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showing the joy and happiness that we can get from music, song and dance. Thirdly we wanted to raise funds for cancer research and the Hospice Foundation. We achieved our aims and had a marvellous day in the process. Mairead and Altan's Dermot and Ciaran came and played for huge audience who had gathered. It was at once a very poignant though terribly happy day.
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On the day of the planting ceremony over 400 of the school pupils, many past pupils and staff members put on a very special day-long marathon festival of music, song and dance. There was a three fold purpose. We wished to honour Frankie. We wished to celebrate his life in the way he enjoyed most,
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His memory of was as a gentle soul singing "Dobbin's Flowery Vale", a version that Frankie plays. And he had all those northern versions of songs. Frankie used to say, "really I have no tradition," but he had a connection with the tradition which he didn't know
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Church, Gaoth Dobhair, Co. Donegal, attended by hundreds of musicians from Ireland, Britain, the Continent and North America. The prayers were led by Father Gary Hastings in a Mass sung by members of Cor Chuil Aodha, led by Peadar O Riada.
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and taught himself to play. Later he learned the flute, a somewhat louder instrument, so that he could hear himself in sessions. His love for Mairéad coupled with perfectionist tendencies turned him into a well-respected flute player.
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in 1993, and continued to tour through 1994, the year of his death. Although Kennedy had experienced 18 months in remission, the cancer returned "full blast" afterwards. He died on 19 September at the age of 38 in the
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record in 1979 and later formed a short-lived group called Ragairne which also included Gearóid Ó Maonaigh, Ní Mhaonaigh's brother, on guitar, and was rejoined in 1981 by singer Eithne Ní Bhraonáin, later known as
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Kennedy's style was characterised first and foremost by the music he played; most of the tunes originated from County Donegal, and his flute style corresponded well with the characteristic
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concluded on fiddle and synthesizer playing "Paddy's Rambles in the Park". With his flute on the coffin, Frankie Kennedy was saluted by Altan's playing of his own reel, "Harvest Storm".
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It was a good time to be learning the flute there, because everybody had their own style. There wasn't anyone copying the next person – they ware all seeking music from the likes of
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Kennedy was widely considered to be a master of the simple system flute. "Simple system" flutes are so named because they do not use a metal key system as complex as the
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St. Oliver Plunkett School, where Kennedy and Mairéad taught, planted a tree in their Garden of Peace in memory of Kennedy. The school's staff and pupils planted a
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The new couple continued to play at sessions in Donegal, and this formed the basis for their musical partnership. They made their recording debut on Albert Fry's
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Established in December 1994 in remembrance of Kennedy and with the intention of keeping both his memory and the music of County Donegal alive, the
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until the last edition occurred in December 2013–January 2014. In 2004 the school released a CD compilation of solo Irish flute played by a "
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At the time, Kennedy and Ní Mhaonaigh were earning their living by teaching at St. Oliver Plunkett National School in
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He was advised by a friend that he should learn an instrument if he intended to court Mairéad, and so he got a
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than that of other popular Irish flute players like Matt Molloy. But like Molloy, the use of flattened "
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Kennedy became interested in Irish traditional music when he was 18 years old, through the music of
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The tune/song "Dobbin's Flowery Vale" has become synonymous with Kennedy and has been recorded by
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The flute-player Frankie Kennedy, of the traditional group Altan, was buried yesterday after a
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Altan, in accordance with Kennedy's wishes, continued to record and perform after his death.
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During this time, the group added guitarist Mark Kelly and released in 1987 a record called
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Dozens of songs have been written and recorded about Kennedy, including the following:
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wrote and recorded the instrumental "Lament for Frankie", and dedicated it to Kennedy.
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broadcast the Mass live, with overlays of the flute-player's music.
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was written in commemoration and in lamentation of Kennedy's death.
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Kennedy played flutes made by Chris Wilkes and Patrick Olwell.
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Blooming Meadows: The World of Irish Traditional Musicians
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have recorded several songs lamenting Kennedy, including
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Kennedy performing with the short-lived band Ragairne on
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Kennedy learned to play the flute in his birth city of
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player named Mairéad, daughter of the session's leader
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Index

Frankie Kennedy in the 1970s.
Belfast
County Antrim
Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast
Northern Ireland
Irish traditional
folk
World music
Flautist
Gael Linn
Green Linnet
www.frankiekennedy.com
tin whistle
Belfast
Altan
Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh
Frankie Kennedy Winter Music School
Robert Cinnamond
Glenavy
County Antrim
Horslips
Planxty
The Chieftains
The Boys of the Lough
Gweedore
Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh
sixth form
Gaeltacht
Gweedore
County Donegal

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