Event

Frankie Gavin in Concert

On February 23rd, Sevensense Productions is proud to present Frankie Gavin in Concert at the intimate Port Townsend Friends Meetinghouse, located at 1841 Sheridan St., Port Townsend, WA.

At the age of 17, Frankie Gavin won two all-Ireland competitions-for fiddle and flute. He has played for four American presidents: As a seven-year old, he played for John F. Kennedy on his 1962 visit to Ireland. He also played for Presidents Clinton and Bush, and more recently for Barack and Michelle Obama , when the president visited his ancestral home in the village of Moneygall in County Offaly. His name is also synonymous with DeDannan, the globally renowned band he founded in the mid-1970s. After a short break in the 2000s, Frankie restarted the band with a new young line up. The current incarnation maintains the stellar quality of those iconic early DeDannans.

The plain fact is that there is no more exciting fiddle player or moving flute player in the world of Irish music today. The Guinness Book of Records, that bible of bizarre human conditions and activities, lists Frankie as the worlds fastest fiddle player. On September 2010, he played a traditional Irish tune, the Foxhunters reel, at a breath-taking 150 beats per minute!

Here are some you-tube videos of Frankie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EcSiWXbuBo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teeFFyrhfaI

Get your tickets early. This one is going to sell out.

Where: Port Townsend Friends Meetinghouse, 1841 Sheridan St, Port Townsend WA
When: Thursday, February 23, 7 pm (doors open at 6:30)
Tickets available in advance through brownpapertickets.com