WGBH Music: The Chieftains "Opening Medley" Live from WGBH

[@WillesdenHerald]

Glorious. Paddy Moloney, our loss is Heaven's gain.

[@Alun49]

Well said.

[@ajaugenti1976]

Amen!

[@shaynewheeler9249]

Me and my sister are going on board Titanic 2 in 3 class

[@shaynewheeler9249]

Me and my sister going on board Titanic 2 in 3 class

[@shaynewheeler9249]

Disease in third class titanic 2

[@lindabratsch9091]

Heartbroken to hear of Paddy Maloney’s passing yesterday…💔

[@uzm2589]

What? He died?! There’s no way he died.. Google says he’s 92, that’s not even that old at least almost close to 99 years ( I mean, sure some people die at the age of 92, I mean the second queen of England died at like 96)

[@shaynewheeler9249]

Respect to the chieftains

[@jimconnaughton9580]

Pegín Leitermhore

[@jackdaw7781]

RIP Paddy Moloney. Thanks for all the music.

[@Kitiwake]

God bless us

[@shaynewheeler9249]

😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@SuperSentinel1]

This news brought me to tears, wonderful man and musician. May you rest in peace Paddy, thoughts with your family & friends.

[@fionafromireland1054]

Thank you Paddy, for bringing brightness and happiness to our lives, you will be missed. But your light will shine forever.

[@davidhoward1950]

I first saw the chieftains and James Galway in Ireland on St Patrick's day 1987,and I have been their biggest fan ever since.i at one time 35 of their lps on tape and I have many favorite tunes of theirs.but like all good things they can't last forever! Dave Howard

[@shaynewheeler9249]

😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@annoravetz5908]

My sister got us tickets at the Fine Arts Center at Umass for St. Patrick’s Day performance. Unforgettable!

[@Genjo_N_Mojave]

Happy Saint Patrick's Day today 2021

[@JJoseRDuran]

United and Free Ireland !!!! From Galiza, the southern celtic ancient land, strong hugs !! ❤

[@yoshisuketanaka8944]

I was so shocked by the sudden death of Maestro in music, Mr. Paddy Moloney. Condolence. Thank you so much for the greatest music performances...

[@shaynewheeler9249]

Ra Stargate swamp mummy

[@lindahenderson9622]

RIP Paddy... Thank you for the music and all you have done for Irish Traditional Music

[@ellenchavez2043]

I had the pleasure of seeing The Chieftains many times on their tours to Chicago. Paddy was generally the spokesperson, giving background on the music and instruments.

[@Timo-15]

Paddy Moloney always loved to *bring the music* to everyone....everywhere. *RIP Paddy.*

[@75smurfette]

Farewell Paddy Moloney. Slan Abhaile. Thank you ever so much for being amongst those for bringing the beauty and richness of our culture to the world, as a mixed-race person of partial Irish descent, your band's music was so influential in paving the way to my appreciation and understanding of my place amongst the Irish diaspora.Thank you, I'm deeply and forever grateful.

[@galiyan06]

All our love from Australia. Paddy Maloney you will always be remembered. Rest now in peace with the music.

[@skipdowning2328]

This is magic on so many levels. When the dancers come out, it's just over the top!

[@shaynewheeler9249]

😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@daviddavidfulcher]

Rest In Peace Paddy.......And thanks for Decades of collaborations with musicians from all of our World.

[@lilthommodt]

Forever shall the chieftains reign

[@KaizenSteelDrums]

Heck yeah they will thanks to technology. Can you imagine all the musicians since the beginning of time that never got recorded? It truly is a golden era of humanity right now. I'm so thankful to be here in this time.

[@PVPLeonard]

Brian Crehan Like beauty being in the eye of the beholder, music is in the ear of the listener! If you don't like it, don't listen. Judge not less you yourself be judged. Let us hear your music so we can likewise judge you!!!!

[@MrNitomore]

Daniel Thompson u

[@pigalleycatemanresu7321]

@@briancrehan9757 We'll see how well you play when you're 80 years old.

[@theesweetscience2084]

Well said.

[@davidhoward1950]

Talk about shaking a leg!excellent step dance by those brothers!I saw jean Butler dance to this tune,called chattering magpie.glad to see her sister cara do this dance!wonderful musical paddy and the chieftains left our world!!this music will never die or become out style!God bless you all who hear this music and like.the chieftains awoke in me a love of my roots and love of Irish culture!!David Howard

[@jordijuanmarti6222]

Godspeed Paddy Moloney and thanks for your music.

[@patrickdaly5068]

Boy how I would have loved to be in the audience that night. The step dancing is amazing to make the music even more exciting.

[@MrDavil43]

Put a smile on my face and banished thoughts of pandemics for a little while!

