Female guitarist Chantel McGregor is coming to Darlington on February 22 as part of her 2025 UK tour.
She was a teenage music prodigy who was told by major labels that she had a “great voice, but girls don’t play guitar like that!”
Wisely ignoring the comments, she enrolled at the Leeds College of Music and became the first student in the college’s history to achieve a 100 per cent pass mark, with 18 distinctions.
Chantel left with a first class Honours degree in popular music and the college’s musician of the year award.
Chantel stepped out in the pro-musician world and her stunning live performances demonstrated that she had the ability to perform rock for the new age, played by a musician born with an effortless virtuosity. Since then, she has built a loyal and growing fan base.
When Chantel released her 2011 debut album, Like No Other, one critic said: “Chantel McGregor deserves to be held up as a messiah of blues-rock and given her own mountain. She doesn’t strum or pick her guitar but almost bends and distorts it, as if she’s channelling the ghost of Hendrix through her fingers.”
The album was beautifully crafted and showcased Chantel’s versatility and talent as a singer-songwriter.
Chantel’s follow up album, Like Control received critical acclaim.
She released a rock cover of Lady Gaga’s single ‘Stupid Love’ through US record label, Cleopatra Records, in May 2020, which can be downloaded and streamed from all reputable streaming/download websites. In late 2020, Cleopatra Records released ‘Gumbo Blues’, a tribute album to `Dr John, in which Chantel was one of the featured guitarists.
