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Biography
refimprove|date=April 2009Infobox musical artist | | name = Gaelic Storm| image =| caption =| background = group_or_band| alias =| origin = Santa Monica, California , United States|USA | genre = Celtic Music|Celtic , Celtic rock | years_active = 1996–present| label = Lost Again Records OmTown Music | associated_acts =| website = http://www.gaelicstorm.com/|www.gaelicstorm.com| current_members = Patrick Murphy Steve Twigger Ryan Lacey Peter Purvis Jessie Burns | past_members = Shasha Zhang Bob Banerjee Tom Brown Samantha Hunt Kathleen Keane Ellery Klein Shep Lonsdale Steve Wehmeyer Brian Walsh Gaelic Storm is an American Celtic music|Celtic band. Their music includes traditional Music of Ireland|Irish music , Scottish music , and original tunes in both the Celtic and Celtic rock genres. Their most recent album, Cabbage (Gaelic Storm album)|Cabbage , was released on August 3, 2010. On March 13, 2012 Gaelic Storm announced their 9th album titled Chicken Boxer due for release on July 31, 2012.cite web |url= http://www.gaelicstorm.com/articles.html? n_id=465 |title=Gaelic Storm – Chicken Boxer|work=Gaelic Storm.com |accessdate=2012-03-13
History
Gaelic Storm's origins can be traced back to 1996, when Patrick Murphy and Steve Wehmeyer joined with Steve Twigger and Uillean piper Brian Walsh to perform at O'Brien's Irish Pub and Restaurant in Santa Monica, California|Santa Monica , California , of which Murphy was the manager. This led to a number of pub performances for the next year.
In 1997, Gaelic Storm appeared in the film Titanic (1997 film)|Titanic as the steerage band, performing "An Irish Party in Third Class". This catapulted them into touring, where they were met with extreme success and popularity. They have toured throughout the United States and Canada , in the United Kingdom , France , and Japan .
To this date, Gaelic Storm tours aggressively, and plays over 125 dates a year. It has also put out eight albums since its inception, including the compilation album Special Reserve (Gaelic Storm album)|Special Reserve . The band is notable for its energetic rendering of traditional Irish music and Scottish traditional music , and for its albums which repeatedly top the Billboard world music charts.Citation needed|date=February 2007 Gaelic Storm's fifth album, How Are We Getting Home? , was released in August 2004 and debuted at #3 on the Billboard (magazine)|Billboard World Music Charts, #10 on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart and re-entered the September 2005 World Albums Chart at #3. cite web |title=Gaelic Storm |url= http://gaelicstorm.musiccitynetworks.com/index.htm? id=5737& sid=5431 |accessdate=2007-11-13 The band's sixth album Bring Yer Wellies was released on July 25, 2006 and debuted at #2 on the Billboard World Chart, #16 on the Internet Sales Chart and #31 on the Independent Album Chart. The next album of Gaelic Storm was released on July 8, 2008, titled "What's the Rumpus? " released by their own label, Lost Again Records. It reached #1 on the Billboard World Chart.
Over its history, the band has replaced its fiddle player a few times, its drummer once, and added Great Highland Bagpipe|Highland , Uilleann pipes|Uilleann , and DegerPipes|Deger (electronic) bagpipes to its instrumentation.
In January 2006 the band released its first DVD titled "Gaelic Storm: Live In Chicago". The show was filmed live at the House of Blues in Chicago, Illinois|Chicago .
A Simlish version of the song, Scalliwag, from the album Bring Yer Wellies was recorded and featured on the World music channel in the expansion pack, The Sims 2: Bon Voyage , for the popular PC Game, The Sims 2 .
Gaelic Storm also includes: Ryan Lacey on drums and world percussion (graduated twice from the Los Angeles Music Academy, once for hands and once for sticks), Pete Purvis of Merrickville, Ontario on uilleann pipes, tin whistle, deger pipes and highland pipes (a Grade 1 piper who toured with award winning pipe bands including the Braemar Pipe Band and played at 2000 Sydney Olympics) and the newest member of the band Jessie Burns on fiddle (originally from Suffolk, England, now living in Colorado)."
Band members
Patrick Murphy ( accordion , Spoon (musical instrument)|spoons , bodhrán , lead vocals )
Steve Twigger ( guitar , bouzouki , mandolin , lead vocals )
Ryan Lacey ( djembe , doumbek , surdo , cajón , vocals , various percussion)
Peter Purvis ( Great Highland Bagpipe|Highland bagpipes , Uillean pipes , DegerPipes , Tin whistle|whistle )
