Summary

THE MUSICAL GROUP THE CHIEFTAINS CELEBRATE THEIR 40TH ANNIVERSARY WITH A NEW ALBUM THE WIDE WORLD OVER

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 225346
Story Slug Chieftains - 40th - Anniversary - MUSIC
Location NONE
Format VOSOT
Date 03/11/2002
Archive Time 5:51
TRT 2:00
Supers Paddy Moloney, The Chieftains
Video Description CHIEFTAINS PERFORMING THE WABASH CANNONBALL, MOLONEY SOT, CHIEFTAINS PERFORMING THE ROCKY ROAD TO DUBLIN
Description THE MUSICAL GROUP THE CHIEFTAINS CELEBRATE THEIR 40TH ANNIVERSARY WITH A NEW ALBUM THE WIDE WORLD OVER
Script THE CHIEFTAINS, A BAND KNOWN FOR THEIR DISTINCTIVE CELTIC SOUND, CELEBRATES THEIR 40-TH ANNIVERSARY WITH THE RELEASE OF ITS 39-TH ALBUM THE NEW CD IS A RETROSPECTIVE FILLED WITH A COLLECTION OF ALL-STAR GUESTS AMONG THE GUESTS ARE: THE ROLLING STONES, ELVIS COSTELLO, STING, JONI MITCHELL, AND ZIGGY MARLEY THE CD IS TITLED WIDE WORLD OVER THOUGH YOU MAY NOT FIND THE GROUP PERFORMING ON MTV, FOR THE PAST 40 YEARS THEY HAVE TOURED THE WORLD PLAYING IN THE BIGGEST AUDITORIUMS AND USUALLY IN FRONT OF SELL-OUT CROWDS THEY WERE THE FIRST BAND TO PLAY ON THE GREAT WALL IN CHINA AND HAVE APPEARED ON SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE AND NBC'S THE TODAY SHOW PIPER PADDY MOLONEY FOUNDED THE BAND IN 1962 AND HAD THIS TO SAY ABOUT THE BAND'S LONGEVITY (SOT - [:38] We'll for me the The Chieftains 40 years a miracle come through I had this great idea that this group, this music, this great folk art of ours to spread the gospel right around the world that it was this music besides the music that you might of heard, like the songs they compose here, mostly over here, the tear jerkers I called them sometimes That was this great music like the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Macon had done a wonderful job for the ballads, the Irish ballads I just felt that the Irish music deserved something great and big to be played in the big auditoriums throughout the world I certainly didn't ever think it would come to where it has come to today THE CHIEFTAINS CD WIDE WORLD OVER HAS JUST ARRIVED IN MUSIC STORES recap
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