The Baltimore Irish Music school is hosting a concert with renowned Irish fiddler Frankie Gavin accompanied by pianist Matt Mulqueen at St. Luke’s Church on the Avenue in Hampden. Doors are at 7PM, music starts at 7:30.
Tickets are $10 for children under 18 and $25 general admission. Reserve tickets below or pay at the door.
Frankie Gavin has played fiddle and flute since his teenage years. At the age of seventeen, he won All-Ireland competitions for fiddle and flute. Originally influenced by the great Irish and American-Irish fiddle players, James Morrison, and Michael Coleman, he later found himself playing with the stars including among others The Rolling Stones, Earl Scruggs, Lez Paul, Stéphane Grappelli, James Galway and Yehudi Menuhin as well as with many of the great contemporary players and singers of traditional Irish music. All have left their mark on his eclectic approach to music. In 2010, he officially became the world’s fastest fiddle player when he played The Foxhunter’s Reel, at a breath-taking 150 beats per minute!
Gavin has played for four American presidents, starting, at the age of six when he played for John F. Kennedy on his 1962 visit to Ireland, then later for Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama. He has also played for France’s President Mitterrand, Britain’s Prince Charles (now King Charles III), Prince Albert of Monaco and, in front of the Pope on his last visit to Ireland.
The name Frankie Gavin is also synonymous with De Dannan, the globally renowned traditional Irish band he founded in the mid-1970s. Despite a few breaks and changes of personnel over the years, the band continues to play still performs and excites audiences in Ireland and around the world. Another of Gavin’s recent projects is The Princess Grace Symphonic Suite, composed by Frankie and arranged by Carl Hession, was performed in Monaco with the Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra in September 2022 in front Princess Grace’s son, Prince Albert. It is expected that the suite will performed in Ireland, the USA and elsewhere in the future.
There is more information about Frankie Gavin together with videos and audio tracks on this website https://frankiegavin-dedannan.irish