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With a career that spans forty-five years and forty-three albums, The Chieftains are not only Ireland’s premier musical ambassadors but also the most enduring and influential creative force in establishing the international appeal of Celtic music. Six-time Grammy winners and nineteen-time Grammy nominees, The Chieftains maintain an international touring schedule that has brought them before literally millions of fans on every continent. Their yearly tour schedule has included performances in North America, Europe and Asia and in 2001 they played a tribute performance for rescue workers at Ground Zero of the World Trade Center. Paddy Moloney, the group’s founder and front man, first brought together a group of local musicians in Dublin in 1962, fashioning an authentic instrumental sound that stood in sharp contrast to the slick commercial output of most Irish music at the time. The group’s first four albums, recorded between 1963 and 1974, established their worldwide reputation even as the group continued to perform on a semi-professional basis. In 1975, The Chieftains recorded the soundtrack to Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon, featuring the hit single "Women Of Ireland" and for which they won an Academy Award. Continued extensive touring followed, further establishing them as a major concert attraction and a string of subsequent albums, including such standouts as Bonaparte’s Retreat, Boil The Breakfast Early and Chieftains in China, enhanced their status as Ireland’s premier musical export. In more recent years the Chieftains have been joined in their recording efforts by a cavalcade of many of our greatest Contemporary Musicians, that include Van Morrison, James Galway, Sting, Tom Jones, Ry Cooder, Chet Atkins, Emmylou Harris and Alison Krauss, to name but a few. Jimmy Rankin is long remembered as the leader and chief songwriter for the Rankin Family. He has in recent years embarked on a promising solo career and has now two solo CD’s on EMI to his credit. | |||||||
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