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 Nordic and French 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, including their acclaimed neo-folk quintet Aerialists, 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 travel and immersion in aural traditions. Norwegian gangars learned in the mountains of Telemark, Irish jigs picked up from countless sessions, French bourrées lifted from community dances - all connected by Boeur and Iredale-Gray’s open-hearted, contagious love of the melodies. An evening with Elise and Adam is a celebration of the experience of sharing fiddle traditions the way they’ve been shared for centuries, the tune recreating itself anew with each repetition as folks sit knee to knee and play.
“There is an almost telepathic level of communication between the players”- Fatea “Gripping and visceral”- Folkworld