The Chieftains




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The Chieftains

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The Chieftains performing in 2008

Background information
Origin
Dublin, Ireland
Genres
Traditional Irish
Irish folk
Celtic
Years active 1963–present
Labels
Claddagh, Island, RCA
Associated acts
Ceoltóirí Chualann
Carlos Núñez
Website thechieftains.com
Members
Paddy Moloney
Seán Keane
Kevin Conneff
Matt Molloy
Past members
Martin Fay
Seán Potts
Michael Tubridy
David Fallon
Peadar Mercier
Derek Bell
Ronnie McShane

The Chieftains are a traditional Irish band formed in Dublin in 1963, by Paddy Moloney, Sean Potts and Michael Tubridy. The band had their first rehearsals at Moloney's house, with Tubridy, Martin Fay and David Fallon. Their sound, which is almost entirely instrumental and largely built around uilleann pipes, has become synonymous with traditional Irish music and they are regarded as having helped popularise Irish music across the world.[1]


Paddy Moloney came out of Ceoltóirí Chualann, a group of musicians who specialised in instrumentals, and sought to form a new band. The group remained only semi-professional up until the 1970s and by then had achieved great success in Ireland and the United Kingdom. In 1973, their popularity began to spread to the United States when their previous albums were released there by Island Records. They received further acclaim when they worked on the Academy Award-winning soundtrack to Stanley Kubrick's 1975 film Barry Lyndon, which triggered their transition to the mainstream in the US.[2][3]


The group continued to release successful records throughout the 1970s and 1980s, and their work with Van Morrison in 1988 resulted in the critically acclaimed album Irish Heartbeat.[4] They went on to collaborate with many other well-known musicians and singers; among them Luciano Pavarotti, the Rolling Stones, Madonna, Sinéad O'Connor and Roger Daltrey.[5] The band have won six Grammys during their career and they were given a Lifetime Achievement Award at the prestigious BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in 2002. Some music experts[6] have credited The Chieftains with bringing traditional Irish music to a worldwide audience, so much so that the Irish government awarded them the honorary title of 'Ireland's Musical Ambassadors' in 1989.[7] In 2012, they celebrated their 50th anniversary with the release of their most recent record Voice of Ages.[8]




Contents






  • 1 Name


  • 2 Career


  • 3 Collaborations


  • 4 Success and legacy


  • 5 Notable performances


  • 6 Personnel


    • 6.1 Current members


    • 6.2 Former members


    • 6.3 Touring members




  • 7 Discography


  • 8 References


  • 9 Sources


  • 10 External links





Name


The band's name came from the book Death of a Chieftain by Irish author John Montague.[9] Assisted early on by Garech Browne, they signed with his company Claddagh Records. They needed financial success abroad, and succeeded in this, as within a few years their third album's sleeve note section was printed in three languages.



Career


In 2012, they celebrated their 50th anniversary with an ambitious album and tour. The album, Voice of Ages, was produced by T-Bone Burnett and featured the Chieftains collaborating with many musicians including Bon Iver, Paolo Nutini and The Decemberists. It also included a collaboration with NASA astronaut Catherine Coleman playing the flute aboard the International Space Station as it orbited the earth. On 17 March, The Chieftains played in Carnegie Hall.[10]



Collaborations




Paddy Moloney pictured with Bob Dylan, who is a fan of the band's work.


The band have become known for their vast work of collaborations with popular musicians of many genres, including country music, Galician traditional music, Newfoundland music, and rock and roll.


