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

Gordon took up the fiddle at 6 years old, taking lessons form Miss Margaret Henderson in Wick. Her other renowned pupils were Addie Harper Snr and Jnr and she was a wonderful tutor with extremely high standards.

In his High School years Gordon took lessons from Iain Sinclair, a member of folk band Mirk while continuing to be influenced by Addie Harper Snr who played in The Wick Scottish Dance. He also attended the Stirling University summer schools learning from guest tutors including Alastair Hardie & Tom Anderson. Gordon's talent shone through at an early age and he won many Scots fiddle competitions all over Scotland.


At the age of 17 Gordon met Davy Duff from Golspie, an amazing singer and guitarist and a founder member of Colorado. Gordon's eyes were opened to many other genres of music - folk, jazz, blue grass, etc and things took off from there.

Gordon exploded onto the traditional music scene with the release of his "Shoreside" album (2000) taking everyone by storm and elevating Gordon to the "most wanted" list in the business.

Gordon's dynamic playing is to the fore in his three current bands Gordon Gunn Band, Session A9 and Anam. His extraordinarily skilful playing and masterly technical brilliance add a thrilling edge of excitement to his live performances. The fast tunes fly out with inimitable panache and then great sensitivity is expressed through airs such as his own very beautiful “Orkney”.

With these bands he has performed to audiences at the Cambridge Festival , Tonder Festival, Celtic Connections, Edinburgh Hogmanay, Shetland Folk Festival, Orkney Folk Festival, Highland Festival, Eastleigh Festival, Brigg Fiddle Festival, Blas Festival and festivals in Ireland, Italy, Spain & Canada.

Gordon regularly performs to worldwide guests at Ackergill Tower near Wick, and has also performed for the Queen Mother at the Castle of Mey.

Gordon has recorded many radio broadcasts with The Gordon Gunn Band and Session A9 including BBC Radio Scotland's "Take the Floor", "Live at the Lemon Tree", “Celtic Connections”, “Travelling Folk” and "Mr Anderson's Fine Tunes", plus live work on BBC Radio 2 & 4.

Radio & TV Performances
For television Gordon composed and performed music along with Ruby Rendall for BBC TV's "Beechgrove Garden" and more recently the Gordon Gunn Band appeared on STV's "Northern Nights", for which the band received rave reviews. His television appearances also include Tacsi, Northern Nights, Ceol Aig A Chisteal and “Ceòl na fidhle”.

Composer
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 and American fiddler Rodney Miller to name but a few.

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

Gordon is also in demand as a session musician and recent projects include Aidan O'Rourke's "Sirius", Bruce MacGregor's "Lochness" album. A soloist in Simon Thoumire's fiddle concerto, touring with Christine Hanson's "Cremation of Sam McGee" and has recently completed session work on the new album by well known Skye musician Blair Douglas.