Starstruck local band honoured to meet country legends in Grand Ole Opry

After coming off stage at the world-famous Grand Ole Opry in Nashville last week, Offaly band Jig Jam couldn't believe their eyes when they saw country legends Garth Brooks, and his wife Trisha Yearwood, outside their dressing room.

"They were about to go on stage as surprise guests that nobody in The Opry even knew about! To say we were starstruck was an understatement," the band said in a message on social media.

"To share the stage on the same night as these legends and to see them perform was truly something else! A very special Opry moment!"

Jig Jam, founded by Offaly natives Jamie McKeogh from Durrow and Kilcormac's Daithi Melia, along with Tipperary's Gavin Strappe and Glasgow born Danny Hunter, described the prospect of performing on country music's biggest stage as a "dream come true" last month.

Billed as ‘The best Irish band in bluegrass’ and ‘sparkling, infectious’ the band have been hailed as ‘Ireland’s answer to New Grass Revival’.

Jig Jam are currently in the midst of tour across North American Spring tour, which is taking in the Canadian cities of Vancouver and Calgary, then it's on to Lincoln in Nebraska, Idaho Falls, Nashville and Evanston in Wyoming. They also recently played the Meadowgrass Music Festival in Colarado Springs.