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"From his immersion, on the one hand, in the traditional repertoire
of the regional hinterland of Galway, Clare and Sligo/Leitrim,
and his excursions of the farthest reaches of 78's archives,
came a vast store of tunes and a familiarity with arrangements
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He also has a gift for absorbing and switching between
styles and evidently has paid detailed attention to the
variety of Irish regional styles. Philippe Varlet wrote
of him: "Frankie Gavin's fiddle playing is technically complex,
unabashedly brilliant, and has a pronounced, driving swing
which harks back to the sound of the 1920s."
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