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Vince Power, Prominent Concert and Festival Promoter, Dies at 76

Power built the Mean Fiddler Music Group from the ground up, an empire that once encompassed 30 venues and events.

He made his move to London at age 16, and initially ventured into the secondhand furniture business, but his love of music led him to invest in that derelict former drinking club in Harlesden. Power is remembered as a music man, and a maverick with a tough-guy image, but in an interview with The Irish Times, he described himself as a “lucky chancer”. “I’m going to miss you so very much, my friend in music, in thinking, in dreaming,” writes Welsh singer and songwriter Cerys Matthews, co-founder of Catatonia.

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