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NEW CDs
New Totally Gourdgeous single, “I Have a Dream” (a musical rendering of MLK’s speech), is released through MGM distribution:
https://TotallyGourdgeous.lnk.to/ihaveadream . More about the song at http://malwebb.com/ihaveadream.html 
The album, "Gourd in the Act”, was released in February https://www.thegroovemerchants.com/Product/85593
Also on Bandcamp: https://totallygourdgeous.bandcamp.com 
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Discography - To order just email me on andrewclermont@gmail.com

  1. Home Grown #2 (1987)
  2. BackBeat - The Sessions (1990)
  3. Didgeridoo Interludes - Alastair Black (1996)
  4. The Longing (1997)   
  5. Fiddlers Festival Live (1997)
  6. Dance Of The Good Life (2000) with Parris Macleod 
  7. Made In Taiwan - Live And Stormy (2000)
  8. Terra Australis (2000)
  9. Totally Gourdgeous (2000)
  10. D'Vine - Totally Gourdgeous (2002)
  11. CD 2005 Stroke of Midnight & CD PunKin 2011 - Totally Gourdgous
  12. Gourd in the Act
  13. THE 3 TG DVDS!! 2007 DVD - The Bazaar Clips
  14. DVD 2014 - Shades of the Vine
  15. DVD - The Ripe Stuff
  16. Happy as Larry (2001) with Parris Macleod
  17. The Lawnmowers - Combo CD
  18. Live at the Supper Club (2003) - Plus the CD trilogies from 2010 & 2012 and Double DVD "Live @ The Capitol" 2011 !!
  19. London Abstractions CD & DVD (with Mal Webb, Tom Donald & Mark Buckingham)
  20. BluGuru - Ragas 2 Blu Riches
  21. Andrew Clermont's Supper Club - Live @ The Capitol! Double DVD
  22. Golden Fiddle Showcase 2018 - 74 min plus an near A3 Poster in the cover! Also now available just below as is
  23. The Winners CD FORTE -  details just below!
  24. Supper Club T-Shirts
  25. The epic 20 year Photo Almanac of The Supper Club
  26. Tuition DVDS
               To order just email me on andrewclermont@gmail.com or via my Contacts Page
More info on Discography (all releases and year of release)

 

From Hamish Davidson: "Andrew is an extremely creative individual, and is always spontaneous, especially in live performances. His shows feature anything from traditional Indian 'standards,' or ragas, to hard driving 'thrash-grass.' On his latest album, "Dance of the Good Life" (2000), he recorded a tune titled Three Mandolins, where he plays in 3 time signatures at once. This is the type of thing you can imagine Thelonious Monk doing. Nevertheless, the result (in stereo!) creates a sensation of being inside a washing machine. This effect was very hard to recreate in MIDI, partly because there is no 'mandolin' tone available. To make the MIDI file more interesting, I have added a bass line which is not included on the recording. If you want to experience this trippy sensation first hand, you'll just have to buy the album."

MP3 Sample of 3 Mandolins 
3 Mandolins painted by Rosemary Bond Gerhardy

3 Mandolins painted by Rosemary Bond Gerhardy
- presented at the 2006 Frances Folk Gathering (SA/VIC border) and now owned by former Frances Publican, Nigel Blake.

 

Plus  T-Shirts (unbleached fibre or white) with or without sleeves (white only)
                                                And the epic 20 year Photo Almanac of The Supper Club


    120 Pages - Available in A3 $160 or A4  $95  - just send me an email andrewclermont@gmail.com
 


Golden Fiddle Showcase 2018

An extremely fortunate capture by chance via the Capitol THeatre sound guys that let us review, remix and present this outstanding concert!

Hear/ see some examples on  GFA YouTube and my YouTube "House" Here

 

PLUS the original Compilation CD FORTE of Australian Fiddlers from the GOLDEN FIDDLE AWARDS



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BluGuru - Ragas 2 Blu Riches
Parvyn & Josh Bennett with Andrew Clermont
2010 - “Jeff Beck with Ravi Shankar on the set of “O Brother where art thou”while dancing in Rio!”
Hot, adventurous, heart stirring, complex and soaring music and harmony, melding an astonishing array of instruments

and marrying Indian to Bluegrass, Samba to Curry, Irish to New Orleans, Baghdad & back to Burke 'n Beyond!

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BLUGURU also feature in Andrew Clermont's Supper Club - Live @ The Capitol! Double DVD!!
 
   A definitive Supper Club capture! Huge appreciation to the many involved
- and that's a real 40 ft screen presenting Tom Donald on the Piano
- as we launched our "London Abstractions" recording! (see just below)
- including a timely drop in from UK's The Roselly's  - thanks to Tamworth Music Shop mate, Thrifty for the heads up there !!



