The Chieftains, arguably the most famous Irish music ensemble, is performing at Rutland’s Paramount Theatre at 8 p.m. Monday, March 10. This is something of a musical coup as this ...

The Chieftains and the Rolling Stones both started in 1962, in Dublin and London, respectively. Both were determined to earn a wider audience for their respective genres, although The Chieftains’ ...

Paul McCartney, Madonna, Doc Watson and Luciano Pavarotti have at least one thing in common: They've all collaborated with Irish folk band The Chieftains. The band, credited with helping to revive ...

In the early 1960s, a group of Dubliners banded together over a shared reverence of traditional Irish music to form The Chieftains. In the intervening 57 years between then and now, The Chieftains’ ...

New music from Blind Boys of Alabama; A Derek Bell tribute from The Chieftains; Music for a memoir by Black 47; The hopes and fears of pop trio Keane; Songs for Silverman from Ben Folds; The deadpan ...

Paddy Moloney, the founder of the popular Irish folk band the Chieftains, has died at 83. No cause of death was given. His death was announced by the Irish Traditional Music Archive. "Paddy made an ...

The legendary Irish band the Chieftains have planned a new 2020 U.S. tour that they’re calling The Irish Goodbye. The tour starts on February 14, 2020, in Maryville, Tennessee and ends in Fairfax, ...

Paddy Moloney, the founder and leader of Ireland’s Chieftains, was short in stature, high-pitched in voice, and always bubbling with jokes and laughter. But Moloney, who died Monday at age 83, was a ...

Before The Beatles played "The Ed Sullivan Show" in 1964 and changed the world of popular music forever, The Chieftains were already a band. The Irish music group formed in Dublin in 1962, and they ...

Paddy Moloney, who helped revive traditional Irish music as the founder and guiding force of the Chieftains, a largely instrumental ensemble that resurrected forgotten jigs, reels, airs and ballads ...

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. In this April 2, 2012 photo, Irish musician Paddy Moloney of the ...