25th Anniversary Celebration. Altan, one of the most important live acts to play traditional Irish music in Ireland and on the World stage, celebrate 25 years on the road, in 2010. To mark this anniversary they have recorded an album featuring a collection of songs from the past 25 years ‘with the R.T.E. Concert Orchestra’.
Respected by their contemporaries, they have performed and recorded with The Chieftains, Dolly Parton, Bonnie Raitt, Alison Krauss to name but a few. In 2003 they won the award for Best Group at the BBC2 Folk Awards.
The band has gained platinum status in Ireland, with record sales, and has also earned numerous awards in the industry. Three Altan albums have won the prestigious “Celtic/British Isles Album Of The Year” from the National Association Of Independent Record Distributors and Manufacturers (NAIRD), confirming them as one of the most popular bands playing traditional folk music in the world.


1) Is the Big Man Within?/Tilly Finn’s Reel
2) Citi na gCumann
3) The Roseville
4) I Wish My Love was a Red Red Rose
5) Donal agus Morag
6) Mo Ghaoil
7) Bog an Lochain /The Margaree Reel - The Humours Of Westport
8) A Tune For Frankie
9) Molly na gCuach Ni Chuilleannain
10) Soilse na Nollag
11 ) As I Roved Out
12) The Sunset
13) Gleanntain Ghlas Ghaoth Dobhair
14) Comb Your Hair and Curl It /Gweebarra Bridge
15) Dun Do Shuil

25th Anniversary Celebration. Altan, one of the most important live acts to play traditional Irish music in Ireland and on the World stage, celebrate 25 years on the road, in 2010. To mark this anniversary they have recorded an album featuring a collection of songs from the past 25 years ‘with the R.T.E. Concert Orchestra’.
Respected by their contemporaries, they have performed and recorded with The Chieftains, Dolly Parton, Bonnie Raitt, Alison Krauss to name but a few. In 2003 they won the award for Best Group at the BBC2 Folk Awards.
The band has gained platinum status in Ireland, with record sales, and has also earned numerous awards in the industry. Three Altan albums have won the prestigious “Celtic/British Isles Album Of The Year” from the National Association Of Independent Record Distributors and Manufacturers (NAIRD), confirming them as one of the most popular bands playing traditional folk music in the world.

Lineup

Altan
The Rte Concert Orchestra