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• Bad Haggis
  Bad Haggis
  Bad Haggis is a Celtic band with roots in Scottish music. The American group is led by piper Eric Rigler, who has played on dozens of movie soundtracks...
  
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  Eric Rigler
  Eric Rigler is an American player of the Uilleann pipes, Great Highland Bagpipes, and tin whistle. He plays on his own and with the band Bad Haggis, and has been featured on a number of movie soundtracks. He has been described as "the most recorded bagpiper of all time"...
  
  
• Bagas Degol
• Baka Beyond
  Baka Beyond
  Baka Beyond is a world music group formed in 1992 with members from a wide variety of backgrounds and cultures, fusing Celtic and other western music styles with traditional Baka music from Cameroon.-Biography:...
  
  
• Barrage
• Bodega
  Bodega (band)
  Bodega is a Scottish band based in Glasgow, formed in March 2005. Its members met while they were studying together at the National Centre of Excellence in Traditional Music in Plockton, Scotland, from which they all graduated...
  
  
• Bongshang
  Bongshang
  Bongshang are a band from Shetland who fuse traditional Shetland and folk styles with rock, funk, electronica and contemporary production techniques...
  
  
• Beltaine's Fire
  Beltaine's Fire
  Beltaine's Fire is a five-member Hip Hop/Folk-Rock/Celtic Fusion collective from the San Francisco Bay Area in California fronted by Emcee Lynx. Their music has evolved considerably over the years...
  
  
• Martyn Bennett
  Martyn Bennett
  Martyn Bennett was a Scottish musician who was born in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada...
  
  
• Blaggards
  Blaggards
  Blaggards are a four-piece Celtic rock band from Houston, Texas. The Houston Press described them as "Houston's only Celtic metal band" and "H-town's heir to the emerald throne of Phil Lynott and Shane MacGowan".- History :...
  
  
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• Bùrach

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• Capercaillie
  Capercaillie (band)
  Capercaillie is a Scottish folk band, founded in the 1980s by Donald Shaw and fronted by Karen Matheson. They have seen four of their albums placed in the UK Albums Chart, and continue to perform and record to the present day.-History:...
  
  
• Catya Maré (songwriter, violinist)
• Ceredwen
  Ceredwen
  Ceredwen is a celtic band comprising Andrew Fryer and Renee Gray. Their debut album, "Ô'r Mabinogi, " , featured in the Billboard charts for 3 months and won 3 NAV awards...
  
  
• The Corrs
  The Corrs
  The Corrs are an Irish band which combine pop rock with traditional Celtic folk music. The brother and sisters are from Dundalk, Ireland. The group consists of the Corr siblings: Andrea ; Sharon ; Caroline ; and Jim .The Corrs came to international prominence with their performance at the...
  
  
• Croft No. 5
  Croft No. 5
  Croft No. 5 were a Scottish world music–Celtic fusion band, composed of accordionist John Somerville, guitarist Spad Reid, drummer Paul Jennings, bassist Duncan Lyall, fiddler Innes Watson, and on whistles. The band was started in 1998 with original bassist and the band was soon joined by...
  
  
• Cruachan
  Cruachan (band)
  Cruachan [kroo-a-khawn] is a Celtic metal band from Dublin, Ireland that has been active since the 1990s. They have been acclaimed as having "gone the greatest lengths of anyone in their attempts to expand" the genre of folk metal. They are recognised as one of the founders of the genre of folk metal...
  
  
• Clannad
  Clannad
  Clannad are an Irish musical group, from Gaoth Dobhair, County Donegal. Their music has been variously described as bordering on folk and folk rock, Irish, Celtic and New Age, often incorporating elements of an even broader spectrum of smooth jazz and Gregorian chant...
  
  

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• Dagda
  Dagda (band)
  Dagda is an Irish New Age band. It comprises Reg Keating and Phillip O'Rely. The band is named after Dagda, an Irish god. They released their first album Hibernia: The Story of Ireland - OWL in 1997....
  
  
• Donal Lunny Coolfin
• The Dreaming
• Dropkick Murphys
  Dropkick Murphys
  Dropkick Murphys are an Irish-American punk rock band formed in Quincy, Massachusetts in 1996. The band was initially signed to independent punk record label Hellcat Records, releasing five albums for the label, and making a name for themselves locally through constant playing and yearly St....
  
  
• The Dysfunktionals
• Dronezone

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• La Bottine Souriante
  La Bottine Souriante
  La Bottine Souriante is a folk band from Quebec specialising in traditional Québécois music, often with a modern twist.Formed in 1976, they have toured extensively through North America and Europe. As well as the traditional accordion, fiddle, guitar, piano and double bass, the band added a...
  
  
• Leahy
  Leahy
  Leahy is the name of a Canadian folk music group. The eight band members, all from the Leahy family of eleven siblings, are from Lakefield, Ontario and have been actively touring Canada and internationally since the early 1980s when they were known as The Leahy Family...
  