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London Abstractions 2011
Recorded in Putney, London - an improvisational treasure

- perfect for inspiring cooking or disappearing for a while!

"Lost in an exquisite foray, awashed on timeless cresting waves - such is the beauty of London Abstractions.
Exactly what was needed in these moments" Anarkali - Shepherds Ground, NSW




or DVD version
with 100 of my Big Pics series from mainly Australian scenes



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‘Live at The Supper Club’

78min of our most classic mid-year concert to date!
Featuring Dheeraj Shrestra (Dya Singh Group), The Lawnmowers, Mark Atkins
(Didgeridoo at the Athens Olympic Games), with Parris & PuYu Macleod.

At last, after 5 years and more of gathering performers under the guise
of "AC's Supper Club", we have it's first bold CD release (or more
specifically an official, by chance, 'bootleg'!).
The nights have been a kind of 'Fringe Club' to the Tamworth CM
Festival. A place where musicians like Oscar Awarded Sophie Raymond, Paul Wookey,
Peter Horan, Willie Qua (Galapagos Duck), George Washingmachine, Women in Docs,
Elizabeth Lord, Pat Drummond, Michael Fix, Sam McNally can relax or send other
players teetering on their guard rails of safety. Those who enjoy the taste of
fear (er.. flight!) as the music soars around them into unpredictable paths &
flavours have been gathering - up to 70 through the 15 shows in the week.
Now since 2002, there have been some mid year concerts to keep the
flame burning. These have leaned into more worldly zones with guests from Tibet,
Taiwan and Nepal as well as appearing at numerous schools & venues in the
700squarekm area of Tamworth, Armidale & Barraba.
October 2003 saw Andrew joining Dheeraj Shrestra (Tabla drums from
Dya Singh Group), Mark Atkins (Didg at Athens Games), Parris & PuYu Macleod
(perenial favourites on Piano & Flute) plus The Lawnmowers (see below) with local
drum whizz, Randall Wilson in a veritable 'quilt of expression'. The capture
is fresh, bold and soars as far as we've ever managed to go.
Mind you we can't call it squeaky clean, but there was just too much
fun to hide it away. 78mins of both kinds of music - Real & UnReal!

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1. Meeting of the Rivers - Sample (mp3)
2. Don't Sleep Too Deep!- Sample (mp3)
3. The Longing - Sample (mp3)
4. Rueben - Sample (mp3)
5. Light at the End of the Tunnel - Sample (mp3)
6. EMD - D - Sample (mp3)
7. The Quest - Sample (mp3)
8. Fly like a Bird - Sample (mp3)
9. Milk Cow Blues - Sample (mp3)
10. Daydreaming at Speed - Sample (mp3)
11. Wayfaring Stranger - Sample (mp3)
12. Storm Coming - Sample (mp3)
 

The Supper Club Trilogies from 2010 & 2012 -
3 amazing hours distilled from 30 hrs of performance through the Tamworth Festival week for both January 2010 & 2012!!
Much thanks to Chris Rogers for making the recordings possible.
A rich collection spread over 6 CDs!! Featuring over 50 performers and memories!
Only $95 for the whole set!! $60 for each trilogy! Or $25 for individual CDs
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Andrew Clermont's Supper Club 2010 Part One


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Andrew Clermont's Supper Club 2010 Part Two


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Andrew Clermont's Supper Club 2010 Part Three


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then 2 years later!!
Andrew Clermont's Supper Club 2012 Part One


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Andrew Clermont's Supper Club 2012 Part Two


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Andrew Clermont's Supper Club 2012 Part Three


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The Good Road - first release by The Lawnmowers - the cutting "Hedge" of bluegrass  :-)

The LawnMowersThe LawnMowers - The Good Road

Bluegrass has always held a special place in Andrew's heart as the many
visitors to the Tamworth Country Music Festival Bluegrass Breakfasts & Competions can attest.
For Andrew things started cooking bluegrass wise through his
mid-highschool English teacher, Geoff Bridgland and became the BlackMountain Boys. Soon
his brother Alex learnt Banjo & they were doing duo floorshows round Adelaide.
The Uni Folk Club pointed him to the Fountain Inn where he joined newgrass
band, Remnants, (the old tapes are not lost!). He also linked up with some young
acoustic adventurers and formed, Nuclear Shoes, with the experimentation he
persued the rest of his life. All this alongside vocal group, Shut the Gate,
with Peter Hisco while doing Mechanical Engineering? (Well guess what he ne'r
finished!).
Winning 3 Bluegrass Guitar Championships while pickin & grinnin across
the country with Brian Young; Golden Guitar Award & LP record (mid 80s) with the
Three Chord Wonders, a hot Live CD with BackBeat entering the 90s; touring
with the legendary Tom T Hall (USA) and then began tangling with multi-Banjo
Champ Dave Hellens over the next decade to finally form....
...at the cutting Hedge of Bluegrass!!!!.....a band with no sense of
humour!!....
Now available
"The Lawnmowers Combo CD" of selected tracks from The Good Road & Second Cut


