Altan

Altan is a common masculine Turkish given name used also as surname and a Mongolian given name. Altan means "golden" in Mongolian and "red dawn" in Turkic. The related word "Altın" is also Turkish for "golden" and a common Turkish surname.

Given name

  • Altan Aksoy, a Turkish football player
  • Altan Erkekli, a Turkish theatre and film actor
  • Altan Erol, a Turkish professional basketball player
  • Altan Debter, an early, now lost history of the Mongols
  • Altan Khan, a Mongol ruler (1507–1582)
  • Altan Khan of the Khotgoid, a succession of rulers of north-western Mongolia in the 17th century
  • Altan Öymen, a Turkish journalist, author and former politician
  • Altan Telgey, a Mongol earth goddess
  • Altan Tobchi, a 17th-century Mongolian chronicle written by Guush Luvsandanzan
  • Altan Urag, a Mongolian folk rock band
  • Altan Frantz, a sophomore at Allegheny College

    • Surname

  • Ahmet Altan (born 1950), Turkish journalist and author
  • Çetin Altan (1927-2015), Turkish writer, journalist, and former member of parliament
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    Altan (disambiguation)

    Altan is a surname and given name both in Turkish and Mongolian.

    Altan may also refer to:

  • Altan (band), an Irish folk and traditional music group
  • Altan (album), the second album by the above band
  • Altan Jalab, a village in Afghanistan
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    Altan (band)

    Altan are an Irish folk music band formed in County Donegal in 1987 by lead vocalist Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh and her husband the late Frankie Kennedy (1955-1994) . They brought Donegal's rich collection of Irish language songs and instrumental styles to audiences around the world, and they remain the world's foremost Irish traditional group with over a million records sold. They were the first traditional group to be signed to a major label when they signed with Virgin Records in 1994. Altan have established a large following in Ireland, UK, Europe, United States, Canada and even in Japan. They have worked with a wide variety of well-known musicians including Dolly Parton, Enya, The Chieftains, Bonnie Raitt and Alison Krauss.

    Origin

    As a 18-year-old young student and musician from Belfast, Frankie Kennedy used to travel to Gweedore, County Donegal on his summer holidays, learning Irish and playing traditional Irish music on Irish flute and tin whistle. There he met native 14-year-old Irish-speaker and musician Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh, the daughter of famed musician Proinsias Ó Maonaigh from Gweedore and the two fell in love with each other but Ní Mhaonaigh being very young, an innocent friendship began. When she was 15, she was allowed to go to dances under her brother Gearóid Ó Maonaigh's watchful eye, and gradually Frankie Kennedy and Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh became a couple. They both took jobs as trainee teachers at St. Patrick's College in Dublin. In 1979, the two musicians made their recording debut as accompanists for the well-known Belfast singer and Gaelic enthusiast Albert Fry on his self-titled debut album. (In total, Ní Mhaonaigh and Kennedy would feature on the first three albums of Albert Fry.) Two years later, in 1981, Ní Mhaonaigh and Kennedy graduated from college and married when Mairéad was 21.

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    Podcasts:

    Altan

    ALBUMS

    Gleann Nimhe – The Poison Glen

    Released 2012

    25th Anniversary Celebration

    Released 2010

    Local Ground

    Released 2005

    The Best of Altan: The Songs

    Released 2003

    The Blue Idol

    Released 2002

    Once Again: 1987 - 1993

    Released 2000

    Altan's Finest

    Released 2000

    Another Sky

    Released 2000

    Best of 1987 - 1993

    Released 1999

    Collection

    Released 1998

    The Best of Altan

    Released 1997

    Blackwater

    Released 1996

    The First Ten Years: 1986 / 1995

    Released 1995

    Island Angel

    Released 1993

    Harvest Storm

    Released 1992

    The Red Crow

    Released 1990

    Horse With a Heart

    Released 1989

    Essential: The Very Best of Altan

    Runaway Sunday

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    Horse With a Heart

    by: Altan

    One morning in springtime as day was a-dawning
    Bright Phoebus had risen from over the lea
    I spied a fair maiden as homeward she wandered
    From herding her flocks on the hills of Glenshee
    I stood in amazement, says I, "Pretty fair maid
    If you will come down to St. John's Town with me
    There's ne'er been a lady set foot in my castle
    There's ne'er been a lady dressed grander than thee"
    A coach and six horses to go at your bidding
    And all men that speak shall say "ma'am unto thee
    Fine servants to serve you and go at your bidding
    I'll make you my bride, my sweet lass of Glenshee
    "Oh what do I care for your castles and coaches?
    And what do I care for your gay grandeury?
    I'd rather be home at my cot, at my spinning
    Or herding my flocks on the hills of Glenshee"
    "Away with such nonsense and get up beside me
    E'er summer comes on my sweet bride you will be
    And then in my arms I will gently caress thee"
    'Twas then she consented, I took her with me
    Seven years have rolled on since we were united
    There's many's a change, but there's no change on me
    And my love, she's as fair as that morn on the mountain
    When I plucked me a wild rose on the hills of Glenshee




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