Dan Murphy
Dan Murphy
Dan is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Ireland. He is a songwriting lecturer on the BA MPI programme, and he plays guitar, piano, harmonica, didgeridoo, and dobro.
He studied music at the University of Limerick and later spent time in Kolkata, India, studying dobro under Grammy Award–winning Hindustani slide guitarist Debashish Bhattacharya. He also holds a Master’s degree in Songwriting.
Biography
Dan is the lead singer of the Irish band Hermitage Green, which he founded with his brother in 2010. The band signed to Sony in 2015 and have been releasing music and touring internationally ever since, sharing stages with artists such as Paloma Faith, The Pogues, Kaiser Chiefs, and The Script. To date, they have released three studio albums, and their music has been streamed over 40 million times on Spotify.
As a harmonica player, Dan has pioneered his own style of beatbox harmonica playing, which has led to performances on television in France, Ireland, the U.K., Japan, and the U.S. He is a featured artist with Lee Oskar Harmonicas and was a finalist on Germany’s Got Talent in 2025.
As an academic, Dan has broad research interests. He has contributed articles to Hot Press music magazine based on his research into AI songwriting, and more recently he completed a chapter for the book Song Studies exploring the ethnomusicology of the Irish Travelling community.