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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The distance between the windswept northwest coast of Ireland and the mountains of Appalachia is shorter than you might think, musically at least. When Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh—lead vocalist, fiddler, and ...

"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 ...