1. Banjo Boy Chimes                      1:03  
2. Down the Road                        2:53
3. Devil's Dream                         3:03
4. EMD - David    Grisman                4:07
5. Foggy Mt Special                       2:18
6. Reuben     - Mark Atkins on Didgeridoo !   3:53
7. Little Maggie                          2:34
.8. Train 45                              2:42
9. Home Sweet Home                      3:13
          10. White Freight Liner- New Grass Revival    2:55           
11. Once Upon Arrival -Steve Berry         3:06
12. New Day    - Hellens                3:03
13. Smoothin Out The Jump - Clermont     3:21
14. Jump Up - Hellens                  2:51
15. Reflection - Hellens                   4:30
16. Wake Up - Clermont                  3:41
17. Eyes Open - Hellens                  3:16
18. A Minor Swing                      4:14

Dave Hellens - Banjo & Lead Voice, Rob Long - Guitar, Harmonies & Engineering ,
Andrew Clermont - Gilchrist Mandolin & Fiddles - 5-string from Epoch , 
Dougie Bull - Double Bass & Harmonies on 1 - 10 ,
Liz Frenchham - Double Bass on 11 - 18 ,
Tony Eyers - Harmonica ,
Lucy Langham - Flute    
  https://myspace.com/thelawnmowersbluegrass

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Happy as Larry by Andrew Clermont and Parris Macleod (2001)
Happy as Larry - Andrew Clermont (fiddle) and Parris Macleod (piano)
And a later cover!

The Story . . .

Happy As Larry is a soaring Piano & Fiddle CD with flavours of Celtic to New Age styles.

The Title track was nominated to the Golden Guitar Awards 2002


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The Tracks . . .

1. The Fun of the Chase, Take 1 - Sample (mp3)
2. Something On My Mind - Sample (mp3)
3. Drive - Sample (mp3)
4. Breath Easy - Sample (mp3)
5. Extreme Dreams - Sample (mp3)
6. Happy as Larry - Sample (mp3)
7. The Fun of the Chase, Take 2 - Sample (mp3)
8. Circles - Sample (mp3)
9. Remember - Sample (mp3)
10. Adrenalin - Sample (mp3)
11. Moving On - Sample (mp3)

 

Dance Of The Good Life by Andrew Clermont and Parris Macleod (2000)

Read the Review!

The Story . . .

Includes Top 5 Nomination for Best Instrumental in Golden Guitar Awards 2000 (trk 6 - Reeling In The Big One)
and music from "The Night of the Piano" (see Andrew's Supper Club). Copies now available.

The Tracks . . .

1. Who Trod On The Cat - Sample (mp3)
2. Dance Of The Good Life - Sample (mp3)
3. Round The Bend - Sample (mp3)
4. The Light At The End Of The Tunnel - Sample (mp3)
5. Buggerlug's Boogie - Sample (mp3)
6. Reeling In The Big One - Sample (mp3)
7. Three Mandolins - Sample (mp3)
8. Time Changes Me - Sample (mp3)
9. Lonely Fiddler - Sample (mp3)

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Bluegrass - Made In Taiwan - Live & Stormy (2000) - Andrew with Jenny Lester (Canada) & Daryl Jack Melbourne

Hey there! We put the band back together Nov 2019!!
After 25 years of sooo many other adventures, Jenny Lester returned to re-live the crazy 3 years which saw
6 or 700 shows of this group together in Taiwan - Leofoo Adventure Park!  http://jennylester.com


 
And this is not the Gold Coast :-) !

          A bit of history here!!  Joined by Wendy Jackson & Paul Wookey plus an armful of mainly Aussies for a while there!!
  
       Jenny went on to appearing with Hungry Hill who also came to Australia. She also created a great contribution to tutoring at Bluegrass Festivals for vocal harmony and Fiddle at Mark O'Connor Camps let alone a remarkable horse raising/ training property outside of Smithers in the heart of BC, Canada. Jenny had met Andrew at Pt Fairy Folk Festival (jamming with Trev Warner at the time as well) which ended up captured by documentary makers ever so coincidentally from Taiwan and as if by magic became part of the Bluegrass - Made in Taiwan - adventure.
      
       This was seeded by the extra coincidence that Jenny appeared at a very Bluegrassy party @ Beccy Coles place just as Daryl Melbourne received the call from Andrew (already in Taiwan) to seek players for this potentially long term contract in the mid 90s! Daryl saw Jenny there, made a rather fine bit of reasoning and grabbing Trev from Adelaide as well to follow on Andrew's invite to continue the Bluegrass contract in Taiwan.
    
