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Originally from Belfast but now living in Australia, Andy continues to fill venues around the world with his winning personality and high energy stage performances. Remarkably, his latest album ‘Songwriter’ could be his best yet and it certainly marks another high in a long and outstanding career.  But that’s not all. During the last year Andy has published his semi-autobiographical “21^st Century Troubadour” – an often hilarious account of life on the road – and toured throughout North America and Europe with his long term friend Stephen Fearing (Blackie & The Rodeo Kings) to support their joint album Fearing & White.

‘Songwriter is on repeat in my car stereo - and if Andy never writes another song in his life - it doesn't matter. 'If You Want It' is simply one of the best songs I've ever heard.’ Ivan Martin, one of Northern Ireland’s top DJs 

'I love this man and his music. Rave on!’ Janice Long, BBC Radio 2

This international treasure is a storyteller in the classical mould who weaves his words with gorgeous melodies and wry humour. Blisteringly romantic without being sentimental.’ The Stage 

 Throughout his career, Andy White has made intelligent, compelling music’  Financial Times

‘A national treasure’ The Music Critic

‘25 years after he began to stake his patch in the music world, the self-styled bard of Belfast not only shows no sign of slowing down, but he even has the effrontery to sound better than ever.’ Whisperin' and Hollerin' 

In conjunction with the performance album, which featured both songs and poems, Lagan Press published a book of Andy’s lyrics and poems entitled  ‘The Music of What Happens’ (1999). The book was launched at the Dublin Writer’s Festival and Cúirt in Galway.

In the meantime, Andy wrote an eponymous album in Switzerland, returning to Dublin to record it in Temple Bar with a team of friends including Kieran and Maria Doyle-Kennedy, Bronagh Gallagher, his sister Cathy, Liam O Maonlaí, Dave Clarke and Nick Seymour. ‘Andy White’ was the first of Andy’s albums to be released by UK label Floating World, in 2001.

Andy moved to Melbourne the following year, finding a new home and the inspiration to write the albums ‘Boy 40’ (Floating World, 2003), ‘Garageband’ (2006), and ‘Songwriter’ (2009) and the latest a collaboration with the double award winner Juno Canadian singer songwriter Stephen Fearing ‘Fearing & White (2011)

Highlights of the past few years include being musical director and host of WOMAD UK gala finales at Las Palmas in Spain and Reading UK in 2005, working with John Leckie on the past two albums, co-writing and producing artists in Italy, Netherlands and the UK, tutoring WOMAD Summer School and the UK Songwriting Festival.

The world of Andy White is peripatetic, intuitive, never uneventful. In November 2009 Lagan Press published ‘21st Century Troubadour’ Andy’s on-the-road journal, which tells the whole story. It could be subtitled, after one of Andy’s best-known songs, ‘Street Scenes From My Heart’. In 2011 Andy toured throughout North America and Europe with his long term friend Stephen Fearing (Blackie & The Rodeo Kings) to support their joint album Fearing & White.

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