Duncan Cameron
Lives in ON, Canada
 Duncan Cameron is well known at Celtic music venues and folk festivals for his strong vocals and remarkable instrumental abilities. He plays twelve instruments including fiddle, guitar, whistles, uilleann pipes, bodhrán, Irish bouzouki, mandolin, mandola, Irish tenor banjo, five-string banjo, English concertina, and Appalachian dulcimer.
Duncan Cameron's debut solo album The Whistling Thief (released in 2000) features both traditional music and his original songs and instrumentals. For over fifteen years, Duncan has been teaching group classes and private lessons. He has transcribed several fiddle books, and recorded instructional CDs.
In 2006, Duncan Cameron's Celtic band Fig For A Kiss (with fellow multi-instrumentalists Sahra Featherstone, Joe Phillips and the recent addition of Fiona Coll) was nominated for The Canadian Folk Music Awards for "Best Instrumental Group". Duncan is also a member of Tamarack, and The Pierre Schryer Band, whose Blue Drag CD was nominated for the "Best Roots/Traditional Album of the Year" Juno Award in 2004. In 1998, Duncan Cameron joined Mary Jane Lamond and John McDermott as one of the original cast members of the hit theatrical show Needfire, at the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto. He continues to tour solo and with numerous bands across Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom.
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