Murphy's Lore - We are a Bournemouth/Dorset based celtic band, specialising in traditional Irish music, ceilidhs and general good craic!
We will cover Dorset,Hampshire and Wiltshire in general but you are welcome to try us if further afield. We have covered Weybridge recently and are due in Ilchester soon

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.

At the beginning of 2008, to use a musical analogy, we fitted new strings, retuned and returned with a fresh new sound. The web site has been retuned as well, to reflect the changes.The two tracks on this page consist of one live clip from a Ceilidh and one that Noeleen and Alex recorded at home, a well known Irish song that we perform.

We have confirmed two local public Ceilidhs for next year (2009).These will be at Pelhams in Kinson,Bournemouth and if they are successful there will be two more and hopefully they will continue into the near future.We will post dates and contact details nearer the time.

Ceol agus craic!