Celtic Thunder

Artist Bio

Celtic Thunder has been hailed as BILLBOARD’s Top World Music Artist, along with Top World Music Imprint and Top World Album of in 2008, 2009, 2011, 2015 and 2016. The Celtic Thunder Official YouTube channel, “Thunder Tube” has received over 200,191,012 views and 270,000 subscribers since its inception in 2008. Their monthly newsletter ‘The Celtic Times’ have a readership of 1.2 million viewers, and they have over 628,461 likes and 876,189 total follows on Facebook.

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.

The resulting show included an eclectic mix of songs ranging from the traditional to international hits and some original pieces along the way. The current cast of Celtic Thunder is made up of diverse performers, Ryan Kelly, Neil Byrne, Emmet Cahill, and special guest artist Damian McGinty.

Damian was one of the original members of Celtic Thunder who left the show in 2011 to compete in the first season of the hit show “The Glee Project”, which he subsequently won. He then joined the cast of the hit show Glee and has been pursuing his solo career ever since.

The members of Celtic Thunder are each a powerhouse in both their solo and ensemble songs. Ably backed by the dynamic Celtic Thunder Band, their shows are known for the use of dramatic effects of lighting and choreography as well as a stage set resembling an ancient stone pathway suggestive of those referenced in Celtic lore.

By the end of 2019 Celtic Thunder will have toured the US and Canada, coast to coast, eleven times, Australia four times performing nearly 800 shows to date to well over a million fans. Celtic Thunder has also undertaken 2 Entertainment Cruises in the Caribbean, each one transporting over 4,000 fans on a 4-day musical extravaganza.