Saturday 16 August 2024, Beveridge Suite, Adam Smith Theatre 3.00 pm
We are delighted to welcome back Andrea Carlson and her band after entertaining us so well last August at Hayfield. Often called a renaissance woman, Andrea Carlson has skills, but more deeply stated, a passion to lead our hearts and minds to new and refreshing experiences.
Andrea is an award-winning songwriter, with such songs as “Mysterious Moon” and “Cryin’”, and has released 6 albums and 2 singles since the start of her recording career in 2011. One song, “Avant-que l’amour nous prenne”, is featured in a movie, Christmas in Paris (2019), and another song, “Let Me Cook for You”, is in both editions of Jazz Bridge’s, Philadelphia Real Book of Jazz. Her catalogue of over 60+ songs is a mix of originals, jazz, and French Chanson.
As vocalist, she has warmed many hearts with the appeal of her velvety, sultry sound, and as a guitarist, she created her own style, with her guitar, “Kakos”. Earning her degree in Classical Guitar, at the American Conservatory of Music, she is now on the faculty of Philadelphia’s prestigious Settlement Music School. Her vibrant fingerstyle guitar playing reveals this depth of her classical study, along with modern influences, like Django Reinhardt and Charlie Byrd. Her compositions have the feel of New Orleans Jazz with ‘30s Swing sprinkled in, ranging from soft to bold and blue to bright!
Andrea actively tours, and it is far-reaching. With seventeen states, and eleven foreign countries on her list, she also performs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, nine years and counting!
Tickets are £15 (plus booking fee if booked online) or £15 on the door. Tickets on sale from the Adam Smith Box Office or online from OnFife.
