Andrew grew up in Silver City, New Mexico in a musical family of 7 children.  As a child, his family traveled much in Mexico and Central America, having much interaction with Latin-American culture and the Spanish language.  In college, Andrew spent a semester living in Sevilla, Spain, where his passion for music and travel began to ignite, after years of immersion in his love for basketball.  Over the next few years, Andrew lived, worked, and traveled in Egypt and the Middle East, Morocco, Brazil, Central America, South Korea, India, and in various parts of the United States.  



     Breathing in the music and culture of these places, Andrew learned to speak Spanish and Portuguese fluently.  He became involved with the Afro-Brazilian ritual movement-art Capoeira, learning to sing and play the Capoeira music, including all the traditional percussion instruments and the Berimbau (an ancient gourd-bow instrument).  Andrew began learning to play guitar on his own, with some help from older brother and musician Peter Dahl-Bredine.  



     First drawn to play and sing Brazilian Samba and MPB music, as well as other Gypsy, Latin, and African styles of music, Andrew and Peter formed the World Music band Compás, playing all these musical styles with a five-piece band.  Playing at outdoor festivals and events, mostly all-ages, Compás managed to attract crowds of hundreds of ecstatic people from children to old people to dance to this unfamiliar but wonderful music. 

     Andrew also began writing songs in many styles, translating a long passion of poetry to the world of music.  Influences of Brazilian and Cuban songwriter greats Caetano Veloso and Silvio Rodriguez, as well as the Sufi mystic poets Hafiz and Rumi found their way into his songs, as the songs continued to appear.



     In 2006, Andrew released two CDs: All I Know, a mostly English-language album of all original songs, and Presente: a collection of songs sung in Spanish and Portuguese, mostly originals.  That year he met his mate, Lexa Jobe.  They went off traveling on a shoestring around Mexico for four months, deeping their knowledge and relationship to the natural world and the Old Way traditions of living lightly on the Earth and knowing one's place and one's fellow relations.

    In 2007, they both embarked on a one-year attempt at living in the wilderness in Wisconsin in a communal-living situation patterned after the hunter-gatherer tradition so common throughout the world and across history.  They failed to complete the year, being turned back by various social and psychological thresholds and questions, and instead settled in the Gila River Valley, in the same stomping grounds where Andrew grew up.  There, their daughter, Graceful Fawn was born, in a thatched wigwam Andrew made there in a willow thicket.  They lived there for a year without electricity, enjoying the beauties and pleasures of living simply and close to the ground, to the plants and animals, mountains, and river.  But, as over and over again becomes clear, humans are social and communal beings: the isolation became undesirable, and they moved in closer to town, still searching for a more communal way that feeds and serves a balance in us, adults and children.



    Andrew has since come out with two more albums, Remystify and his latest release, Alone, which came out in November of 2009.  This latest release features an intimate, stripped down style of just guitar and vocals.  The songs meld beautiful guitar melodies and edgy, vulnerable songs chronicling the challenges, heartbreaks, joys, and beauties of a human being in the quest for balance.
  
 Andrew continues to play in festivals and at listening-room venues across the Southwest.