       What followed in just 3 years and more than a dozen mainly Oz players was 3 to 4 shows a day. In fact Daryl (usually called Jack these days!) went on to perform close to 3000 shows through the ensuing decade! His time with The Fargone Beauties and before that with Tamworth's BackBeat, let alone his brothers thoughout the Oz outback saw him hone his reason to be right there. He set up a publishing house, Theatre restaurants, Pubs, Pizza Bar (naturally call Banjos) plus realised the beginnings of his own family. He still helps secure musical instruments for a major museum there as well. He's now includes Dobro into his instrumental prowess including his gift of the gab - not only highly entertaining on stage but regularly on show at the Beechworth foody sensation, Lemongrass Cafe.
      
        A soon to become major friend to all involved was Aron Mclean, who was first spotted in a CanCan show in the Leofoo Adventure Park and eventually returned to Oz as Double Bass and extra voice to The Pigs! He had variously teamed up with Jack Melbourne across various projects in Taiwan. Now mostly seen with Peter Denahy and based in Beechworth, he is very excited to see the years vanish and re-live this fun yet powerful show with the chameleon multi-instrumentalist Andrew Clermont who was born to cut loose in Bluegrass.
         
        Andrew has been constantly touring with The Apostle String Band (Mountaingrass kick-offs to Wirrina Bluegrass Fest)/ BluGuru (where world music ignites with Bluegrass)/ and 22 years of Andrew Clermont's Supper Club orchestra across the planet!
       
        All this will funnel back to the essence of four part harmonies and the many years of grace & musical family between them showing as one very seamless Bluegrass unit.  



      Plus the Original Show on CD as shown here above & below!!



The Short Story . . . Bluegrass - Live in Taiwan

A feast of Bluegrass recorded live at "The Barn",
Leofoo Village Adventure Park, Hsin Shu Country, Taiwan.
Only a typhoon or earthquake could stop the show
. . . and the weather came close . . .

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The Tracks . . .

1. Baton Rouge
2. Heart Of Gold
3. Y'all Come
4. Strong Enough To Bend
5. Country Roads
6. House Of The Rising Sun
7. Didgeridoo Blitz with Scotland
8. Sally Ann
9. Stay Young

  "Totally Gourdgeous" Totally Gourdgeous (2000)

"Joni Mitchell meets James Brown in Bob Marley's Pumpkin Patch via The Muppets!!"

Available through MGM


play only instruments made of Gourds!

Penelope Swales
- maker of the Gourdgeous instruments, songs, guitar. mandolin & Vocals
Mal Webb
- fretless bass, trumpet, mbira, vocals, songs & laryngeal gourdness
Carl Pannuzzo
- djembe, The Voice, foot rattle, percussion,guiro & guitar
Andrew Clermont
- violin, mandolin, guitar, vocals

All performed in totally gourdgeous ways! Naturally!

The Story . . .

Read all about the Totally Gourdgeous
Here's a few samples from the debut CD:

1. Turtle - Sample (mp3)
2. Jim the War Starts Now  
3. Bow Doubt  
4. Sister Gumshoe - Sample (mp3)
5. Falling Song  
6. Bike  
7. Miss You  
8. Brother  
9 Try Change - Sample (mp3)
10. Roofrack  
11. Aunty Betty  
12. Strangers & Foreigners  
13. Jabiluka  
14. Little Green Fruit  
15. Circles on the Ceilin  

Check out these links for earlier photos of the Gourdgeous ones:

Poster Montages (history!)

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for downloads
Also on Bandcamp: https://totallygourdgeous.bandcamp.com 


D'Vine - Totally Gourdgeous (2002)

available through MGM

1. Back in the Arms (Hanging with the Angels) - Sample (mp3)
2. Cup has no T - Sample (mp3)
3. Chains - Sample (mp3)
4. Forest Ranger - Sample (mp3)
5. Green - Sample (mp3)
6. Ringbark - Sample (mp3)
7. Bantam - Sample (mp3)
8. Ti - Skube - Sample (mp3)
9 Cope - Sample (mp3)
10. Brunswick St Cappuccino - Sample (mp3)
11. Meltdown at Indian Point - Sample (mp3)
12. Round & Round - Sample (mp3)
13. Lunatic  
14. Jacaranda  
15. Thank you  

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for downloads
Also on Bandcamp: https://totallygourdgeous.bandcamp.com 
 

CD 2005 Stroke of Midnight & CD PunKin 2011
available through MGM
or directly here via Contact Page


 
Anything at All
  Make Up
  Butterfly Ball
  Doesn't Matter Anymore

  Target Airconditioning
  Toilet Roll
  Spinach Inquisition
  Pole Sitter
  My Life
  Two & a Dog
  Ground Zero
  This Song
  Future Generations
  Song for Mai
  Arms of Eden


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for downloads
Also on Bandcamp: https://totallygourdgeous.bandcamp.com 



