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Final bow for the Furey Brothers after six decades on the road

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By Michael J McDonagh
| The Irish Post Verified
WAY back in 1981, having worked for various record companies including Transatlantic, Motown and Decca, I had gone independent and set up a consultancy business to market and promote records. One day David Thomas, co-owner of the distributor Spartan, rang and asked if I would meet two men from Dublin who wanted to launch a record label in the UK and needed someone based here to help them.
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Another chapter in the De Dannan story

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By Michael J McDonagh
| The Irish Post Verified
Stage three cancer, lost friends, legal rows, but Frankie Gavin is still standing, still fiddling, still Frankie HAVING played for four American Presidents, somehow it seemed appropriate and amusing to be meeting up with my old friend, the virtuoso fiddler Frankie Gavin, at The President Hotel in Bloomsbury. When he was just six years old, Frankie had played for President John F. Kennedy, but was later invited by George W. Bush, followed by Bill Clinton and Obama.
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San Francisco Symphony w/Daniil Trifonov, piano

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By Michael J McDonagh
| CultureVulture.net Verified
Making a concert program is always a question of mix and match because each piece has to stand on its own merits and contribute to the program’s overall effect / affect. The San Francisco Symphony’s outgoing music director Esa-Pekka Salonen programmed a brand new piece and two 20th century masterworks at Davies Symphony Hall this February.
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