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DESCRIPTION:\n\nHaving celebrated their 25th Anniversary\, Altan begin a ne
 w chapter\nwith a new album released worldwide on Compass Records March 20
 12.\n\nOn the strength of the new album\, they have been booked for a show
  at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall in March 2013.\nOver 25 years of playing 
 together\, Altan have established themselves as one of the most important 
 live acts to play traditional Irish music in Ireland and on the World stag
 e. The Boston Globe has described them as The hottest group in the Celtic 
 realm! Altan have toured all over the USA and Europe. They also enjoy popu
 larity in Japan where they frequently tour and have hosted Altan festivals
  in the middle of Tokyo to thousands of enthusiastic fans.\n\nFounding mem
 bers\, the late Frankie Kennedy and his partner Mairéadad Ní M Mhaonaigh\, lea
 d singer and fiddler with the band\, began their musical career whilst tea
 ching in a school in Malahide in North County Dublin\, playing music for f
 un and enjoyment not knowing that it would end up as their main way of lif
 e and bring them all over the world! Frankie and Mairead started out by pl
 aying with and meeting older musicians from the Donegal tradition\, like J
 ohn Doherty\, Con Cassidy\, James Byrne\, Dinny McLaughlin\,Vincent Campbe
 ll and Mairéadads own father Francie\, who shared their music with them and 
 most importantly\, their friendship. The pair learned their music\, tried 
 to emulate their style and listened to their general philosophy of life\, 
 which\, in retrospect was just as important as the music. Later it would b
 e Francie who translated the beautiful Gaelic songs into English on all of
  the Altan recordings to date. Francie was also responsible for the transl
 ations of Barbara Allen and In the Sweet Bye and Bye on two projects with 
 the legendary Dolly Parton which Altan were involved with. Frankie and Mai
 read made their first forays into live shows in the USA in 1985\, releasin
 g two albums together as a duo\; 1983s Ceol Aduaidh (Music of the North) a
 nd the self-titled Altan in 1987.\n\nAltan as a band began as a quartet wi
 th Frankie on flute\, Mairéadad on fiddle and songs\, joined by Ciaran Curra
 n on bouzouki and Mark Kelly and Dáitithí S Sproule sharing the role of guitar
  player\, Mark touring with the band in Europe and Dáitithí i in the States. L
 ater Paul OShaughnessy on fiddle joined\, augmenting and driving the sound
  of the band to new levels on Green Linnet recordings Horse with a Heart (
 1989)\,  The Red Crow (1990)\, Harvest Storm (1991) and  Island Angel (199
 3). The Red Crow became the first of three Altan albums to win the prestig
 ious Celtic/British Isles Album of the Year award from the National Associ
 ation of Independent Record Distributors and Manufacturers (NAIRD).
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SUMMARY:Altan
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