It was during this period that Jack met Graeme Burns who began to play with his band and became his best friend. The Rowan Band played together for three years and became well known locally. Powrie’s band had to leave for their gig first so, seeing an unmissable opportunity for mischief, the Rankine band turned their rooms upside down and hid  some of the Powrie band’s belongings in the gutters of the hotel’s roof. 100.3k Followers, 2,234 Following, 2,152 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Jack Lawrence Delany (@jackldelany) He reckons that Hamish and Dochie are two of the finest gentlemen in the band business. and Radio Forth on Robin Brock’s programme.Over the years Jack has played second box for many different artists’ recordings and broadcasts.

They played together for almost two years and even travelled to on occasions to play at the country dance club there.In June 1955, when he was twenty Jack finished his National Service and was back in Alloa. When they emerged into the street their black suits had turned grey with all the flour floating about. It was after one such dance in Strathpeffer that the band was heading home when the dynamo on their Vauxhall Velox packed in. Unfortunately they had to part company as some of the members went to do their National Service. BoxRec.com uses cookies to make the site simpler. For many years Jack helped tutor bands of young people in an organisation called ‘The Clachan Ceilidh’. This band consisted of Hamish Menzies on fiddle, Dochie McCallum on Shand Morino, Bert Leishman on drums, Walter Sinton on piano and Robert Anderson on bass. He still “enjoys the tune and the crack” as much as ever. They had many happy times together and are still very close friends. Alastair started in 1981 and in Jack’s words he “couldn’t have found a better pianist, bandsman and friend”. Jack remembers that at one point he was on stage playing a large Hohner Morino V while Forbes MacFarlane was playing his Hohner Black Dot Double Ray melodeon.

Having no experience of Scottish Country Dancing and little knowledge of the skills required, Jack had to embark on a steep learning curve to find original tunes and learn the discipline of counting bars etc. After closing time in the Lochearnhead Hotel the locals all piled into the hall to dance for about two hours and many stories could be told about that period.

He managed to enlist the help of some of his fellow National Servicemen to play with him, namely Arthur McKinney on drums, Alastair Reid on piano and Dave McGirr on double bass. For instance, the Rankine band was booked to play at Friockheim in Angus one evening. Celtic Connections Box and Fiddle Night 2012 However, Jack remembers that on the way to to audition and play in his first broadcast, Andrew realised that he had actually forgotten to put his accordion in the car so they had to make a mad dash back to Menstrie to pick it up. Most recently, he was involved with Iain MacPhail in making a CD for Logan MacGregor called ‘Reflecting On Rankine’, an album of Andrew Rankine compositions and sets with Iain MacPhail taking the lead and Grandad on second box. In 1960, Jack joined the Hamish Menzies band and played with them until 1972. The duo became regular guests with the choir and this helped them to build up confidence to later set up ‘The Rowan Band’ with Bert O’Donnell (fiddle), Andrew Grant (drums) and Jimmy Scott (piano). Jean and her husband John became close friends with Jack and Leslie and she still sings with Jack every Thursday at a voluntary group in During the late seventies Jack was once again invited to play with Andrew Rankine when he came up to Scotland to do broadcasts for the B.B.C. In 1969, the band moved from Lochearnhead village hall to the Trossachs Hotel where they played for dancing every Saturday evening. The drunken farmer never even noticed it happening and the smell of burned hair lingered in the hall all night.

The Queen commented to Grandad that she was most concerned that they had to carry so much heavy equipment around with them! Jack has always been keen to see traditional Scottish music survive and be enjoyed by as many people as possible. On occasions the group would go on exchange visits to where they were once involved in a TV broadcast. ). Join Facebook to connect with Jack DeLaney and others you may know. Then there was the night when the two of them decided to race each other back to Balquhidder, one in the old van and the other on an old motor bike. John (Jack to everyone) Gordon Delaney was born on 19th February 1935, in Inverkeithing … and we haven’t had any peace since (based on information from my Gran and all the family! Bobby was a hero to both Andrew and Jack and they were inspired by this new sound and technique and immediately started experimenting and developing the idea. Ever since his presentation in 2006 the N.A.A.F.C. On another occasion the two worthies were both fairly fu’ and at the evenings end one of them had difficulty in locating his key into the lock on his van door. when he accidentally arranged a gig in the for someone’s silver wedding party – on the day of his own silver wedding!! Committee has been asking us to write down some of his musical memoirs for the “Box and Fiddle” magazine, so here goes.John (Jack to everyone) Gordon Delaney was born on , in Inverkeithing … and we haven’t had any peace since (based on information from my Gran and all the family!). During the sixties and seventies Jack played second box with lots of bands making records and doing broadcasts frequently. For the past ten years the band has played at the Pitlochry Street Party which is held on New Year’s Day. Shortly after, Jim asked Jack to do a series of country dance recordings with him at the Craighall studio in for Bryce Laing. They did have a good laugh about the Inverness Hotel incident together and again thought they were got away with it until they returned to their Volkswagen to find the spark plugs had been nicked!Bands could also get on pretty well too if the occasion called for it. He says he wouldn’t have been doing guest artiste spots at Accordion and Fiddle Clubs now if it wasn’t for me playing with him in the band – so I’d like to say a big ‘Thank You’ to him. with the Royal Army Pay Corps that Jack was invited to play for the Leeds Scottish Country Dance Club’s monthly dance.

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