Founding Chieftain Paddy Moloney, who plays Uilleann pipes and tin whistles, remains the band’s leader 52 years after it began. O’Riada, who died at age 40 in 1971, had reintroduced the world to the ...

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 ...

The Chieftains brought their 40th-anniversary show into the Paramount Theater Saturday night, delivering two hours of traditional Irish music with some other things thrown in for good measure.

In 1995, The Rolling Stones teamed up with The Chieftains, a traditional Irish folk band from Dublin, to cover “Rocky Road to Dublin” on the album Long Black Veil. The song, which is originally from ...

The news of the sudden and unexpected passing of Seán Keane in his Rathcoole home in Dublin on May 7 reverberated rapidly around the traditional music realm as yet another great loss in a seemingly ...

MIAMI (Billboard) - The musical border between Latin and Irish culture has been crossed often by artists from both sides of the divide. But the connection has rarely, if ever, been brought to light as ...

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, ...