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Awards
Musical Chameleon, Multi-Instrumentalist, Recording Artist, Producer, Engineer and
now Piano Tuning - even the older models :-)
with instruments during the Supper Club at The Capitol Theatre, Tamworth Nov 2011 taken by Thomas Rosenzweig
Down load 1.1Meg Version here
Worldly with White Dove Epoch 5-string Fiddle by Peter Hammer taken at Myer Music Bowl
Sepia by Michael Schoeber taken in Berlin
Andrew Clermont's Supper Club
photo by Joe Summers (upper) & Ross Waldron (lower)
Larger version available - sms to Andrew on 0407 753 809 for quick response
BluGuru @ Borneo Rainforest Festival 2022
BluGuru 2022 by Charlotte Elsie
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First row by Jon Armstrong
2nd row : poster by Amanda Gilmour & B/W by Philomena Carrol
3rd row : Shot by Jake
The Sponsors -
Epoch Strings / Maton Guitars / Gilchrist Mandolins / White Swallow Banjos/
Clearview IT/ Better Care West NSW/ Barbecues Galore - Tamworth
Has Created -
· The NoHoldsBarred Australian Fiddle Contest ( Jan 2002 - 2008 TamFest)
· The (week long) SUPPER CLUB now 9 nights shows of hot Players/ Singers/ Performersit's 27th year in 2025 (a fringe to Tamworth Country Music Festival!)
Festival Sound Production -
Yarra Junction Fiddlers Convention (sound since late 90s)/ 23 years of Andrew Clermont's International Supper Club /
20 years of Frances Folk Gathering / Sandford Bush Festival /
Penola Coonawarra Music & Wirrina Bluegrass Festivals since their inception/ St Albans Folk Fest (from 2020)- rescuing live mixes since the beginning!
The Visual -
An imposing, colourful sight (at 2m (6ft 7ish) with perhaps a tiny Fiddle/ Mandolin in hand soaring through the music.
The Instruments -
Didgeridoo, Tenor Banjo, Mandolin & Mandola, 6 & 12-string Guitar, 4 & 5 string
Fiddles, Appalachian Dulcimer, Viola, Vocals, Mixing Desk…
The Sound -
With borrowings from most styles, there is always adventuresome music with Andrew. From Blues Fiddle showdowns with Jeff Lang to Celtic & Meditation.
Plus as 3-time Australian Bluegrass Guitar Champion '84, 85 & 87; Golden Guitar winner '87 (Best Vocal Group) with the Three Chord Wonders;
Best Folk Group - Totally Gourdgeous and nominated to top 5 Best Instrumental 5 times since '96; over 30 CDs between solo,
bands & themes there's been much variety to savour.
The Bands -
Active or on call -
- BluGuru "Ragas 2 Blu Riches" CD & Tours - a core trio from 3 groups below!
Totally Gourdgeous (Voted Best Live Folk Group - World bound)
· Andrew Clermont's Supper Club - a Festival Event & Fringe to Tamworth CM Fest
with Goldheist recently
The Apostle String Band Tours with Paul Wookey
· The Borderers (Nationally quite often - even Europe - now retired!)
very occasionally or ...
Zen Tripitalia with Chris Blyth
All Corners Covered with Rachel Johnston
Bluegrass - Made in Taiwan !
· The Lawnmowers at the "Cutting Hedge of Bluegrass" (!)
· Dya Singh World Music Group - multi -Awarded National (SA) to USA, UK & Malaysia annually)
· Terra Australis (Multi-Awarded Bush Band)
· Celtic Conundrums (with Ollie Francis RIP & Jane Brownlee)
· Fiddlers Festival (Tamworth Fest to Tokyo during the 90s and some 2000s)
see CD page
The Tour highlights -
· fiddling for Tom T Hall (USA - thrice nationally, including a fun duet support with Beccy Cole),
· Sound & multi-performer with Brian Young (4 Oz laps '84, 85, 89, 94)
· 1988 Ski season Mt Blue Cow plus World Expo Brisbane with Art Gecko (love that name)
· 1992 - 6 months World Expo, Seville, Spain at the Kangaroo Pub (the centre of one version of the world, at the time!). Also learnt didgeridoo there!
· European Tours with - Kelly's Revenge '94 (Sweden, Norway, Germany, Austria) / Norma O'Hara Murphy '95 (Germany, Ireland, London)
· Taiwan Bluegrass Show & co-ordinator '96 - 98
· USA, Canada, Asia, Kenya & Tanzania & UK with Dya Singh each year since 1999 - 1 to 3 months at a time.
· Japan & Hong Kong and Oz wide - Fiddlers Festival since '01
· All Oz capitals and most Folk Festivals - Totally Gourdgeous &/or Solo - 2001, 02 and Europe/Singapore in the years that followed
· 2002 New Zealand for Coro. St star, Kevin Kennedy and All the Best Tour, 18 shows - mostly sold out!
- 2003 to 2009 criss-crossing the planet and much of Oz with Dya Singh & Totally Gourdgeous (Denmark WA to Denmark Europe in the same month tour!)
. Around coast from Perth to Woodford QLD since Autumn 2009 with Josh Bennett
and in 2010 as well with Parvyn Kaur Singh as BluGuru. Gigs by night, cliffs & mountains by day!And sooo many more since then!
The CDs & Videos -
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1."Homegrown" (Played everything multi track Solo - Cass) Jan 1985 46. Producer to (with Quentin Eyers) Redgum Radio - John Memery : The Story-telling Sessions & Talking in Tongues 2022 47. Producer to Jack Moore "What Elephant?" 2023 Videos / DVDs 1. A Crash Course to Fiddling (or Mandolin/Didgeridoo/Guitar) Freedom VID 2000 Andrew Clermont (Oz - Gourd fretless Bass & Gourdalin/ Electic Violin) including 100 panoramas from Clermont's "Big Pics" Photography |
PHOTOGRAPHY !
. Landscape Photos orderable - see some of the examples at this link can be up to many metres long/wide!
July 2024
