Liffey Light Orchestra's new album

Jigs and Other Stories, now available

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This, the 4th studio album from the Liffey Light Orchestra, mixes Irish traditional, folk, and progressive rock influences.

Musicians featured include Anto Drennan (electric and acoustic guitars), Michael Buckley (flute), John McCullough (flute), David Agnew (oboe and recorder), Robbie Harris (bodhrán and shaker), Kevin Rowe (electric guitar), Philip Begley (piano and drums), and Paul Egan (piano).

Beginnings as a tribute band

The Liffey Light Orchestra grew out of the theatre pit band at Dublin University Players, the drama society at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. It became a Mike Oldfield and Jean-Michel Jarre tribute band, being among the first bands to perform Oldfield's Tubular Bells and Jarre's Oxygene, and the first to perform Oldfield's Ommadawn .

Studio albums

In 2011, the LIffey Light Orchestra released its first studio album Filaments. This was followed by Le French Album in 2017 and Lekeila in 2020, which was rated in the top 20 folk albums of that year by Hot Press magazine. The most recent album, Jigs and Other Stories, was released in June 2025.