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    The Chieftains: Paddy Moloney

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    The Chieftains were formed in 1962 when uilleann piper Paddy Moloney assembled musicians to record an album. Their self-titled debut album was released in 1963. Over the decades, the group evolved and collaborated with many other musicians, producing numerous acclaimed albums. Their 1979 lineup settled as the core group for the next 20 years. In the 1980s, they had highly successful collaborations with Chinese musicians as well as Van Morrison, expanding their sound with new influences. While members have come and gone over the decades, Paddy Moloney has remained the leader of The Chieftains, who still perform today carrying on their legacy.

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    The Chieftains were formed in 1962 when uilleann piper Paddy Moloney assembled musicians to record an album. Their self-titled debut album was released in 1963. Over the decades, the group evolved and collaborated with many other musicians, producing numerous acclaimed albums. Their 1979 lineup settled as the core group for the next 20 years. In the 1980s, they had highly successful collaborations with Chinese musicians as well as Van Morrison, expanding their sound with new influences. While members have come and gone over the decades, Paddy Moloney has remained the leader of The Chieftains, who still perform today carrying on their legacy.

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    Everything you need to know about the Irish traditional group- The Chieftains

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    04 The Chieftains

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    The Chieftains were formed in 1962 when uilleann piper Paddy Moloney assembled musicians to record an album. Their self-titled debut album was released in 1963. Over the decades, the group evolved and collaborated with many other musicians, producing numerous acclaimed albums. Their 1979 lineup settled as the core group for the next 20 years. In the 1980s, they had highly successful collaborations with Chinese musicians as well as Van Morrison, expanding their sound with new influences. While members have come and gone over the decades, Paddy Moloney has remained the leader of The Chieftains, who still perform today carrying on their legacy.

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    The Chieftains

    In 1962, uilleann piper Paddy Moloney assembled a group to


    record a once-off album for the Claddagh label. The musicians
    were already familiar with each other from playing together in
    Seán Ó Ríada's group, Ceoltóirí Chualann. The album was
    called “The Chieftains” and was released in 1963 featuring
    uilleann pipes, fiddle, flute and bodhran. The group would
    continue to evolve into one of the greatest musical products that
    Ireland had ever know, producing numerous albums and
      collaborations with many famous musicians from within and
    Paddy Moloney without our traditional music heritage.

    “Chieftains 4” marked the first appearance of harpist, Derek Bell as a full-time Chieftain. For Moloney,
    the harp represented Irish music in its most refined form, a form which he endeavored to match in
    quality with his attention to detail in his musical arrangements. This album also featured an original
    composition by Seán Ó Ríada, the hauntingly beautiful Mná Na hÉireann (Women of Ireland). The
    music combined a traditional Irish melody with the classical instruments of the RTE Concert Orchestra.
    This piece took The Chieftains music into the world of film where it featured as a love theme in the
    Academy Award Winning film, Barry Lyndon, in 1975.

    By 1979, the group which would be known as The Chieftains for the next twenty years settled as Paddy
    Moloney on pipes, Martin Fay and Seán Keane on fiddle, Matt Molloy on flute, Kevin Conneff on
    bodhrán, and Derek Bell on harp.

    Following a hugely successful trip to China in 1983, “The Chieftains in China” album was released in
    1985 featuring a fusion of Irish and Chinese styles with pentatonic scales and open-fifth harmonies in
    tunes such as Off the Great Wall and A Tribute To O’Carolan.

    In 1986, they recorded a collaboration with Van Morrison called “Irish Heartbeat,” in which Morrison’s
    use of brass instruments and drums along with his use of blues notes successfully married Irish music
    with influences of pop and rock music. The following year, the group recorded another collaboration
    album, “James Galway and the Chieftains.” Tracks such as Danny Boy and Down by the Sally Gardens
    are examples of how well Galway’s classical flute sound and the traditional Irish sound of The
    Chieftains’ pipes, traditional flute and tin whistle compliment each other.

    After almost 40 years, the ranks of the Chieftains began to dissolve in 2001, when Martin Fay decided to
    semi-retire from the group. However, the Chieftains faced their greatest heartbreak in 2002 when
    harpist, Derek Bell, died while on tour in the US. The remaining Chieftains still perform today in both a
    solo and a group capacity.

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