Good friend and stunning guitarist Andrew Smith will be in town this coming week to do a concert with us. I’ll attach his bio below underneath a homegrown video of him playing in his tap style. Andrew’s son attends SSU, and Andrew and I go back a long way to a recording we did together in Winnipeg.
I’ll also do a podcast interview with Andrew on artistry, creativity and faith that shouldn’t be missed. Enjoy the clip.
| This fall Andrew will play a series of concerts in the Maritimes and Eastern Canada ending up at the OCFF conference in Ottawa in late October. See the calendar for concert details.
Andrew Smith has just returned from the INTERNATIONAL GUITAR FESTIVAL in Dresden Germany (with rave reviews-see below). The festival featured a dozen great guitar players from around the world including Peter Finger and Frank Haunschild. He also recently travelled to Africa with a film crew – commissioned to write and record an instrumental guitar piece for the documentary film ‘Goal #2’. 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. Andrew wins KERRVILLE NEW FOLK SONGWRITING COMPETITION on the strength of his songs ‘Holes in the Night Sky’ and ‘Rite of Passage’ ‘Rite of Passage’ receives Honorable Mention at the Mid Atlantic Song Contest, and is short-listed for the International Songwriting Contest. ‘Do You Like It?’ receives Honourable Mention at the 2007 Singer-Songwriter Awards. Andrew’s solo instrumental CD ‘escape velocity’ wins him the ‘OKANAGAN INSTRUMENTALIST OF THE YEAR’ award, receives two nominations from Just Plain Folks Music Awards, and ‘The Pilgrimage’ is short-listed for the International Songwriting Contest. “Absolute World Class!” “our new ‘find-of-the-year’ on Canadian Spaces” “like Don Ross, and very melodic” 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. InstrumentationAndrew Smith – guitars and vocals Discography THE WORLD HAS WINDOWS CD and ESCAPE VELOCITY CD ON SALE AT: itunes www.cdbaby.com www.smithfunkandstrauss.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 |
 |