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Celtic Punk
Stylistic origins: Punk Rock - Electric folk - Traditional Celtic music
Cultural origins: 1980s London Punk rock scene
Typical instruments: Vocals - Guitar - Bass - Drums - Bagpipes - Tin whistle - Fiddle -- Banjo - Mandolin - Accordion
Mainstream popularity: Underground during most of its history. Recently becoming more visible to the mainstream due to bands like Dropkick Murphys and Flogging Molly
Subgenres
Gaelic Punk
Regional scenes
London - Ireland - Scotland - Chicago - Boston - Los Angeles
Other topics
Early bands: The Pogues - The Men They Couldn't Hang - Roaring Jack    Influential bands: The Clash - The Dubliners - Christy Moore Supergenres: Celtic Fusion - Celtic rock - Folk punk
Celtic punk (also known as Paddybeat, Celtcore, Jig punk, or Rock and Reel) is a music genre typically associated with Irish punks or punks from the Irish diaspora; although other Celtic nationalities, such as Scottish, Manx and Welsh people are also represented.

The typical Celtic punk band includes a rock rhythm section accompanying more traditional instruments such as bagpipes, fiddle, tin whistle, accordion, mandolin, and banjo. Like Celtic rock, Celtic punk is a subgenre of Celtic fusion, which includes all amalgamations of celtic music with other genres. Celtic punk is also considered part of the broader folk punk genre. Many Celtic punk bands emerge from predominantly Irish communities in cities which are historically centers of mass Irish immigration, such as Glasgow, London, Melbourne, Boston, Los Angeles, New York and Chicago. As a result, prevalent themes in Celtic punk songs include Ireland, Irish Republicanism, the Irish diaspora, drinking, and working class pride.

History

The origins of Celtic punk lie in both the British folk rock bands of the 1960s and 70s who first electrified the music of Great Britain and Ireland and more directly in folk bands such as The Dubliners and The Clancy Brothers. The Skids were possibly the first UK punk band to add a strong folk element, as they did on their 1981 album Joy. Around this same time in London, Shane MacGowan and Spider Stacy began experimenting with a sound that would become The Pogues,[1] whose early sets included a mixture of traditional folk songs and originals written in a traditional style - all performed with a Punk attitude and energy. Other early Celtic folk-punk bands included The Men They Couldn't Hang, Nyah Fearties, and Australia's Roaring Jack.

More recently, Celtic punk has gained popularity with the success of bands such as Dropkick Murphys and Flogging Molly. Three media outlets of Celtic punk include Paddy Rock Radio the webzine Shite 'n' Onions, which releases compilation CDs, and a podcast called The Scallywag Show With Barnacle Brian.

The idea of Celtic punk has also evolved into Gaelic punk with mainly Scottish-based bands who actually sing in the Celtic language of Scottish Gaelic. Foremost of these bands is Oi Polloi from Edinburgh and Mill a h-Uile Rud who hail from Seattle.

Notable bands

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Seattle's Mill a h-Uile Rud play hardcore punk sung entirely in Scots Gaelic

Footnotes

1. ^ Scanlon, A. The Lost Decade. Omnibus Press, 1988

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''The term "Electric folk" is often used synonymously with Folk rock. This page documents a more specific use

Definition

Electric folk is a genre that plays British and Celtic Traditional music in a Rock music style.
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Celtic music is a term utilized by artists, record companies, music stores and music magazines to describe a broad grouping of musical genres that evolved out of the folk musical traditions of the Celtic peoples of Northern Europe.
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A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. In principle anything that, produces sound, and can somehow be controlled by a person playing it, can serve as a musical instrument.
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A singer is a musician who uses their voice to produce music. Often the singer is accompanied by musicians and instruments. While many people sing for pleasure, vocal skill is usually a combination of innate talent and professional training.
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The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six strings, but four, seven, eight, ten, and twelve string guitars also exist.
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The electric bass guitar (or "electric bass") is a bass stringed instrument played with the fingers by plucking, slapping, popping or using a pick. The bass is typically similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a larger body, a longer neck and scale
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The Drum kit

1 Bass drum | 2 Floor tom | 3 Snare | 4 Toms | 5 Hi-hat | 6 Crash cymbal and Ride cymbal
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Splash cymbal | Swish cymbal |
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Bagpipes are a class of musical instrument, aerophones using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. The term is equally correct in the singular or plural, although pipers most commonly talk of "pipes" and "the bagpipe.
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The tin whistle, also called the tinwhistle, whistle, pennywhistle, or Irish whistle, is a simple six-holed woodwind instrument. The Irish words for the instrument are feadóg ('whistle' or 'flute') or feadóg stáin ('tin whistle');
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fiddle refers to a violin when used in folk music. It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music. Fiddle playing, or fiddling, is a style of music.

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For other uses, see Banjo (disambiguation)


The banjo is a stringed instrument developed by enslaved Africans in the United States, adapted from several African instruments.
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mandolin is a musical instrument which is plucked, strummed or a combination of both. It is descended from the mandora. The most common design as originated in Naples, Italy has eight metal strings in four pairs (courses) that are plucked with a plectrum.
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accordion is a musical instrument of the handheld bellows-driven free reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as squeezeboxes.

The accordion is played by compression and expansion of a bellows, which generates air flow across reeds; a keyboard or buttons control which
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Dropkick Murphys are a Celtic punk band formed in Quincy, Massachusetts, USA.[1] First playing together in the basement of a friend's barbershop, they blended Oi!, Irish music, and hardcore.
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Flogging Molly is a seven-piece Irish American punk band, that formed in Los Angeles and is currently signed under SideOneDummy Records.

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Prior to forming Flogging Molly, Dave King was the vocalist for Fastway, a late 80s/early 90s heavy metal band, featuring
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Scottish Gaelic Punk is a subgenre of punk rock featuring bands that sing some or all of their music in Scottish Gaelic. The Gaelic punk scene is, in part, a reaction against the beer-addled shallowness of much of Celtic punk, and an affirmation of the value of minority languages
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Northwest of continental Europe with Great Britain to the east.

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Motto
Nemo me impune lacessit   (Latin)
"No one provokes me with impunity"
"Cha togar m'fhearg gun dioladh"   
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The Pogues are a band of mixed Irish and English background, playing traditional Irish folk with influences from the punk rock movement. They reached international prominence in the 1980s and 1990s before breaking up in 1996.
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The Men They Couldn't Hang (TMTCH) are a British rock band whose mixture of folk and punk is not dissimilar to that of The Pogues (in fact founder member Shanne Bradley was an original female punk artist and founder of Shane MacGowan's first band, The Nipple Erectors).
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The Clash were an English punk rock band, active from 1976 to 1986, and part of the original wave of UK punk rock in the late 1970s. Although a punk rock band, the band experimented with reggae, funk, New Wave, dub, and rockabilly in their music[1][2].
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For the book by James Joyce, see Dubliners.


The Dubliners are an Irish folk band founded in 1962 (see 1962 in music), making them one of the oldest bands that are still performing music presently.

Formation

The Dubliners formed in 1962.
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Christopher Andrew 'Christy' Moore (born on May 7, 1945, in Newbridge, County Kildare, in the Republic of Ireland) is a very popular Irish folk singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is well known as one of the founding members of Planxty.
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Celtic fusion is an umbrella term for modern music which incorporates traditional Celtic influences, or Celtic music which incorporates modern music. It is thus essentially a syncretic musical tradition which borrows freely from the musical traditions of all the Celtic
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