Gordon Gunn has been described as "one of the most exciting and innovative fiddle players of the times."

Born & brought up in Wick, Caithness, Gordon was taught by the highly respected violin teacher Margaret Henderson who taught many pupils in the north including Addie Harper snr & jnr.

Whilst working with Session A9 & Anam, Gordon also tours with his own band that includes Session A9's Brian McAlpine on keyboards and Orkney's Phil Anderson on guitar & vocals. The guys are currently in the studio working on a follow up recording to their highly successful first album "Shoreside".


Gordon is also a respected fiddle tutor, composer and session musician. His compositions have been recorded by many artistes including Session A9, Phil Cunningham & Aly Bain, Ingrid Henderson, American fiddler Rodney Miller and "McGregor, Brechin & O'Headra" to name but a few.

As a fiddle and group work tutor Gordon regularly teaches for Feis Rois. He has also taught workshops for Glasgow Fiddle Workshop, The National Centre of Excellence in Trad Music in Plockton, Sabhal Mor Ostaig, Edinburgh Youth Gaitherin, Edinburgh Fiddle Festival, Feisean Nan Gaidhael, Feis Chataibh, Feis Alba, Feis an Earraich, Feis Nairn, Feis London, Newcastle Folk Works, Inverness Trad Music Workshops, Orkney Trad Music Project and has also taught in the USA and west coast of Canada.

Gordon is in demand as a session musician and has worked on many album projects include Aidan O'Rourke's "Sirius", Bruce MacGregor's "Lochness" well respected Skye musician Blair Douglas's latest release entitled "Stay Strong" and gaelic singer Eilidh MacKenzie's new album. Gordon was a soloist in concertina maestro Simon Thoumire's Scots Fiddle Concerto, band member in Wendy Wetherby's "A Scots Quair", touring with Christine Hanson's "Cremation of Sam McGee" and was commissioned to write for Caithness writer George Gunn's "Atlantic Forest" project.

Future projects include a new writing collaboration with George Gunn, gigs with the Blair Douglas Band, collaboration with cellist Christine Hanson, touring with Session A9 and gigging with The Gordon Gunn Band on completion on their new album.