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Hi,
This year I'd join to the Festival dedicated to Frankie, I'm searching just personal opinions (or a personal description too) of people who has been in there.
Thanks

What's this in aid of?

"20th and final Frankie Kennedy Winter School" took place from Friday 27 December 2013 until Wednesday 1 January 2014.

RIP Frankie.

Altan - Live Stream from the Frankie Kennedy Winter School 2014
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFZ4FEztR2g

I believe that after twenty years they have dropped the 'Frankie Kennedy' name. The school now flies under a new name. I have seen the posters for this year but I can't recall what it is.

Mr.Gumby wrote:I believe that after twenty years they have dropped the 'Frankie Kennedy' name. The school now flies under a new name. I have seen the posters for this year but I can't recall what it is.

Ah, new info. Frankie's name is still on the poster.

https://www.facebook.com/ScoilGheimhridhFrankieKennedy
https://www.facebook.com/ScoilGheimhridh

"Scoil Gheimhridh Ghaoth Dobhair
The first Scoil Gheimhridh Ghaoth Dobhair will take place from Saturday 27th December 2014 until Thursday 1st January 2015. All the events will take place in Gaoth Dobhair, Co. Donegal. Events include Music, singing, dancing & Irish Language workshops, as well as concerts, lectures, film & family..."

I know people who have gone to the previous incarnation. Timberflute, you should go!

http://www.irishexaminer.com/viewpoints ... 54048.html

"The Frankie Kennedy Winter School, a unique festival of learning and performance in traditional music, is no more, though a local community group An Chrann/og will run their own winter school in the same venue. "

There has to be a story behind that change of name.

But I'm too far out of the loop to have any idea what it is.

Cheques and PMs accepted