Eliot Grasso

The 2020 Samhain Celtic New Year Festival is excited to welcome performer and scholar Eliot Grasso.

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Performer-scholar, Eliot Grasso, teaches music at Gutenberg College. He has taught, performed, and recorded throughout North America and Europe for over two decades. Eliot has performed for President Clinton at the NEA Awards, appeared as a featured artist on “Prairie Home Companion,” performed and taught for the William Kennedy Piping Festival, and appeared as a soloist in the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall for Scotland’s National Piping Festival, Piping Live. Eliot has over a dozen recordings to his name, including an album of unaccompanied uilleann piping, which is volume 1 of Na Píobairí Uilleann’s series of master pipers, The Ace and Deuce of Piping. He holds a Ph.D. in musicology from the University of Oregon, and a M.A. in ethnomusicology from the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick. Grasso’s artistic and academic work as a performer, recording artist, composer, and researcher has earned awards from the traditional music community, the recording industry, and the academic establishment. 

A fuller picture of his endeavors is available at www.eliotgrasso.com.