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The Chieftains

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The Chieftains are an Irish musical group founded in 1963, 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, Mick Jagger, Elvis Costello, Roger Daltrey, Nancy Griffith, Tom Jones, Sinéad O'Connor, James Galway, The Corrs, Art Garfunkel 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.

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[edit] Band members

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 1976 when Kevin Conneff replaced Peadar Mercier. From then until 2002, members included:

In 2002, Fay retired from active membership and Bell died.

[edit] Discography

All albums are available worldwide from www.claddaghrecords.com [1]

  • The Chieftains 1 (1963)
  • The Chieftains 2 (1969)
  • The Chieftains 3 (1971)
  • The Chieftains 4 (1973)
  • The Chieftains 5 (1975)
  • The Chieftains 6: Bonaparte's Retreat (1976)
  • The Chieftains 7 (1977)
  • The Chieftains Live! (1977)
  • The Chieftains 8 (1978)
  • The Chieftains 9: Boil the Breakfast Early (1979)
  • The Chieftains 10: Cotton-Eyed Joe (1981)
  • The Year of the French (1982)
  • Concert Orchestra (1982)
  • The Chieftains in China (1985)
  • Celtic Wedding (1987)
  • A Chieftains Celebration (1989)
  • Bells of Dublin (1991)
  • Another Country (1992)
  • An Irish Evening (1992)
  • The Long Black Veil (1995)
  • Santiago (1996)
  • Fire in the Kitchen (1998)
  • Tears of Stone (1999)
  • Water From the Well (2000)
  • The Wide World Over (2002)
  • The Long Black Veil (2004 Mobile Fidelity Gold CD reissue)
  • Live From Dublin (2005)

[edit] Former members

Other former members include:

[edit] Sound samples

[edit] External links

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