"He is a creative force in the songwriter movement, a dynamite guitarist, and a traditional song interpreter of great skill. His introductions to songs can keep you doubled up with laughter, his songs run the gamut of human experience and emotion." - Phil Cooper

Lauded as one of contemporary folk's top songsmiths, Andrew Calhoun also has a traditional side.   Throughout his career as a musician, songwriter, poet and performer, he has been inpired by the wellspring of traditional music and song. 

Folk music is part of his earliest memories  memories - he recalls that his mother sang him to sleep with ballads such as "The Bonnie Earl of Moray" and "The Cruel Mother".    "One hot afternoon, I was singing a version of the Devil's Nine Questions, and had this epiphany - I wasn't some modern folksinger interpreting the tradition, I was, simply, one of the people who passed this song on - a small but essential part of a mighty thing."

Two of Andrew's recent projects have delved deeply into traditional folk music. In 2003 he released Telfer's Cows, an album of Scottish folk songs, and more t recently "Bound To Go", a meticulously researched collection of African American folk songs mostly dating from the era of slavery and beyond, but pre-dating the development of the blues in the early-20th Century.

Visit Andrew's website at www.andrewcalhoun.com.

Hear more of his music at www.myspace.com/andrewcalhoun .