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Musical artist

Frankie Kennedy (30 September – 19 September ) was a flute and tin whistle player born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He was also the co-founder of the band Altan, formed with his wife Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh. The popular Frankie Kennedy Winter Music School was founded in in his honour.^[1]

Biography

Early life

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

Kennedy's uncle was married to the daughter of Robert Cinnamond, a singer from Glenavy, County Antrim, who was a frequent visitor in his family home.

His memory of [Cinnamond] 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 himself.

—&#;Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh^[3]

Kennedy became interested in Irish traditional music when he was 18 years old, through the music of Ho