Chart-topping Celtic band Gaelic Storm will perform Wednesday at Walker

It’s hard to imagine a band just coming into its own after 20 years of success, but that’s exactly what makes Gaelic Storm a true anomaly.

This multinational Celtic juggernaut grows stronger with each live performance, so after two decades and more than 2,000 shows, it’s now a force to be reckoned with.

With their latest release, “Go Climb a Tree,” their music has never sounded more representative of themselves as musicians and as live performers.

The band attributes its continued success to the diversity of its fans. Country music folks adore their storytelling, bluegrass fans love their instrumentals; Celtic fans love their devotion to tradition, rockers simply relish the passion with which they play their instruments.

Gaelic Storm tours internationally over 200 days a year. One of those stops will be in Chattanooga on Wednesday night, Oct. 17, in Walker Theatre.

The band’s dedication to live shows dates back to the mid-1990s, when they began as a pub band in Santa Monica, California. After their discovery at the pub, the musicians appeared in the blockbuster film “Titanic,” in which they performed “Irish Party in Third Class.”

That launched a career that eventually found them topping the Billboard World Chart six times, making appearances at mainstream music festivals and regularly headlining the largest Irish festivals across the country.

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