Category: Archive
February 17, 2011
By Staff Reporter
Named for the founding flutist of Altan who died from cancer at age 38 in 1994, Scoil Gheimhridh Frankie Kennedy, or Frankie Kennedy Winter School, will be celebrating its 12th anniversary from Dec. 27 to Jan. 2 in Bunbeg, Letterkenny, in northwest Donegal.
As an Irish Echo and the Wall Street Journal writer on Irish traditional music, I had the privilege of speaking at the 1999-2000 festival, held right on the heels of one of the worst storms to hit Ireland in decades. Pelting rain and winds reaching 110 miles per hour, the strongest since Hurricane Debbie in 1961, had left 160,000 households in the country without power. The storm caused over