The Chieftains are a Grammy winning Irish musical group founded in 1962 (Du… Read Full Bio ↴The Chieftains are a Grammy winning Irish musical group founded in 1962 (Dublin, Ireland), known for performing and popularizing Irish traditional music.
The band has recorded many albums of instrumental Irish folk music, as well as multiple collaborations with popular musicians of many genres, including Country music, Galician traditional music, Cape Breton and Newfoundland music, and rock and roll. They have performed with Van Morrison, The Rolling Stones, Sting, Roger Daltrey, Elvis Costello, Tom Jones, Sinéad O'Connor, James Galway, Jackson Browne, Nancy Griffith and numerous Country-western artists. In 1975, the group won praise for their playing of "Women of Ireland" for Stanley Kubrick's movie Barry Lyndon.
They have won six Grammy Awards and have been nominated eighteen times. In 2002 they were given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the UK's BBC Radio 2. The front covers of the first four albums were designed by Edward Delaney.
Paddy Moloney is the band's leader, and composes or arranges most of the band's music. While the band's members changed numerous times in the band's early history, the membership solidified in 1979 when Matt Molloy replaced Michael Tubridy.
From then until 2002, members included:
Paddy Moloney (uilleann pipes, tin whistle, button accordion, bodhrĂĄn)
Matt Molloy (flute, tin whistle)
Kevin Conneff (bodhrĂĄn, vocals)
SeĂĄn Keane (fiddle, tin whistle)
Martin Fay (fiddle, bones) (born 1938; died 14 November 2012)
Derek Bell (Irish harp, keyboard instruments, oboe) (born 21 October 1935; died 17 October 2002)
In 2002, Fay retired from active membership. In the same year, Bell died due to complications following a minor operation. Fay died on 14 November 2012.
The band has recorded many albums of instrumental Irish folk music, as well as multiple collaborations with popular musicians of many genres, including Country music, Galician traditional music, Cape Breton and Newfoundland music, and rock and roll. They have performed with Van Morrison, The Rolling Stones, Sting, Roger Daltrey, Elvis Costello, Tom Jones, Sinéad O'Connor, James Galway, Jackson Browne, Nancy Griffith and numerous Country-western artists. In 1975, the group won praise for their playing of "Women of Ireland" for Stanley Kubrick's movie Barry Lyndon.
They have won six Grammy Awards and have been nominated eighteen times. In 2002 they were given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the UK's BBC Radio 2. The front covers of the first four albums were designed by Edward Delaney.
Paddy Moloney is the band's leader, and composes or arranges most of the band's music. While the band's members changed numerous times in the band's early history, the membership solidified in 1979 when Matt Molloy replaced Michael Tubridy.
From then until 2002, members included:
Paddy Moloney (uilleann pipes, tin whistle, button accordion, bodhrĂĄn)
Matt Molloy (flute, tin whistle)
Kevin Conneff (bodhrĂĄn, vocals)
SeĂĄn Keane (fiddle, tin whistle)
Martin Fay (fiddle, bones) (born 1938; died 14 November 2012)
Derek Bell (Irish harp, keyboard instruments, oboe) (born 21 October 1935; died 17 October 2002)
In 2002, Fay retired from active membership. In the same year, Bell died due to complications following a minor operation. Fay died on 14 November 2012.
Carolan's Concerto
The Chieftains Lyrics
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old bladder Horn
oh, the hours the many hours of practise by those musicians
pays off in the end, caught on a recording and not lost to the moment .
proof for evidence that you can capture more than sound
that the instruments, music can talk/take on a higher thought process
filtered by hard practise and rehearsal a kind of spiritual moment
a focust moment of minds
an evolvement caught
for the education
of the ears
caught for the listener to ponder.
in the sweet spot forever
better than fantastic
Thomas Mulrooney
Derek Bell... legend. It doesn't get any better
Luminous Raven
TOTALLY SUPERNATURAL !!! ... This amazing, beautiful man SAW EVERYTHING ... Turlough O'Carolan, the 'blind' harpist, wandering among the green mountains of Ireland, 300 years ago ... He knew the Love inside every single person resonates eternally outside all limits of Time and our puny ideas of Life and Death! And he was able to transmit that secret in these very notes! Yes, he was in perfect harmony with the God we hear so clearly here expressed, through his own human fingers !!! MAGNIFICENT!
Rio Herwindo
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vimabuma
Fantastic!
Comte Roi
Yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss. The last time I tried looking for this version was about 3 years ago when I was still at university. I searched for such a long time and gave up finding it. Now it is here! Thank you so much for your existence. Upon your death, I shall become passionate about deifying you, turning you into a god for worship!.....now I'm going to calm down and continue writing.
Michael Carolan
Masterful , but of course he is my ancestor,!!
Robert Townsend
There's something magical about this music! I think it might have been written by the little people!
Ryan David-Joseph Sauvageau
Go into the light Carol Anne! đœ đ đ
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straight fiređ„”đ„”
quake gaming
this is my home work.........damn it