Andrew White
About Andrew White from Auckland
During the past year, musician Andrew White has being taking festival audiences across North America by storm with his technically amazing work on the fret-board and his soulful songs. He has toured both Canada and the UK, coast to coast with the critically acclaimed production, International Guitar Night, featuring four of the worlds most foremost acoustic guitarists. He was flown by the Canadian military to perform for the troops in the most northerly station in the world, CF Station Alert, 400kms‘ from the North Pole. His album Andrew White - Live was nominated for an East Coast Music Award in Canada and he and he has just recorded his eleventh album Traces of Silver released on Candyrat Records in Milwaukee and Ode Records in New Zealand. An impressive year for an artist who started his career busking on the streets of Auckland. Coming from humble musical beginnings, Andrew White is now an internationally acclaimed finger-style guitar virtuoso and is endorsed by Yamaha Guitars in Canada, where he now lives. Worldwide he has sold over 1-million albums and is represented by North America's most prestigious agency who also include Norah Jones and Bryan Adams on their roster of artists.
Andrew White has toured internationally as a soloist and supporting superstars such as Irish folk rock group Clannad, The Corrs, Michelle Shocked, Tommy Emanuel, The Indigo Girls, Taj Mahal and many more. He also toured with Scots folk outfit Capercaillie and took a 50,000-strong German festival audience by storm in a pairing with New Zealand's own Brendan Power, the harmonica sensation from the Riverdance Orchestra. So far, he has recorded eleven albums, including Islands, a collaboration with Grammy-nominated artist David Arkenstone. Following a live broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland, his album Celtic Gypsy, a stunning instrumental album featuring 16 hauntingly beautiful original tracks and recorded at Kare Kare Beach, was snapped up by Linn Records and distributed throughout Europe and North America. Andrew's first vocal album, Pray For Rain, features such artists as Karen Matheson (Cappercaille), Michael McGoldrick (Afro Celt Sound System), and Brendan Power (Sting, Ray Charles). Released on the independent Scottish label Vertical Records and produced by Capercaillie founder Donald Shaw, it is a skilful recording with a unique mix of styles, strengthened by Andrew's brilliant guitar playing and soulful vocals. In January of 2005, he released Andrew White - Live, recorded by CBC Radio Canada originally for the Atlantic Airwaves program and broadcast to over 2-million people.
Accompanying the release of this highly anticipated new album, Traces of Silver, are sets of transcriptions of both original instrumentals and songs from the CD. During his New Zealand tour he is also re-releasing two albums from his earlier discography, Conversations and Celtic Gypsy (Ode Records - New Zealand) which have had great consumer demand and haven't been available for some years.
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