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Eliot Grasso & Glen Waddell... live on the patio at beergarden

  • beergarden 777 West 6th Avenue Eugene, OR, 97402 United States (map)

About Eliot Grasso (uilleann pipes, flute, tin whistle)

Eliot has taught, performed, and recorded throughout North America and Europe for over two decades and is a founding member of the Celtic ensemble Dréos. He 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 in Armagh, 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. Eliot 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. He teaches music at Gutenberg College in Eugene, Oregon. A fuller picture of his endeavors is available at www.eliotgrasso.com.

About Glen Waddell (guitar)

A Canadian multi-instrumentalist, Glen Waddell grew up immersed in the music of his Scottish-immigrant family, with Canadian Folk/Rock/Country and British brass banding influences mixed in. He played with the then-popular pacific northwest band Skye soon after his move to Oregon in 2001, and quickly garnered a reputation for trad and folk accompaniment in the pacific northwest—he joined forces with Eliot Grasso somewhere around 2006. On stage, in a studio or pub, or even a well-tiled bathroom, playing music is a bit of a sanctuary and an energy source for him—he is quick to encourage younger musicians to protect their passions from monetization, pushing back on the more-common advice to “Find what you love, then find a way to make money at it.”

As always, shows are ALL AGES and no cover charge.