Eleanor Dunsdon & Gregor Black
Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th August 2025
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*Purbeck Rising 2024 winners*
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 push musical boundaries with innovative arrangements and fresh compositions. Winners of the Danny Kyle Award and Purbeck Rising 2024, they’ve performed at events such as Celtic Connections, Love Folk Festival and the Edinburgh International Harp Festival, selling out venues on their Ireland tour.
Taking inspiration from parts of Ireland’s disappearing language, the duo explore humanity’s fascination with the ever-changing temperament of the sea through their music. Having performed across the UK and Ireland, their debut EP, ‘Let No Man’, has been championed on BBC Radio 3 (‘Round Midnight), RTÉ Radio 1 and BBC Radio Ulster. Recognised as UKHA Emerging Artists, the duo is redefining the role of the harp in contemporary music.
“A fantastic sound … smashing every stereotype there is” – (Lynette Fay, BBC Radio Ulster)
Eleanor and Gregor have presented workshops at the Edinburgh International Harp Festival, and for students at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. In February 2024 they presented a workshop and concert at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland alongside Ukranian bandura player, Anastasiya Voytyuk, showcasing the fusion of their shared musical traditions and the relationship between the bandura and Scottish harp.
