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Gavin is well known aan his time with De Dannan and has worked
with some of the biggest names in the music industry.
However, their concert at the Old Ground Hotel on Sunday, November 8, as part of the Ennis Trad Festival, brings the pair together for a rare joint appearance.
Festival Chairman, John Rynne ex- plained that the concert promises to be one of the highlights of the week- Koyatemy oyueyeaucbeebeates
He said, “Tony McMahon who is from here in town, an accordion player. Frankie 1s a fiddle player, of De Dannan fame, RTE producer, he’s done all that sort of thing. The two of them, they are like lions of the trad1- tion, if you like. They are two very long established big names. You have the Noel Hills, the Matt Molloys, the Chieftains, Frankie Gavin and Tony McMahon, Christy Moore, Donal
Lunny, they’re the big names.”
Rynne added, ““They’re doing a duet together and I haven’t found anybody else, apart from myself, who’s actual- ly heard them doing a duet together, playing together. They’ve both been in all sorts of arrangements and done all sorts of concerts and shows and television and every sort of thing. Individually they’re extremely well known and regarded. But as a combi- nation they’ve been rarely heard. So it should be really special.”
Ennis native Tony McMahon’s con- tribution to Irish folk music, both as a broadcaster and as one of Ireland’s most remarkable musicians, has been singular and unmatched. His music has been variously described as both transporting and transforming.
Sharing the stage on this night will be Galway fiddler Frankie Gavin.
Frankie who hails from Corrandul- la, has recorded 16 albums with De Dannan as well as a number of solo albums, and three collaborations: one a tribute to Joe Cooley entitled