String to his bow
Tickets sold out two months in advance, but some remain available for a performance in Limerick on Thursday.
As a shy child, Kennedy sat in a basket under the piano at which his mother taught. He attended the Yehudi Menuhin School of Music in Surrey. Menuhin secretly paid for Kennedy’s tuition. Kennedy was playing Fats Waller tunes by ear on the piano at 10 years old, and at 13 Kennedy first met Stéphane Grappelli, the ‘godfather of jazz violin’, who was visiting the school.
