About Blueflint

Touted by the Scotland on Sunday as one of the top ten acts to watch over the summer, Blueflint are the banjo duo of Deborah Arnott and Clare-Louise Neilson, with Roddy Neilson on fiddle, Joey Sanderson on double bass and Ian Stoddart on drums. 

Blueflint’s material is heavily influenced by Bluegrass and American Old-time music and they subtly intertwine the three-finger picking and clawhammer styles of banjo playing to accompany smooth vocals and harmonies in songs and ballads of love, loss and revenge.

The duo formed in 2003 and since then have toured extensively at a range of venues throughout the UK, including Come Down & Meet the Folks; What’s Cookin’ and the Green Note – London; the Greenman Festival – Devon; the Cornish Bluegrass Festival; Loch Lomond Festival; The Grand Ole Opry and The Goat - Glasgow; Leith Folk Club - Edinburgh; Hootenanny – Inverness; The Lemon Tree – Aberdeen and the Showroom – Sheffield.

Radio appearances have included a live set on Archie Fisher’s ‘Travelling Folk’ show on BBC Radio Scotland in June 2006, and on Medicine Music’s ‘Medicine Show’ via Scottish Internet Radio.  They also appeared on the Danny Kyle Open Stage as part of the Celtic Connections Festival in January 2007.

The band are currently working on a new CD with Jim Sutherland producing. The band aim to tour with the new cd in the new year of 2009.

Blueflint released a CD early in 2006 which you can buy at the fantastic second-hand record and book store Elvis Shakepeare on Leith Walk, Edinburgh, or at Collectors Corner Record Shop, Swanston St, Melbourne, Australia.