Murphy's Lore - We are a Bournemouth/Dorset based celtic band, specialising in traditional Irish music, ceilidhs (barn dance) and general good craic!
We perform a good selection of traditional and contemporary Irish music - tunes to dance to and songs to sing along with. If you don’t know the dances, our caller will teach you. If you don’t know the songs, just tap your feet and clap your hands!
We also perform a range of Scottish tunes and songs to compliment our Celtic feel and when performing with Richard we have a small battery of English tunes,as well as some of his own compositions which reflect his musical influences from across Europe. To hear us click on the links to the left on this and other pages. Most clips are live and a couple were recorded at home by Alex and Noeleen.

At the beginning of 2008, to use a musical analogy, we fitted new strings, retuned and returned with a fresh new sound. The 'new' line up is working very well and is now established, and has resulted in 2009 being our busiest year to date. We managed 48 appearances mostly Barn Dances / Ceilidhs with some music and song nights thrown in for good measure. We're hoping that continues for 2010!

For a quick check on our availabilty,click Here for a list of our current bookings
We will cover Dorset, Hampshire and Wiltshire in general but you are welcome to try us if further afield.

News and upcoming events

We are currently working on a new look website. It will be sleeker, easier to navigate and more professional looking.(No expense spared, plus a few crates of beer) We are hoping to launch this around the middle of Febuaury. Watch this space!

In the meantime, we have some new live tracks recorded which we have uploaded to our MySpace page in the interim. Click the link and have a listen

Murphy's Lore Had a fantastic last Ceilidh of 2009 with the East Dorset Caravan Club. They were great, blog soon on our MySpace site

Ceol agus craic!