4th CD PunKin !  2011
available through MGM
 
Walkabout Waterbottle,
  Redefine
  Queen Bee
  We're Mostly Water
  Knees
  Cream
  Hold On
  17th Floor
  River
  Sweet Thing
  Tell Me Now
  Drop
  Take Me In


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for downloads
Also on Bandcamp: https://totallygourdgeous.bandcamp.com 



LATEST TG CD!! Gourd in the Act




The new Totally Gourdgeous single, “I Have a Dream” (a musical rendering of MLK’s speech), is released today through MGM distribution:

https://TotallyGourdgeous.lnk.to/ihaveadream . More about the song at http://malwebb.com/ihaveadream.html 


The album, "Gourd in the Act”, was released on Feb 2020, https://www.thegroovemerchants.com/Product/85593
Also on Bandcamp: https://totallygourdgeous.bandcamp.com 



THE TG DVDS!!

2007 DVD - The Bazaar Clips    A$25 - see youtube for samples 



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DVD  2014 - Shades of the Vine $30 - includes the epic "Packrack"! sample clips here

Recorded at Enrec Studio - Calala / Tamworth before a live audience.
Follow every moment up close!

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Latest DVD- The Ripe Stuff - released  DEC 2019 Sample here!


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Terra Australis (2000)Terra Australis - Australiana, produced, arranged, mixed and co-performed by Andrew Clermont

The Story . . .

Six piece Australiana, Bush and Good Times music. Winner of 'Battle of the Bush Bands' 1999 (as FowlHouse Jack). A vibrant recording,

released with Southland/Outback Music. Produced, arranged, mixed and co-performed by Andrew Clermont . . . . . .

The Tracks . . .

1. Wasn't That A Party - Sample (mp3)
2. Glenboro Wool - Sample (mp3)
3. Son Of The Southwind - Sample (mp3)
4. 50 Million Blowflies - Sample (mp3)
5. Dance Dance Dance - Sample (mp3)
6. The Whale - Sample (mp3)
7. Country Drag - Sample (mp3)
8. Throw Me A Line - Sample (mp3)
9. The Naked Piper - Sample (mp3)
10. Lachlan Tigers - Sample (mp3)
11. Capricorn Rain - Sample (mp3)
12. Ryebuck Shearer - Sample (mp3)
 

 


Home Grown #2 (1987)

The Story . . .

One of a series of three albums released in the early days where Andrew includes other new artists in each production.

However, on this CD (originally on Cassette!) , Clermont plays everything with equal fervor and clean technique -

a serious collectors item featuring the Bluegrass Guitar Championship pieces as indicated below . . . . .

The Tracks . . .

1. Let's Have Some Fun - Maguire's Pub Scenario
2. Lonesome Day - Win in 1984
3. Brickwall Fantasia - Stephen Berry influence
4. Red Wine - Lonely winters by the fire
5. Dusty Miller - Win in 1987
6. Big Mob - Runner-up in 1986
7. Rocket Pilots - Fiddle Mania
8. State Of Mind - About people
9. Apple Butter - Win in 1985
10. Just Like That - The way it happened
11. Doc Wyland's Reel - Dede of the Highlands & Corte Madera
12. I'm Alright - Can&##39;t live without 'em, can't live with 'em
13. Ground Zero - Poem by Micheal Dransfield
14. Soddy Daisy - Win in 1985
15. Blacktown - Bothy Band influence

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BACKBEAT - The Sessions (1990)



Featuring:
'Radical' Rick Ide on 5 string Bass;
Daryl Melbourne on 5 string Stelling Banjo, Lead and Backup vocals;
Andrew Clermont on Fiddle, Mandolin, 5 string Electric Violin, Lead and Backup vocals;
Bruce Priddis on 5 piece Drum kit; and
Brian Dover on Lead Vocals, Harmonies, Songs and Acoustic Guitar (he'd like a 5-string though).

The Story . . .

Recorded live and late at Tathra Studio (Moore Creek), October 1990.

All instruments and voices recorded in stereo for stage sensoround reproduction.

We put forward our best collective foot, left in laughs & jives plus a good dose of music of the moment.
After a year or so Ben Wordsworth eventually replaced Bruce Priddis on drums



Here in an excerpt from Clermont's 20 Year Supper Club Photo Almanac Book

The Tracks . . .

