Biography
Andrew's 'Africa Tap' video is now up! Check it out at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZV4ULazntY
Update from Andrew...
I will spend much of the Fall '09 recording my new CD and songwriting for Roadmap Music . In Spring 2010, watch for upcoming shows in Ontario and Texas! A BIG thanks to everyone who comes out to the shows!
My summer was very laid-back indeed. I had a horse-back riding accident that landed me in hospital for 9 days with 7 broken ribs, a popped lung, a dislocated shoulder and a sternum fractured in two places. OUCH! So my local shows over the summer had to be canceled . And sadder still, my annual salmon-fishing trip to Kitimat with my son Zachari was also canceled.
HOWEVER, I still went to Europe in August to celebrate the opening of the new artist centre in Dresden with an all-day concert. Then I played some solo shows in Germany and Switzerland. I traveled with my wife Tami and my daughter Avery, and we spent some time being tourists in Paris.
BIOGRAPHY
Andrew's live show combines his award winning talent as a SINGER/SONGWRITER and INSTRUMENTALIST. He has been playing folk clubs, festivals and house concerts in Canada, the USA and Europe to enthusiastic audiences. Andrew has shared the stage with Bruce Cockburn, Ruthie Foster, Gordie Sampson, Martyn Joseph and David Wilcox. In 2007 Andrew Smith played at the INTERNATIONAL GUITAR FESTIVAL in Dresden Germany (to rave reviews). The festival featured a dozen great guitar players from around the world including Peter Finger and Frank Haunschild. He also travelled to Africa with a film crew - commissioned to write and record a tap style instrumental piece for the documentary film 'An Orphan's Dream'.
Andrew won the KERRVILLE NEW FOLK SONGWRITING COMPETITION on the strength of his songs 'Holes in the Night Sky' and 'Rite of Passage'
'Rite of Passage' received Honourable Mention at the MID ATLANTIC SONG CONTEST, and was short-listed for the INTERNATIONAL SONGWRITING CONTEST.
'Do You Like It?' received Honourable Mention at the 2007 SINGER-SONGWRITER AWARDS.
Andrew's solo instrumental CD 'escape velocity' won him the OKANAGAN INSTRUMENTALIST OF THE YEAR award and received two nominations from 'JUST PLAIN FOLKS' MUSIC AWARDS, and 'The Pilgrimage' was short-listed for the INTERNATIONAL SONGWRITING CONTEST.
"Absolute World Class!"
Sachsische Zeitung Dresden (The Saxony Times, Dresden Germany Daily Newspaper)
"our new 'find-of-the-year' on Canadian Spaces"
Chopper McKinnon CKCU
"like Don Ross, and very melodic"
Folk Routes CKUA
Smith is also one third of the popular folk trio Smith Funk and Strauss. Andrew also works as a producer out of his own studio in Kelowna, BC. He was recently awarded PRODUCER OF THE YEAR in the Okanagan region, and recorded award-winning folk artist Jane Eamon's 'a different place' and latest cd 'deep water'.
Andrew Smith's latest CD 'THE WORLD HAS WINDOWS' is a stellar singer-songwriter collection including the award-winning 'Rite of Passage' plus two new tap-style acoustic guitar instrumentals.
Instrumentation
Andrew Smith - guitars and vocals
Discography
THE WORLD HAS WINDOWS CD and
ESCAPE VELOCITY CD ON SALE AT:
itunes
www.cdbaby.com
Andrew Smith - The World Has Windows, Sept '07
Andrew Smith - escape velocity (solo instrumental CD), April '05
Smith Funk & Strauss - Like a Road, June '04
Smith Funk & Strauss - SFS, Sept '02