Elise Boeur & Adam Iredale-Gray

JUNO nominated, Canadian Folk Music Award winning instrumentalists Elise Boeur & Adam Iredale-Gray explore fiddle music in fluid, easy lockstep. Fiddler and Hardanger fiddle player Boeur draws from the wells of Norwegian and Swedish music, and Iredale-Gray is a versatile guitarist and fiddler with deep roots in Irish traditions. 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. Their show is a masterful exploration of traditional music collected from years of immersion. Norwegian gangars learned in the mountains of Telemark, Irish jigs picked up from countless sessions, French bourrées lifted from community dances - the thread that connects these pieces is Boeur and Iredale-Gray’s open-hearted, contagious love of the melodies.