THE CELTIC SOCIAL CLUB
10TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR

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THE CELTIC SOCIAL CLUB is celebrating a decade of existence this year with their
10TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR !!!

During those ten years, they have succeeded in asserting a sound, a style, and a
name. With four studio albums and three live albums on the counter; travelling
across stages, festivals, and continents, the seven Franco-Irish musicians continue
to refine their elegant and daring re-reading of the Celtic music tradition, shaken
with great blows of rock energy, pop melody and folk magic... Quite a journey for a
band that was only to be a « one-shot » creation at the « Vieilles Charrues festival »,
in July 2014...

The energy, the desire and the freshness will therefore have been the strongest for this
gathering of adventurers, rallied around the name « THE CELTIC SOCIAL CLUB »

and a simple artistic program: propelling traditional Celtic music (Brittany, Ireland, Scotland, As-
turia) by mixing it with rock, pop, folk and groove. Organized like a stage commando, the «

CELTIC » plays a lot in Europe, flies to Asia, and then the United States, (including an em-
blematic show in Central Park, New York). They then set out to conquer the United King-
dom, even though they knew that the English were not inclined to indulge in "French"

groups, with their fourth album, DANCING OR DYING? (2021). Discovered by the emble-
matic Janice Long from BBC, the singles « Home » and « Over The Line » were then regu-
larly played on BBC 2, the biggest radio station in Europe. The « CELTIC » obtained a full-
page interview in the culture section of THE TIMES newspaper, a rare event for a French group in England, and also appeared on the cover of ROLLING STONE magazine in France!!!

If The Pogues and The Clash have often been cited in an attempt to summarize this ener-
getic and ambitious musical “mash-up”, the « CELTIC » has little by little found its marks and its stability, to the point of making references and comparisons obsolete today.

The BAND continues the DANCING ON DYING TOUR, culminating in an appearance on the main stage of the « Vieilles Charrues festival » on July 14, 2023, and is preparing new ma- terial with its new singer from Dublin, the talented Taylor Byrne, who has already proven himself on several singles (The Auld Triangle, Far Away From Here, Suddenly...). Re-eases which prove that Manu Masko, Goulven Hamel, Ronan Le Bars, Pierre Stephan, Céline Rivaud, Mathieu Péqueriau and Richard Puaud have ambition to spare and a formi-dable stage commitment to assert their position as a challenger!!!