The Chieftains — Paddy Moloney, Kevin Conneff and Matt Molloy — will be joined by Jon Pilatzke, Alyth McCormack, Triona Marshall, Tara Breen and Tim Edey. Photo provided Formed in Dublin, Ireland, in ...

On Tuesday, February 21, UCSB Arts & Lectures welcomes The Chieftains back to town at the Granada Theatre as they celebrate their 55th anniversary tour. Perhaps no band has been more responsible for ...

Paddy Moloney, the Irish folk musician and leader of The Chieftains, has died at the age of 83. A cause of death was not disclosed. Moloney “made an enormous contribution to Irish traditional music, ...

The Hollywood Bowl staged "A Celtic Celebration" by taking in not only the Irish, but also the Scots, the Galicians and some stray American, German and English composers. But with the Chieftains as ...

They may be best known for bringing traditional Irish music to an international audience, but during the past 40 years, The Chieftains have also experimented with several divergent genres, including ...

During a tour celebrating 50 years as one of the world's most celebrated traditional Irish bands, The Chieftains stopped by Fraser Studio at Boston's WGBH this week to share some tunes and have a few ...

"I was 6 years of age," he says, "and my mother bought me what you call a pennywhistle — a tin whistle — for one shilling and nine pence." The Chieftains began in 1962, at a time when rock 'n' roll ...

Paddy Moloney, the legendary tin whistle player and co-founder of the Chieftains, died Monday. He was 83. The Irish music icon’s passing was confirmed by the Irish Traditional Music Archive. However, ...