Santiago

Santiago is The Chieftains' 20th studio album, released through RCA Records in 1996. It is dedicated to traditional music of Galicia, the region in the northwest of Spain, and also to the adaptation of Galician emigrants' musical folklore in Latin American music, for example, in the music of Mexico and Cuba. As Paddy Moloney noted in the CD’s booklet, Galicia is “the world’s most undiscovered Celtic country”.

The album features collaborations with Carlos Núñez, Linda Ronstadt, Los Lobos, Ry Cooder, Eliot Fisk, Richard Egües, Pancho Amat, Kepa Junkera, Júlio Pereira, (among others). In 1997, the album earned the group the Grammy Award for Best World Music Album.