Jack Ruane Showband Ballina
 Anybody old enough to remember the Olympia and Atlantic Ballrooms will be familiar with the name of
 Jack Ruane and his Showband. Jack was the West of Ireland's answer to Mick Delahunty and Maurice
 Mulcahy and his orchestra played all over Ireland and in the top Irish ballrooms in Britain and the United
  States. When tastes changed in the Sixties he was one of the few big band leaders to successfully make
   the changeover to showband and he contined to enjoy a successful career on the road until the boom
  finally ended in the early Seventies. He then returned to jazz which was his first love and continued to
   play at local sessions until his health gave out.
Jack died peacefully in his home town of Ballina May 1997

Paraic Potter,(Sax/Clarinet)
Mickey Brennan Trombone and Marty Brennan (Drums) (The Clefonaires)

Jackie Burke,(Trumpet)Tommy Murphy (Drummer)

 The Jack Ruane Band
Story by Judd Ruane

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