On 11 September 2010, Duke Special played at the Last Night of the Proms for the BBC at Hillsborough Castle. In January 2011, he presented a documentary on the life and songs of Belfast's Ruby Murray and released "Duke Special Sings the Songs of Ruby Murray". In March 2011, he performed songs based on the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Paul Strand at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. These songs were subsequently released in November 2011 as the album "Under the Dark Cloth" performed alongside The RTÉ Concert Orchestra, conducted by David Brophy, with leader Joanne Quigley and arranged for orchestra by Michael Keeney.