They have performed with (in alphabetical order):




  • Moya Brennan

  • Jackson Browne

  • Rosanne Cash

  • Ry Cooder

  • Elvis Costello

  • Roger Daltrey

  • Marianne Faithfull

  • Bela Fleck

  • James Galway

  • Art Garfunkel

  • Glass Tiger

  • Mike Gordon

  • Great Big Sea

  • Nanci Griffith

  • Emmylou Harris

  • Mick Jagger

  • Tom Jones

  • Kepa Junkera

  • Mark Knopfler


  • Nolwenn Leroy[11]

  • Los Cenzontles

  • Lyle Lovett

  • Ashley MacIsaac

  • Sarah McLachlan

  • Natalie MacMaster

  • Madonna

  • Ziggy Marley

  • Loreena McKennitt

  • Natalie Merchant

  • Van Morrison

  • Willie Nelson

  • Nickel Creek

  • Punch Brothers

  • Carlos Núñez

  • Paolo Nutini

  • Siobhán O'Brien

  • Sinéad O'Connor

  • Mike Oldfield

  • Luciano Pavarotti

  • Pink Martini

  • Eros Ramazzotti

  • Earl Scruggs

  • Ricky Skaggs

  • Sting

  • The Civil Wars

  • The Corrs

  • The Decemberists

  • The Dubliners

  • The Low Anthem

  • The Rolling Stones

  • Ultravox

  • Jim White

  • John Williams



In May 1986, they performed at Self Aid, a benefit concert held in Dublin that focused on the problem of chronic unemployment which was widespread in Ireland at that time. In 1994, they appeared in Roger Daltrey's production, album and video of A Celebration: The Music of Pete Townshend and The Who.


They also performed with Canadian astronaut Cmdr. Chris Hadfield in Houston, TX on 15 February 2013. Cmdr. Hadfield sang and played guitar on "Moondance" from aboard the International Space Station.



Success and legacy


The band has won six Grammy Awards and been nominated eighteen times. They have won an Emmy and a Genie and contributed tracks, including their highly praised version of the song Women of Ireland, to Leonard Rosenman's Oscar-winning score for Stanley Kubrick's 1975 film Barry Lyndon.[8] In 2002 they were given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the UK's BBC Radio 2. Two of their singles have been minor hits in the UK Singles Chart. "Have I Told You Lately" (credited to The Chieftains with Van Morrison) reached No. 71 in 1995. "I Know My Love" (credited to The Chieftains featuring The Corrs) reached No. 37 in 1999.[12]


Dr. Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin[13] said the success of The Chieftains helped place Irish traditional music on a par with other musical genres in the world of popular entertainment. By collaborating with pop and rock musicians, they have taken Irish music to a much wider audience. They have become, in effect, musical ambassadors for Ireland. This de facto role was officially recognised by the Irish Government in 1989 when it awarded the group the honorary title of Ireland's Musical Ambassadors.[8]



Notable performances


They played in a concert for Pope John Paul II, before an audience of more than one million people in 1979 in Phoenix Park in Dublin, to mark the Papal visit to Ireland.[8]


In 1983, they were invited by the Chinese Government to perform with the Chinese Broadcasting Art Group in a concert on the Great Wall of China, becoming the first western musical group to do so.[14] They were the first group to perform in the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., invited by Senator Edward Kennedy and the former Speaker of the House, Tip O'Neill.[8]


In 2011, they performed at a concert in Dublin attended by President Mary McAleese and Queen Elizabeth II of Britain during her first ever official trip to the Republic of Ireland.[15]



Personnel



Current members





  • Paddy Moloney – uilleann pipes, tin whistle, button accordion, bodhrán (1962–present)


  • Seán Keane – fiddle, tin whistle (1968–present)


  • Kevin Conneff – bodhrán, vocals (1976–present)


  • Matt Molloy – flute, tin whistle (1979–present)




Former members





  • Martin Fay – fiddle, bones (1962–2002; died 2012)


  • Seán Potts – tin whistle, bones, bodhrán (1962–1979; died 2014)


  • Michael Tubridy – flute, concertina, tin whistle (1962–1979)

  • David Fallon – bodhrán (1962–1966)

  • Peadar Mercier – bodhrán, bones (1966–1976; died 1991)


  • Derek Bell – Irish harp, keyboard instruments, oboe (1975–2002; died 2002)

  • Ronnie McShane – bones, bodhrán (1975–1976; died 2017)




