Best known for being one of the first bands to make Irish traditional music popular around the world, The Chieftains are a Grammy-winning Irish musical group founded in 1962. The band's name came from the book "Death of a Chieftain" by Irish author John Montague. They were a success virtually from the beginning, quickly becoming popular as both a performing and recording act. Their first four albums were originally only available from the Claddagh label in Ireland, but were later picked up by Island Records for release in England and America in 1976, after the group had achieved international renown. The group had their big breakthrough in America when they provided the music for Stanley Kubrick's 1975 movie, "Barry Lyndon." A track from the film, "Women of Ireland," began getting heavy rotation on progressive FM rock stations, and even managed to get onto the play lists of some Top 40 stations. The group has won six Grammy Awards and have been nominated eighteen times. They have won an Emmy and were given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the UK's BBC Radio 2. In 1979, they played a concert for an audience of more than one million people and Pope John Paul II. In 1983, they were invited by the Chinese Government to perform with the Chinese Broadcasting Art Group in a concert on the Great Wall of China, the first western musical group to do so. They were also the first group to perform in the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.; invited to do so by Senator Edward Kennedy and former Speaker of the House, Tip O'Neill.

Albums:

• The Bells of Dublin (1991)
• Another Country (1992)
• An Irish Evening (1992)
• The Celtic Harp: A Tribute To Edward Bunting (1993)
• The Long Black Veil (1995)
• Film Cuts (1996)
• Santiago (1996)
• Long Journey Home (1998)
• Fire in the Kitchen (1998)
• Silent Night: A Christmas in Rome (1998)
• Tears of Stone (1999)
• Water From the Well (2000)
• The Wide World Over (2002)
• Down the Old Plank Road: The Nashville Sessions (2002)
• Further Down the Old Plank Road (2003)
• Live From Dublin: A Tribute To Derek Bell (2005)
• The Essential Chieftains (2006)
• San Patricio (2010) (with Ry Cooder)

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