"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 - 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 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 .