The Chieftains and the Rolling Stones both started in 1962, in Dublin and London, respectively. Both were determined to earn a wider audience for their respective genres, although The Chieftains’ ...

Paul McCartney, Madonna, Doc Watson and Luciano Pavarotti have at least one thing in common: They've all collaborated with Irish folk band The Chieftains. The band, credited with helping to revive ...

Like long-lost uncles from the old country, the Chieftains return to the New Jersey area just in time to keynote many a Celtic music fan’s St. Patrick’s Day festivities — even if not all of the ...

Paddy Moloney, the legendary tin whistle player and co-founder of the Chieftains, died Monday. He was 83. The Irish music icon’s passing was confirmed by the Irish Traditional Music Archive. However, ...

Paddy Moloney has the gift of the gab. As soon as the Straight’s phone interview begins with the founder and leader of the Chieftains, Ireland’s official government-appointed music ambassadors, the ...

Six times Grammy winners the Chieftains gave a performance at Valley Performing Arts Center on Feb. 22. Paddy Maloney, the founder, is joined with several musicians to showcase the traditional Irish ...

In this April 2, 2012 photo, Irish musician Paddy Moloney of the Chieftains, holds up a tin whistle at his home in Naples, Fla. Moloney collaborates with musicians, Bon Iver, the Pistol Annies, the ...

"I was 6 years of age," he says, "and my mother bought me what you call a pennywhistle — a tin whistle — for one shilling and nine pence." The Chieftains began in 1962, at a time when rock 'n' roll ...

There aren’t many performers who have weathered the past half-century as well as the Chieftains. After Tony Bennett and Betty White, the pickings grow mighty slim. On Tuesday, the Chieftains brought ...

NAPLES, Fla.NAPLES, Fla. — When Paddy Moloney started considering possible collaborators for The Chieftains’ 50th anniversary album, he knew the kind of artists he didn’t want: Mick Jagger, Sinead ...