Founding Chieftain Paddy Moloney, who plays Uilleann pipes and tin whistles, remains the band’s leader 52 years after it began. O’Riada, who died at age 40 in 1971, had reintroduced the world to the ...

Paddy Moloney, the Irish folk musician and leader of The Chieftains, has died at the age of 83. A cause of death was not disclosed. In this April 2, 2012 photo, Irish musician Paddy Moloney of the ...

The Chieftains brought their 40th-anniversary show into the Paramount Theater Saturday night, delivering two hours of traditional Irish music with some other things thrown in for good measure.

During the recording of The Chieftains’ 2010 album “San Patricio,” Paddy Maloney found some uncanny similarities between Mexican and Irish music traditions. It wasn’t just the sounds of traditional ...

MIAMI (Billboard) - The musical border between Latin and Irish culture has been crossed often by artists from both sides of the divide. But the connection has rarely, if ever, been brought to light as ...

Paddy Moloney, the Irish folk musician and leader of The Chieftains, has died at the age of 83. A cause of death was not disclosed. Moloney “made an enormous contribution to Irish traditional music, ...