[@iamfantastic.iamgreat3649]

BANISH MISFORTUNE!

[@briane5706]

Visiting this upload in Oct 2024. Still wonderful and with Irish dancing as well!

[@jeff61177]

The March of the King of Laois., I play this on my GHB's all the time. Reminds me of hiking in the White Mountains with my wife.

[@Canuckmom128]

I always loved it when Paddy would do the vocal “chants” during a piece. I could never get over how such a strong, low sound came from a fairly diminutive man. What an amazing, gifted composer and musician. He could make those Uilleann pipes sing like a bird. If you’ve never seen the PBS Series “The Long Journey Home - The Irish in America” I highly recommend it. Some episodes are up on KZbin. Paddy, the Chieftains and Guests (Sinead O’Connor, Elvis Costello, etc) did all the music, which is sweeping and heartbreaking. RIP Paddy, and Thank you for bringing the soul of Ireland around the world, and sharing it with all of us. 🇮🇪🇨🇦

[@vaughan446]

The song that starts at around 3:00 minutes is the Chieftains upbeat version of The Nine Points of Roguery (made popular by Boys of the Lough - but not sure if they composed it). Jon Pilatzke is the Chieftains' lead fiddle player who also comes forward to dance as the reel progresses. The other guy dancing is his brother Nathan. Both brothers are part of the Canadian band Step Crew, created by Jon and Nathan, and Cara Butler, who joins them dancing. Cara is the younger sister of Jean Butler (of Riverdance fame). Now you know 🙂.

[@fairdinkum9454]

Ottawa valley boys!

[@philruane5910]

👍👍

[@WR105Prof]

Who is the other fiddle player seated? The blonde woman?

[@patrickdaly5068]

@@WR105ProfWhen you said blond I had to take a look thinking it might be Natalie McMaster, but it isn’t her. I did see her play with The Chieftains on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno years ago. I’ve seen her in concert and she’s awesome, and it was cool seeing a Scottish style fiddler from Cape Breton playing with a great Irish band on TV!

[@WR105Prof]

@@patrickdaly5068 Thanks. I did a little more research and discovered she is a Nashville musician named Deanie Richardson.

[@jec0435]

I think I was smiling the entire time while watching that. Bravo!

[@PaulaOBrien-rs4po]

Good Morning James...Thanks NYPD

[@daveharrison8286]

I can thank the Chieftains for a life long love of Celtic music

[@portu9610]

RIP Paddy, thank you from Basque Country! ❤

[@lisahartman1205]

The Chieftains helped me fall in love Irish traditional Music and I play my flutes along with them on my collections of there cds Love you guys TWEET

[@clarebannerman]

I've been in love with Irish music since I was born...You may like some of ancient Irish Trad on my channel...

[@michaeldaly1600]

I have also loved the Chieftain's, especially when there are Irish step dancers involved🙂

[@itsaguinness]

Try my best to do the same with a bodhran

[@homeagain9692]

Oh My God, I haven't had this big of a smile in over a year! Thanks you for posting this.

[@RyanMacNeil]

Lovely! 55 years playing together this year! Congrats guys!

[@douglashadden2172]

Sorry to be a bit pedantic, but none of those musicians have been playing together for 55 years. Paddy Moloney is the only original "Chieftain" there. That particular line up, I would think is less than 10 years old. Still making great music though.

[@tomgreene6579]

@@douglashadden2172 Were Sean Keane and Mick Tubridy there and another fiddler Martin......? there?

[@douglashadden2172]

@@tomgreene6579 Sorry, I'm not understanding you here. "Were Sean Keane and Mick Tubridy" where ? "Chieftains" first LP record was recorded in 1963, with Paddy Moloney, Michael Tubridy, Martin Fay [ fiddle ], Sean Potts [ whistle ] and David Fallon [ bodhran ], if that's what you meant.

[@tomgreene6579]

@@douglashadden2172 You have answered my query thanks...can put a face on those fellows now. Did not know any of them , but may have met Sean Potts at Fleadh in Thurles...he was I think in the company of Vincent Broderick , but that's over 60 years ago now.

[@markmusic1808]

Saw them in State College PA. The humorous remarks between songs were as entertaining as the music. Made for a great night

[@theesweetscience2084]

Wow I went there too!! To the school AND thee show.

[@rjc199]

Do you remember if they were in State College at least twice?

[@shaynewheeler9249]

Rainbow 🌈🌈🌈🌈 in Irish bagpipes

[@Frithgar]

Wonderful piece, and you can see the passion in it all. But most of all I love the first guy dancing, the one with the tie. He's brilliant, really puts his all into it, flawless with it, but at the same time manages to look like every dad, ever, all rolled into one and dancing, makes me smile every time I see him!

