Jackie Daly plays polkas from north Cork on the button accordion.
Button accordion player Jackie Daly who also plays the concertina is from Kanturk in north Cork. Hailing from a musical family he took up the accordion as a child and learned tunes from local musicians who performed at crossroads dances.
In the mid 1970s he became a professional musician and teamed up with Westmeath fiddler Séamus Creagh. Their performances and album 'Jackie Daly and Séamus Creagh’ are credited with generating a wider interest in the music of Sliabh Luachra.
He joined folk music group De Dannan in the late 1970s later becoming a member of the band Patrick Street with fiddle player Kevin Burke who is also in studio, as is flute player Conal Ó Gráda.
Unsurprisingly for a musician of his standing, Jackie Daly’s accordion is custom made by the French accordion designer Bertrand Gaillard. He tells host Iarla Ó Lionáird it
Sounds better and there’s more features in it.
Jackie Daly plays two polkas which he picked up in Newmarket County Cork.
This episode of ‘The Pure Drop’ was broadcast on 18 October 1988. The presenter is Iarla Ó Lionaird.
The Pure Drop' was an Irish traditional music programme produced by musician and broadcaster Tony MacMahon. The first series was filmed at the height of the summer festival season in 1987, with six of its nine episodes presented by fiddler James Kelly from Óstán Dún an Óir in Ballyferriter, West Kerry. It was first broadcast on 07 January 1988. Singer Iarla Ó Lionáird took over as presenter for the second, third and fourth series, which were filmed in Cultúrlann na hÉireann, the headquarters of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, Monkstown, County Dublin. Fiddler Paddy Glackin presented Series 5 - 9, while fiddler Martin McGinley presented the tenth and final series in 1996. The last episode was broadcast on 25 February 1996.
