Nominated for Instrumental Artist of the Year at the Western Canadian Music Awards 2023!
Members of JUNO nominated, Canadian Folk Music Award winning neo-folk quintet Aerialists, Elise Boeur & Adam Iredale-Gray explore fiddle music in fluid, easy lockstep. Fiddler and Hardanger fiddle player Elise Boeur draws from the wells of Norwegian and Swedish fiddle music, melds in fistfuls of arcane influences, and emerges with a multi-faceted sound grounded in Nordic traditions. A founding member of indie-folk band Fish & Bird, Adam Iredale-Gray is a versatile guitarist and fiddler with deep roots in Irish traditional music and a commitment to innovation. They each spent years touring as collaborators with diverse projects, and all along they were playing fiddle tunes at sessions, folk dances, and afterparties. With this duo project, you’re invited into these social music afterhours, as they dig into their favourite tunes on hardingfele, guitar, and raging twin fiddles.
10 Best New Albums From Around The World - Songlines Magazine March 2023 issue
“Gripping and visceral… well worth a listen.”
- Folkworld
“There is an almost telepathic level of communication between the players” - Fatea
"There is no pretension involved... Purely, simply, whether around a campfire with a few pals, at a cèilidh, or in front of a paying audience, these are tunes they just love to perform, and to that end, the joy they glean from doing so absolutely roars from the speakers." -Folk Radio UK
"The album is beautifully recorded and produced, with everything sounding as clear as a bell... There’s a palpable freedom of expression in the way the tunes are approached, and the playing is relaxed and intuitive throughout."
-Roots Music Canada
”Acoustic fire” - At The Barrier
Recorded at Fiddlehead Studios on Mayne Island, BC in May 2021 with Robert Alan Mackie on upright bass, and released Nov 25th 2022, Fiddle Tunes is a masterful exploration of traditional music collected from years of travel, performance, and social music making. A Norwegian gangar learned in the mountains of Telemark, Irish jigs picked up from countless sessions, a modern Icelandic jazz tune from a favourite record, a Swedish polska lifted from a community dance - the thread that connects these pieces is Boeur and Iredale-Gray’s open-hearted, contagious love of the melodies.
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
UPCOMING SHOWS
July 4th 2024, Victoria BC
City of Victoria concert series
July 26-28 2024 Kispiox Valley, BC
Kispiox Valley Music Festival
August 29th 2024, Keremeos BC
Grist Mill & Gardens
2023 Stage Plot: Download PDF
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Selected past shows:
Apr 1st 2024, Montreal QC | Labo TRAD
Mar 30th 2024, Peterborough ON | Concert & workshop
Feb 17th 2024, Toronto ON | Valentine’s Bal
Jan 27th 2024, Mayne Island BC | Robbie Burns Day
Dec 30th 2023, Mayne Island BC | Winter Ball
Thurs June 8 2023, Vancouver BC | Rogue Folk Club
May 4-6 2023, Wrexham UK | FOCUS Wales
Jan 4 2023, Mayne Island BC | Campbell Bay Music Fest Presents: Concert and Ceilidh Dance
Nov 25 2022, Toronto ON | DROM
Toronto album release show
Sept 2-4 2022, Ymir BC | Tiny Lights Festival
Sept 1 2022, Keremeos BC | Grist Mill & Gardens
July 13 2022, Victoria BC | Victoria Event Centre
Caravan World Rhythms with Vildá
Aug 22 2022, Victoria BC | Cameron Bandshell
Oct 2 2021, St Joseph Island ON | AlgomaTrad
Sept 29 2021, Winnipeg MB | House Concert
Sept 26 2021, Saskatoon SK | House Concert
Sept 3-4 2021, Victoria BC | West Coast Fiddle Fest
Aug 20 2021, Qualicum Beach BC | Folk Club
Aug 29 2020, Mayne Island BC | S,ḴŦAḴ Festival
Mar 10 2020, Victoria BC | Victoria Conservatory
Mar 6 2020, Hornby Island BC | Hall
June 1-2 2019, Sidney BC | Folk & Fiddle Festival
May 17-31 2019 | Tour, Ontario to BC