  
• Lordryk
• The Levellers
  The Levellers (band)
  The Levellers are an English rock band, founded in 1988 and based in Brighton, England. Their musical style is said to be influenced by punk and traditional English music.-1988-1990:...
  
  
• Lucid Druid
  Lucid Druid
  Lucid Druid is a Celtic fusion band that formed in Clearwater, Florida in 2003. The band self-proclaims their sound as "Traditional Celtic Music of the early 21st century," and "Eclectic World-Fusion Music," describing their multi-faceted and jam-induced music....
  
  
• Lúnasa
  Lúnasa (band)
  -History:Named after Lughnasadh, an ancient Irish harvest festival, Lúnasa was started when Seán Smyth, Trevor Hutchinson, and Donogh Hennessy briefly toured through Scandinavia in 1996. Upon their return to Ireland, they teamed up with Michael McGoldrick and John McSherry to record a few tracks...
  
  

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• Manau
  Manau
  Manau French hip hop group formed in 1998, known for their fusing of traditional Celtic melodies with modern hip hop beats. It was initially composed of Martial Tricoche, Cédric Soubiron, and R.V. Lardic until R.V.'s departure and replacement by Gregor Gandon. Although the band is currently based...
  
  
• MacTalla Mor Band
• Marxman
  Marxman
  Marxman were a four-piece Marxist hip-hop group with two MCs formed in London in 1989.Their lyrics expounded socialism and an end to economic and social injustice...
  
  
• Alyth McCormack
• Michael McGoldrick
  Michael McGoldrick
  Michael McGoldrick is a flute and tin whistle player. He also plays the Uilleann pipes and low whistle. He is well known for his ability to skate switch and regular with the same level of ability.-Bands:...
  
  
• Mill a h-Uile Rud
  Mill a h-Uile Rud
  Mill a h-Uile Rud is a Seattle-based band who sing in Scots Gaelic.-The band:The name translates as 'Destroy Everything' though the band only uses the Gaelic original...
  
  
• Loreena McKennitt
  Loreena McKennitt
  Loreena Isabel Irene McKennitt, CM, OM, is a Canadian singer, composer, harpist, accordionist and pianist who writes, records and performs world music with Celtic and Middle Eastern themes. McKennitt is known for her refined, clear soprano vocals...
  
  
• Ashley MacIsaac
  Ashley MacIsaac
  Ashley Dwayne MacIsaac is a Canadian professional fiddler from Cape Breton Island.His album Hi™ How Are You Today?, featuring the hit single "Sleepy Maggie", with vocals in Scottish Gaelic by Mary Jane Lamond was released in 1995...
  
  
• Natalie MacMaster
  Natalie MacMaster
  Natalie MacMaster, CM is an award-winning fiddler from the rural community of Troy in Inverness County, Nova Scotia, Canada who plays Cape Breton fiddle music....
  
  
• Moondragon
  Moondragon
  Moondragon is a fictional character in Marvel Comics Universe. A vastly powerful telepath, master martial artist, minor telekinetic, and highly skilled geneticist, Moondragon's most notable characteristics are her shaved head, superiority complex, and gruelling elite excellence in virtually every...
  
  
• The Mordekkers
• Mouth Music
  Mouth Music (band)
  Mouth Music is a Scottish inspired musical project founded in 1988, whose combination of traditional Gaelic songs and music with contemporary instrumental and technological settings led them to international fame in the early 1990s....
  
  
• Mudmen
  Mudmen
  Mudmen are a Canadian rock band that formed in Toronto, Ontario in 2000. Initially comprising vocalist Zoy Nicoles, guitarist Lonny Knapp, bassist Tommy Skilton, drummer Ryan McCaffrey and bagpipe-playing brothers Robby and Sandy Campbell...
  
  

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• Paul Mounsey
  Paul Mounsey
  Paul Mounsey is a composer, arranger and producer from Scotland.He lived for over 20 years in Brazil. A graduate of Trinity College, London, where he studied with Richard Arnell, he has written for film, television, theatre, advertising and also for the Latin American pop market...
  
  
• Peatbog Faeries
  Peatbog Faeries
  The Peatbog Faeries are a largely instrumental Celtic fusion band. Formed in 1991, they are based in Dunvegan on the Isle of Skye, Scotland.Their music embodies many styles and influences, including folk, electronica, rock and jazz, - but their main influence is traditional celtic music...
  
  
• Pipedown
  Pipedown
  Pipedown was a hardcore punk band from Northern California with radical leftist lyrics. Starting in Grass Valley, California in 1997, their lyrics often remind of eco-anarchism, especially since they recommended books like the Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and its Future and Deep...
  
  
• The Pogues
  The Pogues
  The Pogues are a Celtic punk band, formed in 1982 and fronted by Shane MacGowan. The band reached international prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. MacGowan left the band in 1991 due to drinking problems but the band continued first with Joe Strummer and then with Spider Stacy on vocals before...
  