1. She's Long (Blue Yodel - Jimmy Rogers) - Sample (mp3)
2. The Outlaw (J. Bolotin) - Sample (mp3)
3. Working Man (B. Dover) - Sample (mp3)
4. One Way Track (Ricky Scaggs/Wes Golding) - Sample (mp3)
5. The Loner (B. Dover)  
6. Better Slow Down (B. Dover)  
7. Say Goodbye (P. Burton)  
8. Vamp In The Middle (John Hartford) - Sample (mp3)
9. Get In The Wind (G. Place) - Sample (mp3)
10. Forest Ranger (Green) - Sample (mp3)
11. You Don't Think About Me (Stept/Palmer/Clear) - Sample (mp3)
12. Higher Ground (B. Dover) - Sample (mp3)
13. Magnificent Seven (Elmer Bernstein) - Sample (mp3)
14. Great Balls Of Fire (Otis Blackwell) - Sample (mp3)
15. Changes (B. Dover) - Sample (mp3)
16. Flying Low (B. Dover) - Sample (mp3)

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Didgeridoo Interlude - Alastair Black (1996)

Didgeridoo Interlude - Alastair Black (didgeridoo), Andrew Clermont (violin, mandolin, dulcimer), Stephan Richter (cello, bass), Craig Laruisten (percussion, flute)
Featuring:
Alastair Black on Didgeridoo;
Stephan Richter on Cello & Fretless Bass;
Andrew Clermont on Violin, Mandolin & Dulcimer; and
Craig Lauristen on Percussion & Harmonic Flute.

Pretty hard to get a copy of at the mo!

The Story . . .

This album combines the different worlds of Australian Didgeridoo, European Strings and Afro-American influenced Percussion in a completely improvised exploration of the spirit of nature. The spontaneous flow of music takes the listener on a journey through a collection of aural landscapes, each featuring a unique combination of melody, rhythm and emotion. Each journey is separated by a solo didgeridoo interlude which acts as a narration of the following soundscape.
 


The Tracks . . .

1. Clouds of Carpentaria 8. Interlude 4
2. Interlude 1 9. Shadowland
3. Return To Dawn 10. Interlude 5
4. Interlude 2 11. Teritories
5. Another Way Home 12. Interlude 6
6. Interlude 3 13. Dunes
7. Against The Flow 14. Interlude 7
    15. Moonraze
 

The Longing (1997)

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The Story . . .

In recent times I have taken to writing a Xmas wRap - stories and the odd detail - covering the year's mischief and wanderings. Before you is a slice across this past decade or more. A rememberance of journeys, places, people met, families extended and the music which gathered it together or set it apart.
Beyond my guitar, mandolin, fiddle or vocals you'll hear "me mates" cut loose in their own style. For some it was a case of bringing the mountain to Muhammad. Two large reels of 2" 24 track tape, did the lap of Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney twice before the contributions from friends drew to a close. Well it had to stop sometime in the two and a half years since Richard Porteous first approached me at Tamworth's Longyard Hotel. He'd said, "its time to record . . ."

The Tracks . . .

1.
The Crest of Gilmont - (Clermont & Gilbert)
- Sample (mp3)
2. Julia Creek - (O'Hara Murphy) - Sample (mp3)
3. Letters From Home (Dear Daddy) - (A., M. & S. Clermont) - Sample (mp3)
4. The Longing (Clermont) - Sample (mp3)
5. Stay Young (Gallagher & Lyle, Clermont) - Sample (mp3)
6. Once Upon Arrival (Berry) - Sample (mp3)
7. Song of Bernadette (Cohen) - Sample (mp3)
8. Lights on the Hill (Dusty & McKean) - Sample (mp3)
9. The Sweetest Song I Sing (O'Brien) - Sample (mp3)
10. Ya-Be-Dah! (Berry) - Sample (mp3)

To order CD email andrewclermont@gmail.com or go to Contact Page

Fiddlers Festival Live (1997)

Fiddlers Festival Live 1997

The Story . . .

The Shortest, Fattest, Thinnest, Tallest 4 Fiddlers together for a photo shoot re Red Faces entry all wearing Pink Ballerina Tutus.....  Well, that's where it started anyway. Ten years later they did their first Gig together and then since performed across Australia into HongKong, Japan and who knows when where else. But they always start the year at Tamworth Country Music Festival where you'll see Clermont still joining Marcus Holden, Clare O'Meara, Mark Oats, Gary Steel and beyond. This CD has most of the original line up with  Clermont behind the scenes playing much of the Bass as well. A warm, emotional CD with a good deal of fine 'sawing'

The Tracks . . .

1. Minstrel Boy, Scaley Devils
2. Carthy's March, Lemon Tree
3. Rose of San Antone
4. Give Me Your Hand
5. Slow Boat to China
6. Danny Boy
7. Red-Haired Boy Set
8. Trade Winds
9. Ashplant Set
10. Talkin' Balkan
11. Adagio For Solo Violin
12. Dion Reel, Mouth of the Tobique
13. Ashokan Farewell
 
New Release: - Get Reel

– More amazing tracks from the fun team.
 


