The Three Jacks is the new name of Miami’s own Celtic rockers, The Volunteers – one of America’s most entertaining Celtic rock bands with well over fifteen years of packed-out shows at clubs, pubs and auditoriums in the US and abroad.

In “Treachery, Lust & Misfortune – American Celtic” The Three Jacks take the Celtic musical inheritance of the Americas into a new century. To a base mix of much-loved Celtic traditional tunes, they fold in their mistreatments of the Celtic classics – most notably numbers by the blind, 17th Century, Irish, folk/baroque harper and boozer, Turlough O’Carolan – (his “Lord Inchiquin” now has a set of bawdy lyrics and has been re-christened “Ramrods & Bearskins”) – whip in brand new (soon to be) Celtic classics from their “catalog of 18th century folk-songs we wrote last week” – like “The ballad of the Bare-Ass Girl” – and then leaven the whole heady brew with rip-out, stomping, fiddle break-downs.

The Three Jacks are: Henk Milne (guitars and lead vocals), Jack Stamatas (fiddle & pennywhistle), Jack Shawde (guitars), Debbie Duke (bass), Diane Ward (drums, percussion, and backing vocals)