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Andrew Clermont
Recent Bio
Musical Chameleon, Multi-Instrumentalist, Recording Artist,
Producer, Engineer..
The Sponsors -
Epoch Violins / Maton Guitars / Gilchrist Mandolins
/ White Swallow Banjos
Has Created -
· The NoHoldsBarred Australian Fiddle Contest
( Jan 2002 TamFest)
· Crash Course to Musical Freedom Workshop
Week ( usually end Nov)
· The (week long) SUPPER CLUB ie Night of the Piano, Swing, Slide,
Fiddle etc - it's 5th year (Tamworth Festival)
The Visual -
An imposing, colourful sight (Shirts by Janice Silks)
at 2m (6ft 7ish) with tiny Fiddle/ Mandolin in hand often beside 4ft
something performers - Kate Campbell (USA), Elizabeth Lord, Kavisha
Mazzellas (Oz), Tania Elizabeth(Canada). Perhaps instead as the worlds
tallest band with Margaret Roadknight and Peter Howell on the bass tree,
let alone when going berserk with former Fid student, now rising star,
Jodi Moore - all well over 6ft2!
The Instruments -
Didgeridoo, Tenor Banjo, Mandolin Family, 6 &
12-string Guitar, 4 & 5 string
Fiddles, Dulcimer, Viola, Vocals, Mixing Desk…
The Sound -
With borrowings from most styles, there is always
adventuresome music with Andrew. From Blues Fiddle showdowns with Jeff
Lang to Celtic & Meditation. Plus as 3-time Australian Bluegrass
Guitar Champion '84, 85 & 87; Golden Guitar winner '87 (Best Vocal
Group) with the Three Chord Wonders and nominated to top 5 Best Instrumental
5 times since '96; over 12 CDs between solo, bands & themes there's
been much variety to hear.
The Bands -
Active or on call
· Fiddlers Festival (Tamworth Fest to Tokyo)
· Dya Singh (Awarded National World Music Group (SA) to USA,
UK & Malaysia annually)
· Totally Gourdgeous (all OZ capitals)
· Terra Australis (Multi-Awarded Bush Band)
· Celtic Conundrums (the Snow band!)
· The Borderers (Nationally quite often)
· Andrew Clermont's Meltdown (for Festivals)
· with Parris Macleod & The Supper Club
· The Lawnmowers - Cutting Hedge of Bluegrass (!) see CD
page
The Tour highlights -
· fiddling for Tom T Hall (USA - thrice nationally,
including a fun duet support with Beccy Cole),
· Sound & multi-performer with Brian Young (4 Oz laps '84,
85, 89, 94)
· 1988 Ski season Mt Blue Cow plus World Expo Brisbane with Art
Gecko (love that name)
· 1992 - 6 months World Expo, Seville, Spain at the Kangaroo
Pub (the centre of one version of the world, at the time!). Also learnt
didgeridoo there!
· European Tours with - Kelly's Revenge '94 (Sweden, Norway,
Germany, Austria) / Norma O'Hara Murphy '95 (Germany, Ireland, London)
· Taiwan Bluegrass Show & co-ordinator '96 - 98
· USA, Canada & UK with Dya Singh '99, 00, 01, 02 ( 1 to
3 months) and now Malaysia.
· Japan & Hong Kong - Fiddlers Festival '01, 02
· All Oz capitals and most Folk Festivals - Totally Gourdgeous
&/or Solo - 2001, 02
· 2002 New Zealand for Coro. St star, Kevin Kennedy and All the
Best Tour, 18 shows - mostly sold out!
The CDs & Videos -
· "The Longing" - presenting a 10
year crossection - the definitive
· "BackBeat …the sessions" - rockin' Bluegrass
- a Classic
· "Didgeridoo Interludes" - landscape sounds from cello
to Didg (Alistar Black)
· "Fiddlers Festival Live" - 10 great Oz fiddlers from
3 shows'n more
· Fiddlers Festival "The Feast of Fiddlers' ABC:16 individual
artists glorifying the Violin
· Fiddlers Festival "Strung Out" -: Favourites &
More
· "Terra Australis" originally FowlHouse Jack Won of
the Battle of the BushBands 99, 2002 - Top 5 Radio airplay
· BLUEGRASS - Made In Taiwan : LIVE & STORMY - featuring
Jenny Lester (Canada), Daryl (Jack ) Melbourne & Andrew
· Instrumental adventure "Dance of the Good Life" with
the amazing Parris MacLeod (piano/drums/bass)
· "Happy As Larry" Clermont & Parris Macleod. Violin
& Piano duet instrumentals to take you away in happy ways.
· Dya Singh - "Bandagi" Active Meditation Songs &
Music! From Nth India styles .
· Dya Singh "Sukhmani Simren " - a 1 hour meditation
· TOTALLY GOURDGEOUS DEBUT CD - reggaed folk ! Penelope Swales,
Mal Webb, Carl Panuzzo, Andrew
· TOTALLY GOURDGEOUS "D'vine" Out by July 2002 . Joni
Mitchell meets James Brown in Bob Marley's pumpkin patch!
· Healing & meditation, with partner Pauline 'Songs for the
Soul' and now on Video as well, featuring Pauline's Art designs
· "Let the Sun in You Shine through" - Pauline . A
Healing CD with meditation based on recovering from Abuse
· VIDEO - A Crash Course to Fiddling Freedom (or Mandolin/Didgeridoo/guitar)
/ Totally Gourdgeous " Live Cuts from the Vine"
Saturday, May 6, 2006 1:21 PM
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