Altan Live at Groton Hill

Legendary Celtic band Altan will be live at the Groton Hill Music Center on Friday, January 16 at 8:00pm. 

Altan is celebrating forty years on the road, bringing their native music to world-renowned stages such as Carnegie Hall, the Sydney Opera House, Dublin’s National Concert Hall as well as to the famous Glastonbury Festival, Tradfest Temple Bar in Dublin, and Festival Interceltique de Lorient in Brittany. Altan has long been at the forefront of traditional Irish music, blending the raw energy of their native Donegal-fiddle style with a rare, melodic sensibility. Being the first-ever Irish traditional band signed to a major record label, Virgin Records, in 1995, The Boston Globe named them “The hottest group in the Celtic realm.”

The band’s original members, lead singer and fiddler, Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh, Ciaran Curran on bouzouki and Mark Kelly on guitar are accompanied by accordion player Martin Tourish, who has been recording and touring with the band for over 15 years, and the latest addition to Altan’s lineup, the wonderful young fiddler and singer, Clare Friel, who steeped in the tradition of her Donegal ancestors.