Café Orchestra

Merging the musical traditions of Ireland with hard-edged rock and roll, Dublin-based Café Orchestra offers emerged among the Emerald Isle’s leading folk-rock rings. Furthermore to documenting four unforgettable albums, Tres Café, After Hours, Topaz, and Feelgood, the group offered the soundtrack of such movies as the Neil Jordan-directed Michael Collins as well as the Angelica Huston-directed Agnes Dark brown and performed an extremely visible show in the Cannes Film Event in 2000. Shaped like a duo by violinist Patrick Collins and accordionist Michael Flynn, Café Orchestra spent its formative years playing in pubs, restaurants, and café pubs. Their only recording like a duo, Tres Café, premiered in 1993. Using its achievement, the group extended right into a quartet by adding electric guitar and acoustic bass. 1995 became a watershed calendar year for Café Orchestra. Furthermore to launching their second record, After Hour, the group documented their breakthrough record, Topaz, which gained a nomination in the very best Irish Album group of the IRMA (Ireland’s exact carbon copy of the Grammys) the next year. Starting a concert for R.E.M. at Slane Castle, the music group performed for the sold-out market that included Truck Morrison, U2, Brad Pitt, and film movie director Neil Jordan. Café Orchestra also collaborated, in 1995, with Shane MacGowan, the Irish Concert Orchestra, and Emotional Seafood. Establishing their studio room, in 1999, Café Orchestra documented their fourth record, Feelgood, with visitor vocalist Mary Coughlin.