Acclaimed Irish folk music ensemble Altan-known for its dynamic live performances that range from traditional Irish songs to hard hitting reels and jigs-makes its Zankel Hall debut on Friday, March 8 ...

Passim has announced that the acclaimed Celtic music groups Altan and Old Blind Dogs will headline the 23rd annual Boston Celtic Music Festival (BCMFest), taking place January 15-18, 2026 in Cambridge ...

Altan are on the road 30 years, and fiddler Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh is as happy as ever to play their music, even if she’s starting to pass the baton to her daughter, writes Marjorie Brennan. Wed, 21 Mar ...

The St. Patrick’s season usually finds Boston overrun with bands doing a rowdy, rocked-up version of Irish music. Rest assured that Altan, one of Ireland’s finest traditional bands, doesn’t do any of ...

Gleann Nimhe – The Poison Glen – is the first new studio set in six years from one of the finest ‘traditional’ Irish bands. Some songs and tunes are new; whatever their provenance, their treatment is ...

The audience’s rousing standing ovation for traditional Irish music band Altan at Sanders Theatre on March 20th marked the perfect end to a festive St. Patrick’s week in Cambridge—and showed why there ...

Listeners looking for the uniquely driving tune sets that Altan are famous for have plenty to get their teeth into, not least “Buffalo Gals/Leather Britches/Leslie's Reel”, which includes a bracing ...

Altan are without question one of Ireland's great traditional music groups. They talk to RFI about The Gap of Dreams, their 13th studio album, why no two reels are the same, and giving their all ...

"We must be doing something right.’’ That’s Altan lead singer and fiddler Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh, on the phone from Dulles Airport in Washington, in the midst of a tour that will bring the band to the ...

It's fitting that Altan's first album in three years and their 16th since Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh and Frankie Kennedy formed the band in the early 1980s should feature new tunes from the next generation ...