page_title: Frankie Gavin (musician)
section_title: Music career
hierarchical_section_title: Frankie Gavin (musician) / Music career
caption_attribution_description: English: Irish fiddle player Frankie Gavin with De Dannan, Irish folk band at the Trowbridge Folk Festival, 1985 (Tony Rees photograph).
context_page_description: Frankie Gavin is a fiddle player of traditional Irish music.
context_section_description: In the early 1970s Gavin played musical sessions at Galway's Cellar Bar, with Alec Finn (bouzouki, guitar), Mickey Finn (fiddle), Charlie Piggott (banjo), and Johnnie (Ringo) McDonagh (bodhrán). In 1974, from these and further sessions, he founded the group De Dannan with Alec Finn.
  When De Dannan split-up in 2003, Gavin founded a new group, Frankie Gavin and The New De Dannan, which led to an acrimonious exchange between Gavin and Finn. According to Finn, he had registered the 'De Dannan' name.
  Gavin has played and recorded with Andy Irvine, The Rolling Stones, Elvis Costello, Stéphane Grappelli, and Frankie Goes to Hollywood, and in 2010 became reputedly the fastest fiddle-player in the world, with an entry in the Guinness Book of Records.
caption: Gavin on stage with De Dannan at the 1985 Trowbridge Folk Festival.
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