  
• Primordial
  Primordial (band)
  Primordial is an extreme metal band from Skerries, County Dublin, Ireland. It was formed in 1987 by Pól MacAmlaigh and Ciarán MacUiliam . Their sound melds black metal with Irish folk music.-Biography:...
  
  
• Peter McGowan (Musician)

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• Rare Air
  Rare Air
  Rare Air, formerly Na Cabarfeidh, was a Canadian band that played an eccentric mix of instruments, including bagpipes, flutes, whistles, bombardes, bass guitar, and keyboards. The group, founded in the late 1970s as a celtic folk music band, was originally led by bagpipe virtuosos Grier Coppins and...
  
  
• The Real Mckenzies
• Rock Salt & Nails
  Rock Salt & Nails (band)
  The Rock Salt & Nails are a Celtic fusion band based in the Shetland, Scotland. The band formed in 1992.In 2009, the band wrote and released a single dedicated to the Scottish tennis player Andy Murray, called Volley Highway.- Line-up :2003 line-up:...
  
  
• Ron Korb
  Ron Korb
  Ron Korb is a Canadian flautist, composer, songwriter, and record producer, from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is also known as Dragon Flute in China, Thunder Blessing in Taiwan and Prince of Flutes in Japan-Musical style:Korb is known for writing culturally diverse...
  
  
• Runrig
  Runrig
  Runrig are a Scottish Celtic rock group formed in Skye, in 1973 under the name 'The Run Rig Dance Band'. Since its inception, the band's line-up has included songwriters Rory Macdonald and Calum Macdonald. The current line-up also includes longtime members Malcolm Jones, Iain Bayne, and more...
  
  

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• Salsa Celtica
  Salsa Celtica
  Salsa Celtica are a Scottish musical group famed for playing a form of music that is a fusion of salsa music with traditional Scottish instruments, including elements of folk and jazz.-History:...
  
  
• Mark Saul
  Mark Saul
  Mark Saul is a Celtic fusion musician from Melbourne, Australia. He plays Highland Bagpipes, wooden flute, and tin whistle, in addition to creating the electronic aspects of his music....
  
  
• Seelyhoo
  Seelyhoo
  Seelyhoo were a Scottish Folk band based in Edinburgh, with band members originally from Orkney.Seelyhoo are fronted by songwriter, vocalist and tin whistle player Fiona MacKenzie -- with a voice not unlike Capercaillie's Karen Matheson...
  
  
• Seven Nations
  Seven Nations
  Seven Nations is a Celtic rock band that formed in New York City in 1993. The name comes from the seven Celtic nations, including Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Brittany, Cornwall, the Isle of Man and Galicia...
  
  
• Shooglenifty
  Shooglenifty
  Shooglenifty are an Edinburgh-based six-piece Celtic fusion band that tours internationally. The band blends Scottish traditional music with influences ranging from electronica to alternative rock...
  
  
• Skelpin
  Skelpin
  Skelpin is an Irish folk music group based in San Diego, California. They perform a fusion of Irish Music and Spanish Flamenco, with Middle-Eastern percussion and have toured with this Irish Fusion globally....
  
  
• Skyedance
  Skyedance
  Skyedance is a Celtic fusion group, founded by fiddler Alasdair Fraser in 1996.-Discography:# Way Out to Hope Street # Labyrinth # Live in Spain -Band members:* Alasdair Fraser * Mick Linden...
  
  
• Slainte Mhath
  Slainte Mhath
  Slainte Mhath were a celtic fusion band from Cape Breton Island. The band features traditional instruments associated with Celtic music, intertwined with elements of dance, funk, and electronic music. Slainte Mhath have toured extensively throughout North America, Europe and Asia...
  
  
• Spirit of the West
  Spirit of the West
  Spirit of the West are a Canadian folk rock band, who were popular on the Canadian folk music scene in the 1980s before evolving a blend of hard rock, Britpop, and Celtic folk influences which made them one of Canada's most successful alternative rock acts in the 1990s.-Early years:The band began...
  
  
• Gary Stadler
  Gary Stadler
  Gary Stadler is an American New Age pianist, composer, songwriter and producer, specializing in contemporary Celtic-influenced themes and atmospheres. Stadler's six albums generally focus on imaginative concepts loosely based in Celtic mythology, especially stories of the realm of Faerie...
  
  
• Alan Stivell
  Alan Stivell
  Alan Stivell is a Breton musician and singer, recording artist and master of the celtic harp who from the early 1970s revived global interest in the Celtic harp and Celtic music as part of world music.- Background: learning Breton music and culture :Alan was born in the Auvergnat town of Riom...
  
  
• Stone Row
  Stone row
  A stone row , is a linear arrangement of upright, parallel megalithic standing stones set at intervals along a common axis or series of axes, usually dating from the later Neolithic or Bronze Age. Rows may be individual or grouped, and three or more stones aligned can constitute a stone row...