[@pigalleycatemanresu7321]

Great to see Paddy Maloney still leading this band, with this new lineup. I played fiddle in a band that opened for them on a US tour in '79. I remember the grand Sean Keane, and the sweet airs of Martin Fay, the two fiddlers at that time. The Chieftains, the Boys of the Lough, and the Bothy band were the popular and influential Celtic bands at the time. Go see Paddy and others jamming with, or for, Frank Zappa, shortly before his death. The Chieftains have had a remarkable career and played with an impressive list of artists. Brilliant.

[@willbergie55]

Very proud to say I visited Ireland in April 2004, and love this music.

[@brianbyrne3003]

The door is always open Bill.

[@jamie2186]

Very nice of you from Ireland

[@jongill7]

Born and raised in Ashington. Sang that song most nights to my 3 kids as a lullaby, and my son has carried on the tradition with his two girls. Beautiful performance

[@UKpossum]

Oh bl**dy mnarvellous!! I'd have LOVED to have been there. Thank you guys and Lass :) :)

[@thesparklingunicorn8543]

Reminds me of the music id listen to with my grandad god rest his soul when i was a child as he would have the traditional music playing in the house

[@ianfromnh3652]

"A Celtic Soujourn" on wgbh was the beginning of my traditional Irish journey

[@philipcroft2236]

God bless sean o'riada, without him the Chieftains would never have been.

[@michaelslocum9537]

Ah! The Nine Points Of Roguery! Such a great name for a tune.

[@Ellie3625]

What a grand treat to see and listen to the Chieftains. Would have loved to see them in person. Did have the great joy of seeing the step dancers in person at Brian's Celtic Sojourn. WOW!!!!!

[@Pete-z6e]

Seen them in New Zealand twice , fantastic! This folks is Irish music.

[@cecilsmith1725]

The sound recording is top notch excellant

[@keithhow5901]

My favourite band of all time

[@mrsdennany]

My husband and I enjoyed your concert in Kalamazoo very much! I don't know how it's possible that you are celebrating 57 years. You certainly aren't old enough.

[@johnhiram1207]

This is very happy music. What an amazing sound. Also the step dancing is awesome. I love when they sing. Their music will live fore ever.

[@donhanlon7121]

Listening to this makes me proud to be Irish👌☘️🎵🇮🇪🎶🎶

[@jamie2186]

Watch Eurovision 1994 interlude and you’ll nearly be overcome with Irish nationalism

[@thewolfstar]

I love you so much. My son when he was just a kid turned me on to the Chieftains. :)

[@maximezuliani835]

0:00 March of the Kings of Laois 1:51 Peggy Lettermore 3:07 The Nine Points Of Roguery 5:07 The Chattering Magpie

[@sumatibates5887]

Thanks!

[@rapier1954]

Another great who has passed on and whose talent so outshines the crop of so-called Country Stars of today it is unfathomable.

[@michelleong2762]

Matt Molloy's flute sound is to die for

[@carleneroberts5670]

I think you mean Paddy °°

[@rhonatolchard4552]

Paddy Maloney plays pipes. Matt Molloy is the flute player.

[@stephenkamens587]

"SLANGAH" Back in the mid-1990's I was invited to one of my Co-Worker's Wedding in Malibu, Ca. Her Husband-To-Be is Irish, and he was Close Friend's of the "Chieften's" and they were invited, too. What a wounderful night we All had, "Slangah" to them All.

[@chriswhitham2140]

Absolutely brilliant. These guys were amongst my favourites fifty years ago, and the music's still fresh! They had it all - pipes, fiddles, harp, bodhrán, harp - and the dancers! I've included this in a playlist "Classic British Folk" and, before anyone complains, I mean "British" in it's broadest sense, as it is to include Brittany, all the British Isles and north-western Spain. They share a musical culture from before England became England.

[@jamie2186]

Your definitely not from Ireland 🤣

[@chriswhitham2140]

No - Lancashire, but I emigrated and am living in Scotland now @@jamie2186

[@williammack3018]

One of my all time favorite pieces of music.

[@andrealewis3638]

beautiful

[@patrickodonnell4109]

Rousing!!!! They give it their ALL every time they perform. Always fresh and exciting. Thank you Chieftains for decades of top shelf music 🎶

[@chrissmith7259]

A great band, with great music.

[@knockanemore]

Always a joy to look at and listen to.

[@ajaugenti1976]

RIP Paddy Moloney, you are in God's kingdom! 👑

[@ronwhite9117]

My favorite band...AWESOME!!!

[@Tony-Diga]

How the heck can someone dislike this????(even if you are deaf,blind and soulless you have no reason to do it.......)

[@williamrobinson7435]

Paddy Maloney will be sadly missed. A great pipes player and ambassador for the traditional music of Ireland.

