When Malachy Towey beat on his drum, it will make an individual need to dance a jig — or march off to struggle. He most definitely used to be the oldest individual in Chicago to play the bodhran, a standard Irish tool comprised of a goatskin stretched over a spherical wood body. Accordionist Jimmy Keane mentioned he used to be “the first musician I ever saw play the bodhran with his massive hands and knuckles — no sticks, brooms nor brushes for Malachy — just straight from his heart to his hand.”