The Chieftains
The Chieftains are an Irish musical group founded in 1962, 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,
Elvis Costello, Tom Jones, Sinead O'Connor, James Galway, and numerous country-western artists. In 1975, the group won praise for their
playing of "Women of Ireland" for Barry Ly ...read more
The Chieftains are an Irish musical group founded in 1962, 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,
Elvis Costello, Tom Jones, Sinead O'Connor, James Galway, and numerous country-western artists. In 1975, the group won praise for their
playing of "Women of Ireland" for Barry Lyndon, the Stanley Kubrick film.
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.
Look at any clover on the face of music today, and tip your bonnet to The Chieftains.
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