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 ...

The swell of interest in Celtic music during recent years surely must be credited to the longtime efforts of the Chieftains, who, for more than three decades, have been the champions of traditional ...

Scratch the surface of most Irish music and a surprising amount of world music and you might find Paddy Moloney and the Chieftains behind it. The ethereal voice in “Titanic” sang with the Chieftains ...

In 1984, Moloney hired Flatley to dance with the Chieftains, the not-so-traditional Irish music group he founded in 1963. Price of fame "Heh, heh, Riverfarce," chuckled the 68-year-old Moloney during ...

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, ...

In this April 2, 2012 photo, Irish musician Paddy Moloney of the Chieftains, holds up a tin whistle at his home in Naples, Fla. Moloney collaborates with musicians, Bon Iver, the Pistol Annies, the ...

NAPLES, Fla.NAPLES, Fla. — When Paddy Moloney started considering possible collaborators for The Chieftains’ 50th anniversary album, he knew the kind of artists he didn’t want: Mick Jagger, Sinead ...