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January-March String of
Concert Dates
Marks 31 Years of
Touring In North America.
January 7, 2005 (New York, NY) - Irish music ambassadors The
Chieftains celebrate the life and legacy of one of its most beloved
members this February 22 with the release of Live From Dublin: A
Tribute To Derek Bell (RCA Victor).
Recorded live at the Ireland’s premier performing venues, the Gaiety
Theater and National Concert Hall, in the spring and summer of 2004,
Live From Dublin honors the late, lamented Derek Bell, the longtime
band-mate who passed away unexpectedly in 2002 after recording the
group’s 2002 Grammy nominated album, Down The Old Plank Road.
Live From Dublin features some of Bell’s favorite songs, drawing on
an array of global influences that has become a Chieftains hallmark
since their inception. It’s a musical approach that takes Celtic
music as a reference point to explore an encyclopedic array of
sounds and styles from around the world. Songs include the opening
medley of traditional Irish reels, a Galician medley drawing on the
Irish-Spanish connection, the “bluegrass-greengrass” collaborative
“Down The Old Plank Road,” and “Ottawa Valley Dance,” which features
the Pilatzke brothers and showcasing a Celtic-Canadian influence.
One of the most touching moments on the CD is the performance of
“Derek’s Tune,” a haunting melody composed by Chieftains founder
Paddy Moloney.
“For one year [after his death] we left an empty chair on the stage
in his honor,” Moloney recounts. He was a consummate, classically
trained musician, equally adept at harp, oboe, hammer dulcimer,
keyboards and variety of other instruments. This album is both a way
of honoring his memory and continuing with the music that meant so
much to him.”
The Chieftains will also embark on a 2005 North American tour, which
begins on January 13 in Salt Lake City and runs through March 20 in
Milwaukee. In breaking with a longstanding tradition of performing
in New York City on St. Patrick’s Day (March 17), this time band
will instead perform in Toronto.
The tour includes original members Paddy Moloney (Uilleann pipes,
tin whistle), Matt Molloy (flute), Sean Keane (fiddle) and Kevin
Conneff (bodhran, vocals). They will be joined by guest artists,
including Sony BMG Spain recording artist Carlos Nunez (Gaita,
Recorder, whistle, Bombard) from Galicia, Spain, who first recorded
and toured with the Chieftains in 1990 at age 17. Nunez was
considered the seventh member of the Chieftains during the making of
album Santiago, which landed the group their 5th Grammy Award. He
also performed with the Chieftains on the soundtrack of the Charlton
Heston film, Treasure Island. Nunez and his Spanish trio of
Francisco Alvarez (mandolin) and Jorge Nunez (percussion) will
perform with the Chieftains to explore the music of Galicia, the
Celtic section of Spain.
Other performers include the notable Irish harpist Triona Marshall,
the young Canadian acrobatic dancing team of brothers’ Jon and
Nathan Pilatzke, along with Cara Butler and Donny Golden, who will
treat audiences to traditional Irish dancing. Other surprise guests
will appear in selected cities, to be announced.
With a career that spans forty-two years and forty-one 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 eighteen-time Grammy nominees, The Chieftains
maintain an international touring schedule that has brought them
before literally millions of fans.
Live From Dublin:
A Tribute To Derek Bell
(RCA Victor) released on February 22, 2005
Review & Press Contact:
Anita Daly
Daly Communications
217 East 86th Street #151
NYC, NY 10028
212-772-0852
AnitaDaly@yahoo.com
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THE ESSENTIAL CHIEFTAINS
RELEASED FEBRUARY 21, 2006
2 CDs, 35 tracks, spanning from 4th LP (in 1965) through 2002’s
Down The Old Plank Road – guests along the way:
Jackson Browne, Ry Cooder, the Corrs, Elvis Costello, Marianne
Faithfull, Nanci Griffith, Béla Fleck, James Galway, Emmylou Harris,
Alison Kraus, the McGarrigles, Van Morrison, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band,
Carlos Núñez, Ricky Skaggs, Sting, and others!
Scholarly liner notes written by Nashville’s Robert K. Oermann
THE ESSENTIAL CHIEFTAINS
(RCA Victor/Legacy/SonyBMG),
the
first two-disc, 35-track anthology to draw from their output on
Columbia in the 1970s, Claddagh in the ’80s, and RCA Victor in the
’90s and ’00s, as personally selected by original founding member
Paddy Moloney, with over a dozen guest stars ranging from James
Galway, the Corrs, Carlos Núñez, Ry Cooder, Emmylou Harris, and Béla
Fleck, to Sting, Elvis Costello, Marianne Faithfull, Van Morrison,
Alison Kraus, Jackson Browne, the McGarrigles, and many others;
compiled by Jerry Rappaport and Paddy Moloney, with liner notes
written by Nashville’s Robert K. Oermann.
Order
The Chieftain CDs
Online at Amazon
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Live From Dublin
Tribute To Derek Bell |
Down the Old
Plank Road
The
Nashville Sessions |
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Further Down the
Old Plank Road |
The Best Of
The Chieftains |
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The Essential Chieftains
2-CD Set |
The Wide World Over
A 40 Year Celebration |
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