Noble Dust

PRESS

“Sweeping instrumentals and profound lyrics” - WBUR / NPR

"21 Best Massachusetts Entries to NPR's Tiny Desk Contest" - WBUR / NPR

“What’s ‘Monkey Gone to Heaven’ without a good dose of grime? As Noble Dust can demonstrate, pretty damn good.” - Vanyaland

2023 Grassy Hill Emerging Artist - Falcon Ridge Folk Festival

2023 New England Music Award Nominee Best Americana Band

“Boston group excels at making songs driven by taut, multilayered vocal harmonies and supported by Americana arrangements.” - Bandcamp

“It’s difficult to find a band that transcends to the highs of Noble Dust…the rich texture of the music is matched only by the dense lyrics that reward intent listening as much as the casual catching of an errant line in the ear.” - Adobe & Teardrops

“Noble Dust is a folk act out of Massachusetts who sneakily put out one of the best records of the year period.” - If It’s Too Loud

Best Local Albums of 2023 - Sound of Boston

“There is beauty in the power of all aspects of the band’s music, but it’s balanced by just how damn fun it is...” - Red Line Roots

BIO

Noble Dust creates dynamic, lyrically-driven folk pop, blending ethereal vocal harmonies with intricate horn and string melodies. They released their second LP ‘A Picture for a Frame’ recorded at Dimension Sound Studios with producer Dan Cardinal (Darlingside, The Ballroom Thieves) in August 2023 to critical acclaim from NPR and Bandcamp among others. The group is a 2023 & 2024 New England Music Award Nominee for Americana Band of the Year, 2023 Falcon Ridge Grassy Hill Emerging Artist and received Club Passim's inaugural Gecko Award for creative narrative works in 2023. The group's latest project 'Both Sides Now' engineered & produced by Devon Dawson (Big Thief, Local Natives) was released on Bridge & Key in September 2025.

NOTABLE PERFORMANCES

VENUES

Club Passim (Cambridge MA) · City Winery Boston Mainstage (Boston MA) · The Parlor Room (Northampton, MA) · The Grey Eagle (Asheville, NC) · The Royal Room (Seattle, WA)

FESTIVALS

Falcon Ridge Folk Festival · Ladybug Music Festival · Race Amity Festival · Folk Alliance International · NICE, a fest. · Half Moon Festival

OPENED FOR

Stephen Kellogg · Christopher Paul Stelling · Humbird · Session Americana · Adam Ezra · The Lighthouse & The Whaler · Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light · Brittany Ann Tranbaugh · Kimaya Diggs · Julie Rhodes · Louisa Stancioff · Cricket Blue

A Picture for a Frame

Based loosely on World War II era letters between Noble Dust vocalist/guitarist Emily Cunningham’s grandfather stationed in the South Pacific and her grandmother on the Homefront in Roxbury Massachusetts, Noble Dust’s sophomore album ‘A Picture for a Frame’ tells stories of ordinary people who devote their lives to something greater than themselves.