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The Chieftains with Paddy Moloney and Special Guests

THE BAND Paddy Moloney Uilleann pipes/Tin whistle Matt Molloy Flute Kevin Conneff Bodhrรกn/Vocal Triona Marshall Harp/Keyboards Jon Pilatzke Fiddle/Dance Nathan Pilatzke Dance Alyth McCormack Vocals Jeff White Guitar/Vocals Deanie Richardson Fiddle/Vocals Cara Butler Dance THU, MAR 3, 2011 | Overture Hall

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THE CHIEFTAINS The Chieftains are recognized for bringing traditional Irish music to the world’s attention. They have uncovered the wealth of traditional Irish music that has accumulated over the centuries, making the music their own with a style that is as exhilarating as it is definitive.

This has led the Chieftains to being officially named Ireland’s Musical Ambassadors, as they have become the standard bearers of the Irish folk music tradition. The winners of six GRAMMY awards, The Chieftains have been nominated for a total of 18, and have also won an Emmy and a Genie award.

In 1975, The Chieftains recorded the soundtrack to Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon, featuring the hit single “Women Of Ireland,” for which they won an Academy Award. In January 2011, The National Arts Club awarded Paddy Moloney the Medal of Honor for lifetime achievement in music.

The Chieftains were formed in 1962

by Paddy Moloney, from the ranks of the top folk musicians in Ireland. Paddy brought together fiddler Martin Fay, flautist Michael Tubridy, tin whistle virtuoso Seán Potts, and bodhrán player David Fallon. Named after the book, Death of a Chieftain, by Irish author John Montague, they formed originally to record a one-off instrumental album.

But their ongoing popularity in Ireland motivated the group to reunite five years later with some additional artists, fiddler Seán Keane and Peader Mercier.

The much beloved Derek Bell, brilliant Irish harpist and noted raconteur, came on board in 1973 (he died in 2002 and is missed to this day by his colleagues).

It wasn’t until 1975 that The Chieftains became a full time ensemble, beginning an illustrious touring career with a historic performance in Albert Hall in London. The following few years saw the departure of Mercier, and the addition of bodhrán player and vocalist Kevin Conneff, and another lineup change in ‘78/79 with the departure of Potts and Tubridy and a new flautist, Matt Molloy.

Although their early following was purely a folk audience, the range and variation of their music very quickly captured a much broader public, making them today the best known Irish band in the world. Never afraid to shock purists and push boundaries, The Chieftains have amassed a dizzingly varied discography. They have been involved in such historic events as a tour of China (the first Western group to perform on the Great Wall) and Roger Waters’ “The Wall” performance in Berlin in 1990. They became the first group to give a concert in the Capitol Building in Washington DC (at the invitation of former Speaker, Thomas “Tip” O’ Neill) and performed at a memorial service in New York for the victims of September 11. In 1979, The Chieftains welcomed Pope John Paul II to Ireland with a performance in his honor that was seen by 135 million viewers around the world. They have performed with some of the finest symphony orchestras worldwide and have broken many musical boundaries by collaborating and performing with some of the biggest names in rock, pop and traditional music.

In 2010, The Chieftains released their latest album on The Concord Music Group, a collaboration with guitarist/producer Ry Cooder entitled San Patricio. The album was named after the San Patricio battalion, a group of Irish immigrant conscripts who deserted the U.S. Army in 1846 to fight on the Mexican side in the MexicanAmerican War. An extraordinary collaboration with many of the most distinguished Mexican and MexicanAmerican musicians including Lila Downs, Los Tigres Del Norte, Los Cenzontles and Carlos Nunez, as well as narration by Liam Neeson and a piece featuring Linda Rondstadt. A commercial and critical success, the album sold over 60,000 copies in North America and made number 37 in the Billboard 200. Extraordinarily, San Patricio was the subject of a St. The Chieftains | Overture Center 3

THE CHIEFTAINS Patrick’s Day 2010 New York Times editorial which celebrated the unlikely juxtaposition between the Irish and the Mexicans, “The rest is joy, thoroughly Mexican yet utterly Irish, carried aloft by tin whistles, skin drums, pipes, harps, guitars and stomping feet. It’s a mix you’ve never heard, but eerily familiar….

We are all people who have lost our land in one sad way and found another.

Whether we lament and celebrate in a pub or cantina, whether our tricolor flag has a cactus on it or not, we are closer to one another than we remember.”

In 2012, The Chieftains will celebrate their 50th Anniversary with extensive touring in Europe and North America, culminating with a concert presented

by Carnegie Hall on March 17. The Chieftains’ live concerts are popular the world over and known for the scope of music performed, the grace and humor of the artists and the visiting dancers and pipe bands that participate throughout. Paddy Moloney is a

uilleann pipe virtuoso as well as serving as the master of ceremonies. Joining him are long time Chieftains Matt Molloy on flute, Sean Keane on violin, and Kevin Conneff as the rhythmic and vocal heartbeat of the ensemble on the bodhrán. Over the past few seasons, they have been touring with Ottowa Valley step dance and fiddle sensations Nathan and Jon Pilatzke, the sensational dancer Cara Butler, who has graced The Chieftains’ stage for nearly 20 years, as well as extraordinary harpist and keyboardist, Triona Marshall.

The trappings of fame have not altered The Chieftains’ love of, and loyalty to, their roots — they are as comfortable playing spontaneous Irish sessions as they are headlining a concert at Carnegie Hall. After all these years of making some of the most beautiful music in the world, The Chieftains’ music remains as fresh and relevant as when they first began.

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