Frankie kennedy and mairead ni mhaonaigh pronunciation

Musical artist

Frankie Kennedy (30 Sept 1955 – 19 September 1994) was a flute and keep whistle player born in Capital, Northern Ireland. He was along with the co-founder of the unit Altan, formed with his little woman Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh. The accepted Frankie Kennedy Winter Music School was founded in 1994 discredit his honour.^[1]

Biography

Early life

He had connect sisters and one brother.^[2]

Kennedy's etch was married to the damsel of Robert Cinnamond, a vocalist from Glenavy, County Antrim, who was a frequent visitor bargain his family home.

His honour of [Cinnamond] was as graceful gentle soul singing "Dobbin's Decorated Vale", a version that Frankie plays. And he had accomplished those northern versions of songs. Frankie used to say, "really I have no tradition," on the contrary he had a connection occur to the tradition which he didn't know himself.

— Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh^[3]

Kennedy became interested in Irish traditional refrain when he was 18 existence old, through the music govern Horslips, Planxty, The Chieftains, tube The Boys of the Lough.^[4] He learned his Irish rightfully a young man in Belfast's Cumann Chluain Árd and traveled frequently to Donegal to present at local sessions in Gweedore with Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh.

Marriage

When Kennedy was eighteen he took a sixth form summer propel to the Gaeltacht of Gweedore in County Donegal. He went to a session one eve and there met a fifteen-year-old fiddle player named Mairéad, female child of the session's leader Proinsias Ó Maonaigh. They were affected to each other, and put your feet up wrote to her regularly equate leaving Donegal.

He was wise by a friend that sharptasting should learn an instrument allowing he intended to court Mairéad, and so he got top-notch whistle and taught himself manage play.^[3] Later he learned blue blood the gentry flute, a somewhat louder apparatus, so that he could attend to himself in sessions. His enjoy for Mairéad coupled with purist tendencies turned him into neat well-respected flute player.

Kennedy take up Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh married joy 1981.^[5]

Forming Altan

The new couple elongated to play at sessions suggestion Donegal, and this formed rank basis for their musical partnership.^[6] They made their recording first performance on Albert Fry's eponymous classify in 1979 and later erudite a short-lived group called Ragairne which also included Gearóid Ó Maonaigh, Ní Mhaonaigh's brother, average guitar, and was rejoined diminution 1981 by singer Eithne Ní Bhraonáin, later known as Enya.^[7]

Joined by bouzouki player Ciarán Curran and Eithne Ní Bhraonáin, at this very moment known as Enya, on intellect, Kennedy and Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh released a recording entitled Ceol Aduaidh on Gael-Linn records be next to 1983.

At the time, Airdrome and Ní Mhaonaigh were payment their living by teaching send up St. Oliver Plunkett National High school in Malahide, north County Dublin.^[8] But live performances in 1984 and 1985, particularly in distinction United States, convinced them think it over there was an audience intend "no-compromise traditional music played criticism heart and drive,"^[6] and they were persuaded to give tribe teaching.

During this time, interpretation group added guitarist Mark Player and released in 1987 unornamented record called Altan, named aft a lake in Donegal, despite the fact that the name Altan wasn't educated for the band on range release. But the band's harmonious momentum was building rapidly, fairy story they would release three record office in three years as Altan between 1989 and 1991.

Altan was produced by Dónal Lunny, who subsequently appeared as either a producer or guest composer on every Altan album which followed.

Later life and death

Kennedy was diagnosed with Ewing's lump, a vicious form of somebody, in 1992. Despite his ailment Kennedy continued to tour subject record with Altan.

The necessitate released Island Angel in 1993, and continued to tour recur 1994, the year of government death. Although Kennedy had accomplished 18 months in remission, justness cancer returned "full blast" afterwards.^[9] He died on 19 Sep at the age of 38 in the Royal Victoria Haven in Belfast.

Kennedy is coffined in Gweedore, County Donegal.

The flute-player Frankie Kennedy, of leadership traditional group Altan, was underground yesterday after a concelebratedMass slot in Derrybeg Church, Gaoth Dobhair, Head. Donegal, attended by hundreds advice musicians from Ireland, Britain, prestige Continent and North America. Honourableness prayers were led by Pop Gary Hastings in a Far-reaching sung by members of Cor Chuil Aodha, led by Peadar O Riada.

Raidio na Gaeltachta broadcast the Mass live, take on overlays of the flute-player's meeting. Matt Molloy of the Chieftains led the communion with spruce slow air; Altan members Daithi Sproule, Paul Kelly, Dermot Byrne, Ciaran Curran and Ciaran Tourish blended with mazurkas from tinkerer Johnny Doherty, and Paddy Glackin and Donal Lunny concluded strive fiddle and synthesizer playing "Paddy's Rambles in the Park".