Touring members





  • Tim Edey – guitars, melodeon/button accordion, piano, backing vocals

  • Triona Marshall – keyboards, harp

  • Tara Breen – fiddle, saxophone, step dancing


  • Alyth McCormack – vocals, step dancing

  • Jon Pilatzke – fiddle, step dancing

  • Nathan Pilatzke – step dancing


  • Cara Butler – step dancing




Discography












  • The Chieftains (1964)


  • 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 (1980)


  • The Year of the French (1982)


  • The Grey Fox (1982) (soundtrack to The Grey Fox)


  • Concert Orchestra (1983)


  • The Chieftains in China (1985)


  • Ballad of the Irish Horse (1986)


  • Celtic Wedding (1987)


  • In Ireland (1987) (with James Galway)


  • Irish Heartbeat (1988) (with Van Morrison)


  • The Tailor of Gloucester (1988)


  • A Chieftains Celebration (1989)


  • Over the Sea To Skye: The Celtic Connection (1990) (with James Galway)


  • The Bells of Dublin (1991)


  • Reel Music (1991)


  • Another Country (1992)


  • An Irish Evening (1992)


  • The Best of The Chieftains (1992)


  • Music at Matt Molloy’s (1992)


  • Far and Away original motion picture soundtrack (with John Williams) (1992)


  • The Celtic Harp: A Tribute to Edward Bunting (1993) (with The Belfast Harp Orchestra)


  • The Long Black Veil (1995)


  • Film Cuts (1996)


  • Santiago (1996)


  • Long Journey Home (1998)


  • Fire in the Kitchen (1998)


  • Silent Night: A Christmas in Rome (1998)


  • Tears of Stone (1999)


  • Water From the Well (2000)


  • The Wide World Over (2002)


  • Down the Old Plank Road: The Nashville Sessions (2002)


  • Further Down the Old Plank Road (2003)


  • Live from Dublin: A Tribute to Derek Bell (2005)


  • The Essential Chieftains (2006)


  • San Patricio (2010) (with Ry Cooder)


  • Voice of Ages (2012)




References





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  2. ^ Ratliff, Ben (3 February 2012). "Stones, Chieftains, Beach Boys and El Gran Combo Turn 50". The New York Times.


  3. ^ "Articles about Chieftains – Chicago Tribune". Articles.chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 14 February 2013.


  4. ^ Sean Michaels (22 November 2011). "Chieftains team up with Bon Iver and the Decemberists | Music | guardian.co.uk". London: Guardian. Retrieved 14 February 2013.


  5. ^ "The Chieftains: For 50 Years, Irish Music For The World". NPR. 14 February 2012. Retrieved 14 February 2013.


  6. ^ "Stephen D. Winick – The Chieftains". Stevewinick.com. 17 March 1975. Retrieved 14 February 2013.


  7. ^ [1] Archived 30 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine.


  8. ^ abcde McCarthy, John Patrick (2006). Ireland: a reference guide from the Renaissance to the present. Infobase. p. 216. ISBN 978-0-8160-5378-0.


  9. ^ "Shaw Communications". Members.shaw.ca. Retrieved 4 August 2018.


  10. ^ "The Chieftains – out of this world". independent. Ireland. 3 March 2012. Retrieved 6 March 2012.


  11. ^ "Nolwenn Leroy to join The Chieftains in Paris!" Archived 5 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine.. The Chieftains. 20 June 2012. Retrieved 29 February 2016.


  12. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 104. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.


  13. ^ Pocket History of Irish Traditional Music, pub The O'Brien Press, Dublin, p155


  14. ^ Lannert, John (6 March 1992). "An Irish Tradition For 29 Years, The Chieftains Have Been Entertaining Audiences And Attracting The Admiration of Fellow Performers". Sun-Sentinel. Retrieved 27 February 2011.


  15. ^ "Queen Elizabeth II's historic visit a century in the making". Irishcanadamag.com. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 14 February 2013.




Sources



  • Glatt, John (1997). The Chieftains: the Authorized Biography. New York: Da Capo. ISBN 978-0-306-80922-4.


External links







  • Official website

  • Band history

  • National Geographic World Music website – The Chieftains










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