Listen to Frankie Gavin's Duet with Malachy Bourke

Cover image by Jay Murphy from ‘The Master’s Return: A Tribute to Paddy Killoran’.

Listen to Frankie Gavin's Duet with Malachy Bourke

Duo to open the Santa Rita Concerts in Dublin tomorrow.

Fiddle-players Frankie Gavin and Malachy Bourke with Brian Bourke on bodhrán open the second series of Santa Rita Concerts tomorrow at the Little Museum of Dublin. The concert is sold out, but a number of additional tickets may become available on the day. Details here.

The trio will be launching their new album on the Ergodos label, The Master’s Return: A Tribute to Paddy Killoran, inspired by the early twentieth-century Sligo fiddler who made several recordings in the US.

Malachy Bourke plays one of Killoran’s fiddles on the album, and will be playing it at the concert. He explains how it came into his possession:

My own bond with Killoran was sealed when my father Brian met a neighbour of my uncle Fergus in Sandymount, Dublin. A chance conversation revealed that he had two fiddles belonging to a cousin of his father who lived and died in New York. The neighbour’s name was Killoran; Brian put two and two together and offered him a trade of a painting for a fiddle. He was willing to part with one fiddle but not the other (the one he kept turned out to be one of [Michael] Coleman’s). The fiddle he traded was the one belonging to Paddy Killoran. The fingerboard was worn at the first position with indentations from where he must have played the hell out of it for years. This is the fiddle I play on this recording. 

Listen to a pair of hornpipes, ‘Sault’s Own’ and ‘O’Donnell’s’ from the trio below. The album will be available to purchase from 16 September at www.ergodos.ie.

Published on 15 September 2015

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