MICKEY MURPHY is a contemporary fingerstyle guitarist and composer from N. Ireland and has just released 'Turais' his first solo guitar album after many years of gigging both locally and abroad with his own band Cold Porter and several international artists such as Country star Susan McCann and songwriting legend Phil Coulter.
A self-taught guitarist, Mickey spent his early career as a jobbing lead guitar player in local bands whilst studying Classical guitar and attaining an Honours Degree in Music.
He is also a well respected teacher and has taught literally hundreds of guitarists over the years in various schools and workshops and teaches at the Thomas Leeb Acoustic Guitar Bootcamp every July in Austria which attracts students from many parts of the world.
Mickey is also on the examining panel of the RGT (London College Of Music) graded guitar exams and sometimes demos for Lowden Guitars and is an endorsee of G7th Capos.