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 ...
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 ...
Fans of De Dannan may notice a few key members missing from the new line-up. But founder Frankie Gavin insists the essence of the group is the same, writes SIOBHAN LONG ‘WHAT’S IN A name? That which ...
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 (originally Dé Danann) is an Irish folk music group. It was formed by Frankie Gavin (fiddle), Alec Finn (guitar, bouzouki), Johnny "Ringo" McDonagh (bodhrán) and Charlie Piggott (banjo) as a ...
TRIBUTES have been paid to musician Alec Finn who has passed away at the age of 74. A co-founder of Galway-based folk group De Dannan along with Frankie Gavin, Ringo McDonagh and Charlie Piggot, the ...
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 ...
The death has been announced of musician Alec Finn, co-founder of Galway-based folk group De Dannan. Finn, along with Frankie Gavin, Ringo McDonagh and Charlie Piggot founded De Dannan in 1974. Driven ...
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 ...
A co-founder of Galway-based folk group De Dannan has passed away. Alec Finn, who was 74, Finn, founded De Dannan in 1974 with Frankie Gavin, Ringo McDonagh and Charlie Piggot. Although born in ...