Folk Bands and Artists
Jack Talty
Jack Talty is a traditional musician, producer, and composer from Lissycasey in county Clare. As a performer, Jack has toured extensively throughout Ireland, Europe, the United States, Asia, and Australia, and has contributed to over 70 albums as a performer, producer, composer, arranger, and engineer. In 2011, he founded the record label, Raelach Records and in 2013, co-founded the award-winning Ensemble Ériu with schoolmate Neil Ó Loclainn.
The ensemble’s latest recording Stargazer, an album of original music inspired by the work of Jack B. Yeats, was released by Diatribe Records in 2017, and was listed third in Songlines’ top essential Irish albums of all time. In 2011 Jack released Na Fir Bolg, a duet album with concertina player Cormac Begley, and in 2016 he released his début solo recording, In Flow. He also performs regularly with Dave Flynn’s Irish Memory Orchestra. Jack is a BMus and BA graduate of University College Cork, where he was awarded the Seán Ó Riada Memorial Prize and the Mary V. Hart Memorial Prize. In October 2019 Jack was appointed Traditional Artist in Residence at University College Cork and he is currently working on an audio-visual installation project with photographer and filmmaker Maurice Gunning as Clare Arts Office Creators in Residence at the Irish Traditional Music Archive. In February 2019, Jack was appointed as research consultant with the newly-established Trad Ireland.
