Meet Eliot Grasso (Dragon & the Night Queen Musician)

Eliot Grasso is an award-winning performer and recording artist whose performances on Irish uilleann pipes have been delighting audiences around the world for two decades. Contemporaries claim that Grasso’s “intuitive sense of melodic and technical variation make him one of the most creative and dynamic musicians in the contemporary world of Irish traditional music,” and “one of the finest uilleann pipers in the history of Irish music in America.”

He has performed extensively at venues including Constitution Hall, the Library of Congress, the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, National Geographic, and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He has collaborated with actor Russell Crowe, Grammy-winning conductor, David Sabee, and NPR personality Garrison Keillor on “A Prairie Home Companion.” For a fuller picture of Grasso’s artistic endeavors, visit www.eliotgrasso.com.

This is his second collaboration with Ballet Fantastique.