[@2021kyoto]

Paddy Maloney was a great Celtic musician,,but never played the real Bagpipes.He used a smaller version played by hand!!!

[@ThePhiloaussie08]

Fantastic Music........Thanks for sharing, best wishes P x

[@briancrehan9757]

It's amazing how paddy had the same teacher as Willy Clancy, Liam O'Flynn and Gay Mckeon yet those three are such phenomenal pipers...

[@rhonatolchard4552]

Irish traditional music has lost a giant. A chieftain in every respect.

[@mgatrag]

In Galiza we shout to pipers, GAITEIRO!! as an honorific. May you rest in glory, GAITEIRO!!!!!! kzbin.info/www/bejne/fp_dkKOFhLOke7s

[@leahflower9924]

that violin playing was intense you can see it on that dude's face lol

[@jamesbradshaw3389]

In the lands that I came from many Chieftains have rained and ruled for thousands of years but they could not compete with the king of all Chieftans Paddy Moloney and his fellow band member Chieftains past and present and his band of fellow musicians,, dancers, singers, poets and storytellers. Paddy has now left town and is playing in a new club in a place called Kingdom Hall which is in the first town you pass through after you drive through Heaven's gate, Paddys gone but his songs, stories and music will last forevermore

[@airyfairycelt]

The times over the decades I have been skipping and dancing to the many, many times of watching them play beautiful music a few feet from me and entranced all the time of it.

[@paulcarolan2475]

Hello from Royal hill Tara county Meath Ireland☺i play set bones and carry them everywhere and bodhran ☺ the Irish post have a set stamps of chieftains☺

[@grobin1949]

The 2 male dancers are brothers - the Pilatzke brothers Jon and Nathan. Jon is also a fiddler. Both are championship step dancers from Canada. Love the Chieftains and the Pilatzke brothers - and all the others in this video!

[@europhile2658]

from Newfoundland, Canada?

[@margotmccann3429]

@@europhile2658 Ottawa Valley

[@StudioSamSmith]

Thank you so much for your knowledge- off on a KZbin rabbit hole (god willing!)

[@gordonstuart5800]

Fantastic you all.

[@lerouxgs]

With some Canadian step-dancing, completes the medley!

[@pgm3]

RIP Derek, Martin, Sean, Paddy. Sean was one of teachers, and that's the point --these gentlemen (and many others) ensured this music would forever be, by teaching it, by playing it. What a gift!

[@WGBHMusic]

WGBH Music has passed 100,000+ views! Thanks for watching and big thanks to everyone who has subscribed!!

[@gregmead2967]

Wow. Just.... wow. How can this have only 2.4 k likes?

[@gaiaakatheearth5604]

what a great performance!

[@moser1274]

This is simply amazing...!

[@JuliaPonomarenko]

Wow! Wow! Wow! The same three dancers some years ago! I love you guys! You have helped me so much)

[@james09995]

Givin' it socks!!!!!!!! Brilliant!

[@m.j.f.c.4794]

nuestras raíces Celtas , nunca hay que olvidarlas es un estilo de vida es conservar nuestra cultura.

[@stephenkamens587]

In the mid-'90's, my wife and I attended a wedding for one my Nurse's, that i supervise, in Malibu, Ca. Her husband, being Irish, was a close friend to the "Chieftains" they were invited, too and Stayed and Played, the whole night and kept us "yanks" quite happy. It was also the same night, that the "World Cup Soccer" Match, between Ireland and Mexico was played in Los Angeles and Ireland Won.

[@knockanemore]

Wonderful to listen to and look at.

[@andrewwilson4730]

All that's great about our country, we will be United in all one day

[@smiley2emc]

Love them thankyou for posting this Happy Saint Patricks Day 2018

[@ichengicheng]

Lovely!

[@benjamintrefny4107]

more chieftains pls

[@unseelie63]

Ahh,that's the good stuff!!

[@bhmagnet5072]

just brilliant, makes you feel good inside

[@diegoteruel7069]

popular music always open ours souls, dear Paddy.

[@paulziolo9241]

Rest in peace, greatest of the Bards!

[@donaldstuart2278]

Love this, what a great band.RIP Paddy.

[@noalic]

Vos morceaux nous portent dans une belle ballade ! Merci

[@ct4883]

So beautiful.

[@tomdamon7208]

God bless you Paddy ! Heaven needs another piper !

[@georgealderson4424]

The angels are sure to be dancing tonight Tom!

[@craigmiller1870]

These guys are so great they can parody themselves and no one would know except me...Wait a second, these guys

[@j.b.2893]

Wonderful, wonderful.. RIP Paddy.

[@maciblobmicsurlift492]

Fantastic!

[@AmetsSorgin]

The Chieftains are the very best of all.