IrelandCeltic Thunder / Origin In 2007 producer Sharon Browne filmed the first-ever Celtic Thunder show at the Helix in Dublin, Ireland. The concept was to feature a group of men from Ireland and Scotland, who range in age from 21 to 42, and feature songs that celebrate a common Celtic heritage.

2007Celtic Thunder / Active from Since the original group's formation in 2007, Celtic Thunder has released twelve albums as well as ten live performances on DVD, three of which were split into two releases.

They were very popular. Celtic Thunder started touring North America, and regularly released new material. Billboard named the group Top World Album Artist in 2008, 2009 and 2011. Such was their popularity, that the group opened the 2009 Saint Patrick's Day Parade in NYC.

Laura MurphyDamian McGintyKeith HarkinGeorge DonaldsonRyan KellyColm Keegan Celtic Thunder/Singers The shared musical chemistry of Celtic Thunder's lead vocalists Ryan Kelly, Damian McGinty, Neil Byrne, and Emmet Cahill, gives the show its compelling power, while each singer adds their distinctive voice and charm to this musical journey, creating a harmonious blend that appeals to a broad spectrum of tastes.

Celtic Thunder is a popular multigenerational Irish vocal ensemble and stage show combining traditional Irish folk roots with more contemporary sounds.

“So to do an Irish music show afterwards for me was kind of an amalgamation of a few different Irish cultures that I love, so it's been brilliant. And that was one of the things that I asked on my first show [with Celtic Thunder]: to be able to sing a song in Irish.”

Founded following an 1887 initiative driven by Irish Marist, Brother Walfrid, in order to feed the poor and hungry in Glasgow's East End, Celtic Football Club was born amid a boom in the still relatively new sport of Association Football.

Glasgow, Scotland Celtic was founded by Brother Walfrid in 1887 at a meeting in St. Mary's Church hall in the Calton district of Glasgow, Scotland. The club played its first match, against Rangers, the following year, winning 5–2. In 1892 Celtic moved to Celtic Park (Parkhead), where they currently play.

Celtic Thunder is a popular multigenerational Irish vocal ensemble and stage show combining traditional Irish folk roots with more contemporary sounds.

These styles are known because of the importance of Irish and Scottish people in the English speaking world, especially in the United States, where they had a profound impact on American music, particularly bluegrass and country music.

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In music, the term Celtic typically refers to a traditional type of folk music found in areas such as Scotland, Ireland, Britain, Spain, and France. These types of folk music are derived from traditions passed down by the ancient Celtic people that inhabited these lands.

In English, the word bard usually denotes a Celtic poet, but the filídh were in fact more aristocratic and enjoyed greater privileges than the bards. Their poetry is nonetheless called bardic, since they were entrusted with an oral tradition, the full knowledge of the tribe, which predated Christianity.

Irish, Manx and Scottish Gaelic form the Goidelic languages, while Welsh, Cornish and Breton are Brittonic. All of these are Insular Celtic languages, since Breton, the only living Celtic language spoken in continental Europe, is descended from the language of settlers from Britain.

Indo-European language family Celtic languages, also spelled Keltic, branch of the Indo-European language family, spoken throughout much of Western Europe in Roman and pre-Roman times and currently known chiefly in the British Isles and in the Brittany peninsula of northwestern France.

Others view it as a name coined by Greeks; among them linguist Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel, who suggests it meant "the tall ones". In the first century BC, Roman leader Julius Caesar reported that the Gauls called themselves 'Celts', Latin: Celtae, in their own tongue.