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Altan · Donegal to Tucson

Name: Altan · Donegal to Tucson
Start: 2024-03-15T19:30:00-07:00
End: 2024-03-15T21:30:00-07:00
Location: FOX TUCSON THEATRE

Fox Tucson Theatre

Start Date

March 15 @ 7:30 pm

End Date

March 15 @ 9:30 pm

Altan · Donegal to Tucson 2024
With Celtic Steps Step Dancers and a guest fiddler from Ireland

In the last dozen years, no Irish traditional band has had a wider impact on audiences and music lovers worldwide than Altan.

Altan has moved audiences from Donegal to Tokyo to Seattle with their exquisitely produced award-winning recordings and heartwarming, dynamic live performances. Ranging dynamically from the most sensitive and touching old Irish songs to hard-hitting reels and jigs, Altan is committed to bringing the beauty of traditional music, particularly that of the Donegal fiddlers and singers, to contemporary audiences. Altan believes that Irish traditional music is modern music in every sense, and its growing popularity proves them right.

After three decades of playing on stages worldwide, Altan returned to the hills of Donegal to record their new album, ‘The Gap of Dreams.’ The 13-track album transports the listener back to a time before electricity when folks would gather together in the mists of winter to tell stories, sing songs, and dance into the wee hours of the night. The music lifted the locals’ spirits and elevated them beyond the day’s hardships like famine, conflict, and emigration. This spirit informed the band’s development through their many phases of growth, from a duo performing in pubs to international touring and recording artists.