The Chieftains are an Irish traditional music band, founded in 1963. His first year as a band, they released their first album with the same name as the group, The Chieftains. They are still acting.
This group plays Celtic music.
Its initial membership was Paddy Moloney (uilleann pipes), Martin Fay (fiddle and bones, traditional percussion instrument), Seán Potts (whistle) and David Fallon (bodhrán). Now its members are different. Paddy Moloney, Seán Keane, Matt Molloy, Kevin Conneff, Martin Fay and Derek Bell.
The band currently consists of Shane Macwogan, James Fearnley Spider Stacy Jeremy Finer Andrew Ranken Phil Chevron Terry Woods Darryl Hunt. It also had other artists in it, not currently, for example, Cait O'Riordan, Joe Strummer, Jamie Clarke Dave Coulter and James McNally.
Web page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chieftains
http://www.thechieftains.com/default.asp