| Jackdaw were a Celtic rock band from Buffalo, NY from 2000-2009. One of the group's members, George Tutuska, was a former drummer for the Goo Goo Dolls. 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.), 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. |
