Join us for an unforgetible evening with Frankie Gavin and Catherine McHugh. Frankie 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 JohnF. 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 and still performs.