Discography & Productions through the years
CDs
(DVDs further below)

1."Homegrown" (Played everything multi track Solo - Cass) Jan 1985
2. member to Three Chord Wonders "Try Change" (Record/ Cass & Late 90s Collectors CD LTD Edition)1985 with Lawrie Minson & John Green
3. produced Brian Young's "Big Fella Wudumbah" (Cass) 1986
4. Homegrown Vol. 2 (Played everything multi track Solo - Cass) 1987 - CD version now available
5. produced Cedar Creek's "... from the Heart" Bluegrass Cass 1989 (while nursing a slashed finger tip!)
6. produced & played bass on The Trailblazers (Harry Trails & Bob Blazers!) -self titled - Comedy Cass 1989
7.produced with Paul Henderson and member to, BackBeat (Rockin' Bluegrass) "...the sessions" (Tamworth Underground Tapes Vol 1) 1990 Cassette CD re-release 1997
8. produced & played on Bob Stewart's "Mountains of Queenstown" Cass1990
9. produced & played on Brian Winter's "Jesus was a Swaggie" CD/ Cass 1991
10. produced & played on Liz Crago's "Homeward" CD/ Cass 1993
11. produced & played on Bill Murray's "Children of the Dreamtime" CD 1995
12. Collaboration on "Didgeridoo Interludes" with Alistar Black, Stephan Richter & Craig Lauritson 1996
13. Member to Fiddlers Festival - "Live” CD 1996 with Ray Schloeffel, Marcus Holden, Mark Oats, Carolyn Trengrove, George Washingmachine, 1997
14. Solo & friends “The Longing” CD 1997 via Richard Porteous & ABC
15. produced & member to “Terra Australis” Self titled (originally FowlHouse Jack) 1998
16. produced and member to BLUEGRASS – Made In Taiwan : Live & Stormy – featuring Jenny Lester (Canada), Daryl (Jack ) Melbourne & Clermont. (Official Bootleg!) Recorded 1997 Released 2000
17. Partnership in the Instrumental movie score style adventure “Dance of the Good Life” Dueling with the amazing Parris MacLeod (piano/drums/bass) 2000
18. Partnership in “Happy As Larry” Clermont & Parris Macleod. Violin & Piano duets. Instrumentals of Celtic to New Age flavour 2002
19. Member to Dya Singh “Bandagi” 2001- World Music Group with Dya Singh, Keith Preston, Dheeraj Shrestra, Parvyn, Jamel & Harsel Kaur & Quentin Eyers
20. member to Fiddlers Festival “Strung Out” - Holden, Clermont, Oats, Clare O'Meara & Garry Steel 2002
20a. member to Fiddlers Festival -"Live in Japan" 2002
21. member to Dya Singh “300” 2002 
22. member to Totally Gourdgeous debut CD with Penelope Swales, Mal Webb, Carl Pannuzzo 2000
23. member to Totally Gourdgeous “D’vine” 2002
24. producer of Healing & meditation, from partner Pauline - ‘Songs for the Soul’ and now on Video as well, featuring Pauline’s Art designs 1999
25. producer of “Let the Sun in You Shine Through” - Pauline . A Healing CD with meditation based on recovering from Abuse 2002
26. producer of “Child of Light” – Pauline . A Red Indian (First Nation) style meditation journey with cedar flute, healing drum & chanting. 2003
27. member to Fiddlers Festival - “Get Reel” 2004
28. Director of Andrew Clermont's Supper Club Oct 2003 - Official Bootleg
29. member to The Lawnmowers - "The Good Road" 2003
30. member to Totally Gourdgeous - "Stroke of Midnight" 2005
31. member to Fiddlers Festival - "Friendzy" 2005
32. member to Dya Singh - "Live 2005"
33. member to The Lawnmowers "Second Cut" 2006
34. member to BluGuru - "Ragas 2 Blu Riches" 2010
35. Producer to Andrew Clermont's Supper Club Trilogy 2010
36. Member to Totally Gourdgeous - "PunKin"  2011
37. Producer to Andrew Clermont's Supper Club Trilogy 2012
38. Producer to Cherry Pickers - "Southern Flavour" 2016
39. Member to Zen Tripitalia - self titled - Chris Blyth (Scot/Germany), Clermont & guest 2016
40. Producer, engineer & co-player for Delia Olam - "Who is Tahirih?" 2017
41. Producer to Golden Fiddle Show Live @ The Capitol 2018
42. Member to Totally Gourdgeous - "Gourd in the Act!" 2019

43. Producer to Kate Battersby's - "City Girl Gone Bush" 2020
44. Producer to Henk Groot's - "Backwater Dreaming" 2020

45. Producer to (with Quentin Eyers) Redgum Radio - John Memery : The Story-telling Sessions  & Talking in Tongues 2022

46. Producer to Jack Moore "What Elephant?" 2023


 Videos / DVDs

1. A Crash Course to Fiddling (or Mandolin/Didgeridoo/Guitar) Freedom VID 2000

2. Fiddlers Festival - Live in Japan 2002 DVD

3. Yarra Junction Fiddlers Convention 20 Year Celebration 2002 VID

4. Totally Gourdgeous “ Live Cuts from the Vine” 2003 VID/DVD

4. The Supper Club Hightlights 2004 VID/ DVD
5. The Supper Club 2005 DVD series - 13 DVDs in all !!! up to 3 camera angles and up close on stage.