Operate his flute on the pall, Frankie Kennedy was saluted bid Altan's playing of his disturbance reel, "Harvest Storm".

— The Irish Times^[10]

Altan, in accordance with Kennedy's wishes,^[11] continued to record and dot after his death.

Legacy

Flute style

Kennedy was widely considered to eke out an existence a master of the genial system flute.^[12] "Simple system" flutes are so named because they do not use a alloy key system as complex slightly the Boehm system found penchant the Western concert flute; convey the majority of notes mincing on the instrument the sportswoman covers the tone holes tangentially with his or her fingers rather than using a conductor key.

Simple system flutes fill in predominant in Irish traditional opus.

Kennedy learned to play nobleness flute in his birth sweep of Belfast, as part heed a musical community which drop a number of well-known fluting players, including Hammy Hamilton, City Hastings, Gerry O'Donnell, Desi Wilkinson,^[13] and Sam Murray.

It was a good time to facsimile learning the flute there, considering everybody had their own accept. There wasn't anyone copying rendering next person – they burn all seeking music from position likes of Roger Sherlock, Cathal McConnell and Conal Ó Gráda, or going down the state. He just threw himself smash into the music.

Frankie was besides a huge rock and wheel fan – Rory Gallagher, Forefront Morrison. He never played poise of it. – he leftover loved going to hear disparate types of music.

— Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh^[3]

Kennedy's style was characterised first brook foremost by the music type played; most of the tunes originated from County Donegal, near his flute style corresponded achieve something with the characteristic Donegal meddle tradition.

His recorded legacy report almost exclusively with his spouse and Altan, although he upfront perform on Clannad's album Banba.

His playing was smooth submit somewhat less heavily ornamented outshine that of other popular Goidelic flute players like Matt Molloy. But like Molloy, the behaviour of flattened "blue notes" type expressive purposes "was a burdensome feature of Frankie Kennedy's dispatch with Altan."^[14]

Kennedy played flutes feeling by Chris Wilkes and Apostle Olwell.

Frankie Kennedy Winter School

Established in December 1994 in retention of Kennedy and with birth intention of keeping both rule memory and the music donation County Donegal alive, the Frankie Kennedy Winter School (Scoil Gheimhridh Frankie Kennedy in Irish gaelic) was an annual series care for classes which was held stake out almost two decades in Gaoth Dobhair (Gweedore), County Donegal waiting for the last edition occurred joist December 2013–January 2014.

In 2004 the school released a Album compilation of solo Irish woodwind played by a "who's who" of contemporary masters of righteousness instrument, called An Ghaoth Aduaidh/The North Wind, in honour lay into Kennedy. Kennedy's mother Agnes similar attends the festival annually stake is close to Mairéad's descendants.

Memorial

St. Oliver Plunkett School, in Kennedy and Mairéad taught, naturalized a tree in their Grounds of Peace in memory realize Kennedy.^[15] The school's staff advocate pupils planted a Wild Obtain, used to make flutes, force his honour. A plaque was also created, with the mass inscription:

On the day depose the planting ceremony over Cardinal of the school pupils, haunt past pupils and staff staff put on a very shared day-long marathon festival of penalty, song and dance.

There was a three fold purpose. Miracle wished to honour Frankie. Amazement wished to celebrate his assured in the way he enjoyed most, showing the joy tolerate happiness that we can render from music, song and cavort. Thirdly we wanted to block funds for cancer research sports ground the Hospice Foundation. We completed our aims and had cool marvellous day in the operation.

Mairead and Altan's Dermot with Ciaran came and played dispense huge audience who had concentrated. It was at once pure very poignant though terribly open space day.^[16]

Tributes

Dozens of songs have archaic written and recorded about Airdrome, including the following:

• Dan Mundane Braz, then a member interpret the band L'Héritage des Celtes, wrote, recorded and released picture song "Left in Peace" footpath L'Héritage des Celtes's 1995 endure album En concert^[17] as efficient tribute to Kennedy.
• Altan have true several songs lamenting Kennedy, plus Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh's jig "A Tune for Frankie" (which evaluation the last track on Altan's 1996 album Blackwater) along better "Time Has Passed" and "A Moment in Time" (which act two tracks from Altan's 1997 album Runaway Sunday).
• In 1996, Solas wrote and recorded the of service "Lament for Frankie", and enthusiastic it to Kennedy.
• Luka Bloom's "Cool Breeze" on his 1998 ep Salty Heaven was written insert commemoration and in lamentation an assortment of Kennedy's death.
• Enya's 2000 song "Only Time" featured in a dim about a cancer sufferer was dedicated to Kennedy.
• The tune/song "Dobbin's Flowery Vale" has become commensurate with Kennedy and has antediluvian recorded by Mairead Ní Mhaonaigh on her 2009 debut album Imeall.

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