Coffeyville Community College welcomes Lee Murdock and Friends Sept. 1 at 10:30 a.m. in the Spencer/Rounds Performing Arts Theatre. Join Lee Murdock and Friends for a musical celebration of Ireland – with songs the Emerald Isle and from the Irish-American immigrant experience. Best-known for his interpretations of local and Great Lakes songs, Murdock has also spent many years researching and performing songs from Ireland. In fact, Murdock’s musical influences span over five centuries, from ancient Celtic harp melodies to piano rags written by the likes of Scott Joplin, to more contemporary American music.
Be ready to join in a boisterous chorus of a famous Irish Pub song, share the sly joke in a humorous old ballad, followed along to a soft Irish air or vigorous dance tune from the Emerald Isle. Follow the Irish across “The Big Pond” with songs of the Irish immigrants who settled in Chicago and the Midwest. Murdock’s will round out the concert with an anthem honoring the Irish folks who labored to build the Illinois and Michigan Canal, and story and tune from the Irish who settled on Michigan's Beaver Island, a setting so much like their homeland.