Jackdaw were a Celtic rock

Celtic rock

Celtic rock is a genre of folk rock and a form of Celtic fusion which incorporates Celtic music, instrumentation and themes into a rock music context...

 band from Buffalo, NY

Buffalo, New York

Buffalo is the second most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River across from Fort Erie, Ontario, Buffalo is the seat of Erie County and the principal city of the...

 from 2000-2009. One of the group's members, George Tutuska

George Tutuska

George Tutuska is a former member of the alternative rock band Goo Goo Dolls.He played drums from 1986 to 1995, and parted from the band only a few months before the release of their breakthrough album, A Boy Named Goo due to disputes with long-time friend and singer/guitarist John Rzeznik...

, was a former drummer for the Goo Goo Dolls

Goo Goo Dolls

The Goo Goo Dolls are a Grammy-nominated American rock band formed in 1986 in Buffalo, New York, by vocalist and guitarist John Rzeznik and vocalist and bass guitarist Robby Takac. Since the end of 1994, Mike Malinin has been the band's drummer, a position previously held by George Tutuska...

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The band formed in 2000, when George looking to do something different approached singer/songwriter and Celtic performer Geno McManus about backing him up on his annual "Irish Week" of gigs. After a night of "hanging and drinking" with George and Tim the idea of the band was formed and they started the idea to create a "Brick Throwing" Celtic Rock band, that was "Factory Born" and based on their Irish heritage and industrial South Buffalo area roots. McManus then recruited Tommy Jordan to play Bass (Jordan also came up with the band's name based on a passage from the Frank McCourt memoir Angela's Ashes

Angela's Ashes

Angela's Ashes is a 1996 memoir by the Irish-American author Frank McCourt. The memoir consists of various anecdotes and stories of Frank McCourt's impoverished childhood and early adulthood in Brooklyn, New York and Limerick, Ireland, as well as McCourt's struggles with poverty, his father's...

.), and thus the core band was formed. The songs "Maggie" and "Raise a Glass" were penned during these first rehearsals.
As the core members rehearsed, wrote and performed more, they decided they needed search for additional players to balance the "raw style" with the traditional "celtic sound". It was then that Tim Byrne found, and recruited "multi-instrumentalist" David Moore, and Tommy Jordan recruited long time friend Joe Davies to play violin. In late 2000 McManus left the band.

Mike Jordan, who replaced Geno McManus, performed vocals and played the guitar, left the band in November 2004. The band remained a five-piece group until their breakup in 2009. In 2006, a compilation of their first three albums and EPs entitled Brilliant, Sad & Guilty was released. The two disc album includes interviews, live tracks, and studio outtakes.

Jackdaw lovingly refers to its most devout followers as the "Jacks" and "Jackies"

Jackdaw won Buffalo's Best Rock Band (and on one occasion beating fellow nominee the Goo Goo Dolls

Goo Goo Dolls

The Goo Goo Dolls are a Grammy-nominated American rock band formed in 1986 in Buffalo, New York, by vocalist and guitarist John Rzeznik and vocalist and bass guitarist Robby Takac. Since the end of 1994, Mike Malinin has been the band's drummer, a position previously held by George Tutuska...

), presented by the free publication Artvoice, in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007. Member David A. Moore also won Buffalo's Best Musician, and was nominated for "King of Charisma", as well as "Best Individual Vocalist". The band opened for Dropkick Murphys

Dropkick Murphys

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 at Thursday at the Square

Thursday at the Square

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. In July 2007, the band opened for Pete Best

Pete Best

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 and his band at Club Infinity in Williamsville, NY.

Former members

• Geno McManus (Founding Member):Vocals & Guitars
• Tim Byrne (Founding Member): Guitar, mandolin, banjo, piano, vocals
• Joe Davies: Fiddle
• Tommy Jordan: Bass, backing vocals
• David A. Moore: Accordion, highland bagpipes, uilleann pipes, whistles, concertina, buttonbox, hurdy gurdy, vocals
• George Tutuska
  George Tutuska
  George Tutuska is a former member of the alternative rock band Goo Goo Dolls.He played drums from 1986 to 1995, and parted from the band only a few months before the release of their breakthrough album, A Boy Named Goo due to disputes with long-time friend and singer/guitarist John Rzeznik...
  
  (Founding Member): Drums

Albums

Armed And Legged (2000)

1) Broken Cans 2) Raise a Glass 3) Corner Bar 4) Maggie

5) Black and Tans 6) Drunken Piper/Cork Hill 7) Paddy 8) Out in the Ocean

Jackdaw (2001)

1) Introduction 2) Molly 3) Hit the Floor 4) Billy Brown 5) Pigtail Man 5) Black and Tans

6) Hogjaw 7) Something About Nothing 8) Sore Eyes 9) Pieces 10) Gutterfly

11) Nala 12) Sorry Again 13) Proofrock 14) Mist Covered Mountains/Chi Mi Na Morbheanna / Mise Éire / Labhair An Teanga Ghaeilge 15) Bagpipes at Midnight

Triple Crown (2004)

1) Denied 2) Irish in Me (The Morning Star) 3) Scrapbook 4) Sally Gooden 5) 3 Month Girl (The Triangular Trade) 6) Echuhskech

7) Falling for You 8) Sooner or Later 9) Brown Shoes 10) Cruel 11) The Book (Losing, My Friend) 12) The Cover Band

Brilliant, Sad & Guilty (2006)

Blackgrass (2007)

1) Don't Tell Me Now 2) Everything Seems So Damn Simple 3) Parade 4) Dance 5) Bye Bye Lust 6) Annelise 7) Shiny Black With Rain

8) Shout Out at Me 9) Bombshelle 10) Jamie 11) Galway Girl Galway Girl "Galway Girl" or "The Galway Girl" is a song written by Steve Earle and recorded with Irish musician Sharon Shannon, which was featured on Earle's 2000 album Transcendental Blues.... 12) Spaghetti Western 13) Supersize 14) All My Life

EPs

Whiskey (2001)

• 1) Where is Claire?
• 2) Devil With One Leg
• 3) So Far

Seven (2001)

• 1) Butcher Boy
• 2) Black Cat Luck
• 3) LV82

Compilations

• Paddy Rock Radio Volume 1 - (Something About Nothing)
• Shite'n'Onions Volume 2 - (Hogjaw)
• Bring It Back To Life - (Pigtail Man)