Tag Archives: The Chieftains

If the British folk revival from the 1960s had an individual “father” and guiding soul, after that Martin Carthy was it. Carthy’s impact transcends his capabilities, formidable though those are — aside from being probably one of the most talented acoustic guitarists, mandolinists, and general multi-instrumentalists operating the folk night …

Mary Dark is really a performer equally in the home singing traditional Irish folk music and modern music including blues, rock and roll, jazz, nation, and spirit. She was created right into a musical family members as the little girl of the fiddler along with a vocalist. She began skillfully …

Seán Ó Riada was the founder of the present day school (that is to state, the authentic historic style of performing) of Irish folk music and, equally essential, an essential nationalistic voice within the orchestral music of Ireland. Most widely known today like a composer, he was also present on …

Very few people will make an instrument mainly because localized because the Northumbrian little pipes sexy, but that’s just what Kathryn Tickell (who’s also an accomplished fiddler) has managed. On the way, additionally to many information under her personal name, she’s documented with Sting as well as the Chieftains, and …

At one stage in the mid-’70s, Horslips appeared poised to be Ireland’s response to Steeleye Span. However they also acquired a go at being another Jethro Tull (just an improved hard rock and roll clothing), or possibly Genesis, as well as Yes within their folkier occasions. Those events hardly ever …

With an encyclopedic understanding of traditional Irish music and virtuosic instrumental skill, Seamus Ennis (1919-1982) helped to keep the ancient folk songs and airs from the Emerald Isle. The sponsor of radio displays for Radio Eireann as well as the BBC,Ennis spent a lot of time within the rural countryside …

Whiskey Before Breakfast time were given birth to in 1994 when Dave Marlatt and Jeff Mondragon Sarnacki exchanged their brass horns for any fiddle and acoustic guitar. Previous to developing Whiskey, Dave and Jeff had been playing trombone and trumpet respectively within the rings Tom Collins & the Cocktail Shakers …

Although most widely known because the harpist using the Chieftains, Derek Bell’s career carries a raft of musical achievements and credits extending in to the worlds of both traditional and folk music — and he didn’t begin playing the harp until he was in his thirties. A significant body in …

An uillean piper from your region of Kildare, O’Flynn was a founding person in Planxty. A forward thinking performer, he offers documented with pop, folk, and traditional music artists and on film soundtracks in a number of styles.

The youngest from the Clancy Brothers, Liam Clancy played a significant role within the success from the Irish folk singing group that he distributed to his brothers. “I under no circumstances heard a vocalist as effective as (Liam),” stated Bob Dylan throughout a past due-’90s interview. “He was simply the …