The Paul Mirfin Band information

The Paul Mirfin Band
The Paul Mirfin Band performing in 2018
Background information
Origin	Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, England
Genres	Folk rock gospel Americana
Years active	2015 (2015)–present
Members	Paul Mirfin Ben Mirfin Warren Timmis Mark Boyle John Evamy
Past members	Dom Cottrill Dan Jackman
Website	Official website

The Paul Mirfin Band are a folk rock band from Knaresborough, North Yorkshire that formed in May 2015. The founding member was Paul Mirfin (lead vocals, guitar, merlin, harmonica) who, whilst working as a train conductor on Northern Rail, began writing and performing songs at music events that he organised at the local Caffe Nero branch in Harrogate. The original band came together after Mirfin put a call out at his local church to recruit musicians. During the first few months of forming there was a speedy acceleration in the popularity of the band as they played in pubs, cafes, churches and at country music festivals. The trio's unique acoustic sound with a range of instruments from Merlin^[1] to Irish Bouzouki set alongside rich three part harmonies influenced by violinist Dan Jackman's classical music training set them apart from other bands on the gig circuit. Drawing from influences such as Del Amitri, David Crowder, Johnny Cash and Mumford & Sons they were strong on melodies and story-telling lyrics.

After an appearance on BBC Songs of Praise in June 2016, where Mirfin was featured as Yorkshire's Singing Train Conductor ^[2] by presenter Diane-Louise Jordan, the band began to gain momentum releasing their first EP 'Bring the Rain'^[3] in the same month and playing to sell out venues in the Yorkshire area. Recorded in one day at a small local studio called Homefire,^[4] this live studio recording provided a springboard onto the international music scene.