grass / The Hag at the Church] [Live]
  66. Alice's Reel
  67. Taking to Flight
  68. The Salley Gardens / The Ships Are Sailing / The Wild Irishman / The Coalminer / The Skylark
  69. The Sailor On the Rock / Temple House / The Lilies in the Field
  70. Kerry Reels
  71. Children's Chimes
  72. Taking to Flight (Derry Hornpipe / Cill Abhaill) [Live]
  73. Arty Plays Jigs
  74. St. Patrick's Day
  75. The Mullingar Races / The Humours of Westport
  76. The Stone Outside Dan Murphy's Door / Mother's Blessing Walses - Live
  77. The Cockoo Without Her Nest
  78. The Sally Gardens / The Ships Are Sailing / The Wild Irishman / The Coalminer / The Skylark
  79. The Mystery Reel
  80. The Stack Of Wheat/Miss Galvin's
  81. The Oak Tree
  82. The Derry / The Fisher
  83. Annonce au public
  84. She Lived Beside the Anner
  85. The Moving Pint, Dog Little - Dog Big
  86. John McKenna's Reels
  87. Medley: Martin Wynne's, Austin Tierney's (Reels)
  88. Memories of Ballymote / Gurteen Cross (polkas)
  89. The blackthorn stick / Humours of Miltown (jigs)
  90. Dublin Porter, Peregrine Music

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