Darby O'Gill and the Little People is an indie folk-rock band from Las Vegas

Las Vegas metropolitan area

The Las Vegas Valley is the heart of the Las Vegas-Paradise, NV MSA also known as the Las Vegas–Paradise–Henderson MSA which includes all of Clark County, Nevada, and is a metropolitan area in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada. The Valley is defined by the Las Vegas Valley landform, a ...

. The band takes its name from the 1959 Disney film Darby O'Gill and the Little People

Darby O'Gill and the Little People

Darby O'Gill and the Little People is a 1959 Walt Disney Productions feature film starring Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro, Sean Connery and Jimmy O'Dea, in a tale about a wily Irishman and his battle of wits with leprechauns. The film was directed by Robert Stevenson and its screenplay written by...

. They perform original music, covers of contemporary songs, and traditional Irish songs.

Band members

• Andy Morriss
  Andy Morriss
  Andy Morris is a Las Vegas-based singer/songwriter/guitarist/musician. He is best known for his role in the Las Vegas band Darby O'Gill and the Little People as Darby O'Gill, the band's lead singer and guitarist. Previous endeavors included the 1996 founding of Las Vegas funk band The Kickwurmz ,...
  
   (Darby O'Gill) - guitar
  Guitar
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   and vocals
  Singing
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• Alex LeCavalier (Barry McKockiner) - bass
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• Jon Whisenant (Tipsy McStaggers) - drums
  Drum kit
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• Joseph Brailsford (Ringo Malarky) - accordion
  Accordion
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   and vocals
  Singing
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• Tristan Moyer (Nancy Whiskey) - fiddle
  Fiddle
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   and vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
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Band history

The band formed in 2001 and has since played regularly at many of Las Vegas' best established music venues, including Quinns Irish Pub in the Green Valley Ranch Casino, The Palapa Lounge at The Palms casino, and at the Nine Fine Irishmen at the New York, New York casino. A Las Vegas local music fixture since inception, in 2004 they released Traditional Irish Dance Music Vol. 1, which was produced/engineered by Darby O'Gill and Casey Johnson

Casey Johnson

Sale Trotter Case "Casey" Johnson was an American heiress, socialite and celebutante, as well as an occasional actress, model and author. She was one of the great-great-granddaughters of Robert Wood Johnson I .-Early life:Johnson was born in Florida...

, followed by Darby O'Gill and the Little People Live! in 2006 and Christmas Songs for the Drunken Atheist in 2007.

The band's bassist, Ted Sablay, is currently playing guitar and keyboards for The Killers on their Sam's Town

Sam's Town

-Band:*Brandon Flowers – lead vocals, keyboards, bass *Dave Keuning – guitar, background vocals*Mark Stoermer – bass, background vocals, guitar *Ronnie Vannucci – drums, percussion-Additional musicians:...

tour.