Hi there. I’m “Famous” Dave Flynn.
I’m a musician, performer and music teacher, originally from Wexford, now living in Sligo, and I’ve been singing all my life. (I remember knowing all the words of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at six years old – when my family would visit our grandparents we’d sing the first act on the way up and the second act on the way home.) At thirteen, I started playing guitar, and in my early twenties I took up the electric bass.
My musical inspirations include Paul Simon, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Nina Simone, Brian May and Queen. I studied Popular Music Performance in Ballyfermot College of Further Education (1999-2001), and also attended Newpark Music School, Blackrock, where I completed the one-year Professional Musician Training Course (2004-2005). I hold three Grade 8 certificates (in Electric Guitar [Distinction], Electric Bass [Distinction] and Acoustic Guitar [Merit]) from Rock School/RSL(UK). I’ve played and recorded on both guitar and bass with Paddy Casey, Dave Couse and The Impossibles, The Guggenheim Grotto, Edwyn Collins and many others. I also starred on guitar and vocals in the acclaimed 2010 production “An Evening with Sgt Pepper”, produced by Kieran Quinn and featuring 16 Sligo-based musicians and actors.
When I moved to Sligo in 2011, I quickly became heavily involved in the local music scene, performing with several local bands and dozens of local musicians. I was a member of Anything Goes, who in 2013 wrote and performed the successful show ‘Shut Up And Listen – 100 Years of Pop Music in 100 Minutes’. I can regularly be seen on the Hawkswell stage in Kieran Quinn’s famous Theme Nights, and I also perform throughout the area in local pubs and venues.
I am also a choir director, having begun with the Hawkswell Theatre’s much-loved Sligo Sings programme in 2015, where I worked with the Sligo County Council Choir (now known as Heart’s Desire, who I still conduct). I worked again with the Hawkswell on their occasional pop-up choir called Sing For The Hell Of It. From there I was asked to participate in David Brophy’s hugely popular three-part 2017 RTE series The Choir Of Ages, with whom I still work, and most recently I have been working with a new intergenerational choir, Glór Shligigh (co-funded by Music Generation Sligo and the HSE).
(Black & White photo above by Laura Hunt)
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