 Welcome to the site dedicated to the music and life of Andrew Dahl-Bredine. You can listen to music by clicking on the audio player at the bottom of your screen. Hear more songs and find out more about Andrew's albums at the music store, or at www.cdbaby.com/Artist/AndrewDahlBredine.
“An Evening with Andrew is one of the most enjoyable concerts we have presented since our Center’s opening. The concert was like a breath of fresh air or a cool drink of spring water, it transported us so delighfully from our everyday lives. Our audience was drawn in not only by Andrew’s uncanny and wide variety of musical abilities, his original and superior songwriting, his fluidity in several languages , but mainly his honest connection and rapport with everyone in the room. Everyone -young and old -hung on his every breath the length of the 2 hour performance. We are certain to invite Andrew Dahl-Bredine back every season to the Center for the Arts.” - Laura Moore Executive Director, Pagosa Springs Center for the Arts Andrew Dahl-Bredine is a singer-songwriter and musician from Silver City, New Mexico. He makes his living performing, teaching, writing songs, working with kids through music and nature, and living and rediscovering a life closely intertwined with the wild natural world. His singular musical style has been influenced by his travels and experiences living in various parts of the world, including Brazil, Spain, India, the Middle East, and Latin America, and his journey as a young American family man living a simple life close to the natural elements.
Initially drawn to Brazilian music, which he learned to play and sing in Portuguese, Andrew’s other early musical interests were Flamenco, various African styles, and Classical Indian Music. After founding and singing lead vocals in the World Music dance band Compás, he started playing solo as well, initially specializing in Brazilian Bossa Nova and other Latin troubador music in Portuguese and Spanish. In recent years, his songwriting has come to be the thing that gifts him the most in music, with over 60 new original songs being born, many of them now available on one of his five solo CDs. His newest album, entitled “Uncover the Beauty,” a 2011 independent release, is a starkly beautiful, intimate, and challenging collection of new original creations, as well as a few traditional American and African folk pieces. Songs on his last two albums have won The 2010 MyStudio Songwriting Competition ("Navigate"), and the 2011 Tucson Folk Festival Songwriter's Competition ("Campfire"). Andrew's unique musical style developed with the rhythms and influences of Brazil, Latin America, Spain, and Africa subtly and almost unconsciously lacing through most of his music. His poetic lyricism, developed through his own unique and unusual life experiences, and also influenced by the Sufi poets Rumi and Hafiz, and Cuban troubadour Silvio Rodriguez, weaves together a startling intimacy and vulnerability with a light-hearted, magical playfullness. Through his recordings and performances, and his everyday work with kids, music, and the natural world, Andrew seeks to uncover and express what it is to be a human being; to heal, to communicate truthfully, to feel joy and sadness, to be together and alone, and to explore what it might mean to live in balance. |
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