Monday, February 17, 2025
, London (Islington), United Kingdom
Monday, February 17, 2025
, London (Islington), United Kingdom
Eleanor Dunsdon & Gregor Black are a multi-award-winning Glasgow-based harp and percussion duo blending traditional music with jazz, folk, classical, and electronic influences. Graduates of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, they aim to create a sound that challenges perceptions of the harp and pushes the boundaries of the traditional music scene. Danny Kyle award-winners at Celtic Connections and Purbeck Rising winners in 2024, the duo have performed at Southport’s Love Folk Festival, the Edinburgh International Harp Festival, were voted winners of the Introducing Stage at West Coast Folk Festival, and sold out venues on their 2024 Ireland tour.
They were recently chosen as UKHA Emerging Artists and released their debut EP, 'Let No Man' in April 2024, which has been championed on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio Ulster, BBC Radio Scotland, RTÉ Radio 1 and awarded FATEA Magazine’s ‘EP of the Year 2024’ award.
“A fantastic sound … smashing every stereotype there is” (Lynette Fay, BBC Radio Ulster)
“Stunning” (BBC Radio Scotland)
"innovative, beautifully delivered ... decidedly delicious" (Jon Bennett, Folking.com)
“Eleanor Dunsdon & Gregor Black were something special ... a different feel and depth to the music” (FATEA)
Alongside their duo project, Eleanor performs with award-winning Irish alt-folk band, Ranagri, who in 2023 toured across Germany, France and the UK. In recent years she has performed at Manchester Folk Festival as part of the English Folk Expo, Costa Festival in Ibiza, and the World Harp Congress in Cardiff. In 2024 the band will perform at Cropredy Festival, Shrewsbury Folk Festival, Bristol Folk Festival and Wickham Festival. Throughout 2023 Eleanor was involved in a collaboration project with singer and musician Tony Christie, touring the UK and recording a studio album to be released in 2024. Eleanor is currently working on a project with students of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland to commission new works by Scottish composers for an ensemble of classical string quintet, clarsach and fiddle, to be programmed alongside Sally Beamish’s work ‘Seavaigers’ for the same ensemble. This project aims to further explore the interplay between classical and folk repertoire and their place within the concert hall.
Gregor is a percussionist and bodhrán player, steeped in both classical percussion and the musical traditions of Scotland and Ireland. He has gained his BMus Hons in percussion from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance before relocating to Glasgow to receive an MA in traditional music from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. He has performed at the BBC Proms in London, the Edinburgh International Festival, and was recently invited to attend Silkroad’s Global Musician Workshop in Boston. Living and working in Glasgow, he runs a series of traditional music sessions in the city as well as travelling often to London to perform with his Irish trio, Green Time Folk, and ceilidh band, Stroma.
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