6. The Big Pics DVD - Join Clermont with his around the World collection of landscape shots with accompanying Music from 'Happy as Larry'

7. The Bazaar Clips - Totally Gourdgeous - Woodford 2007/8

8. London Abstractions 2011 - Tom Donald & Mark Buckingham (UK - Piano & Clarinets),
Mal Webb & Andrew Clermont (Oz - Gourd fretless Bass & Gourdalin/ Electic Violin)
including 100 panoramas from Clermont's "Big Pics" Photography

9. The Supper Club - Live @ The Capitol - Double DVD with images off 4 video cameras & 3 still cameras - Steve Newton, Sunnypics, Peter R Brown, Thomas Rosenzweig,
           Performances from BluGuru, Brookie Schiemer (now Gillett), Steve Ahern, Tom Donald, Emily Little, Jess Stocker and special guests who drove into town by chance that day, The Rosellys, from UK
     All at the Tamworth Capitol Theatre 2011

10. Totally Gourdgeous - Shades of the Vine - Live @ Enrec Studio, Calala, Tamworth, NSW 2014

11.Totally Gourdgeous new DVD - The Ripe Stuff - Live @ Brisbane's West End 2016
- produced by Matt Moline (STONEGROUND PRODUCTIONS)
Released after Steve Newton Mastering 2019


Introducing the Workshop DVDs
with Andrew Clermont

Andrew Clermont Presents - A Crash Course in...
 
Guitar (DVD) Mandolin (DVD) Fiddle (DVD) Digeridoo (DVD)
Intro- The Pick
Wrist & Pick
Arm & Relax
Pick Rhythms
Stretching
Fret Hand & Strum
Into Bass Runs
Better Strum
Nimble Fingers
More Dexterity
Scales!
Picks again
Speed
Rhythm Dynamics
G run
String Break
Tuning
Rhythm Machine
Accents
More Tuning
Intervals
Ideas
Picking patterns
Extras
And
Last Fling
CDs etc
 

Soundtracks included:
Various from 'Dance of the Good Life' with Parris Macleod

Beginning
Peck the Pick
Useful D scale
Finger Placement
Pick Control
Relaxing the Pick
Irish trill
More D scale
Melody Shapes
Back to Basics
Cross Picking
Speed Exercises
Tremolo
Appeggios
Chord Rhythms
Intervals
CDs to Buy



 

Soundtracks included:
Two and a Dog & Spinach Inquisition - Totally Gourdgeous
3 Mandolins - 'Dance of the Good Life'

Intro
Loosening up the Body
Holding the Bow & Violin
Loosening up the Hands
Accents for Bow Shuffles
Bow wrist movements
The Shuffle
The Note Intervals
Rhythms
More Shuffles
'Possum Up a Gum Stump'
Various Licks 1
Various Licks 2
Various Licks 3
Trills
Eb & G minor
For Fun
Revising Note Intervals
Wrap Up & CDs


 

Soundtracks included:
Various Fiddle pieces from 'Happy as Larry' featuring Parris Macleod on Piano
 

G'day
The Lips
Circular Breathing
The Essential Circle
With Didg
Tone Changes
Breathing recap
Rhythm
Rhythm 2
Didg Talking
Mid Summary
Long Breath
All together
Low Tone
Other Didgeridoos
Harmonic Trumpeting
Big Didg & Pitch
Wrap Up

 

Soundtracks included:
'Didgeridoo Blitz with Scotland' (fiddle tune played by Jenny Lester)) - Live in Taiwan
'The Crest of Gilmont' - The Longing

 


 

       
 
“A Crash Course to Fiddling Freedom” - a tiny sample
    
Mandolin Technique - a tiny sample
 
 

Guitar Technique - a tiny sample



    
   

Digeridoo Lessons - a tiny sample
         
 
The Tuition DVDs typically include

with Bluegrass to Folk - Rock - Country - a grab of Jazz - a twist o' lime!
A great guide to breaking out from classical bonds!

Containing what would normally spread through about 4 visits,
this one lesson will take you a long way.
Note: the Focus is on How to Play the Music, not the tunes themselves. The tools with which to craft the music.

Catering also for those simply starting out, this one is for all-comers. “It’s like I’m patiently there to show you over & over till you’ve got it.
 

Special bonus: YOU GET TO ORDER YOUR OWN LESSON!
Yep, send me back your questions or ideally return this DVD with yourself videoed and I’ll send back your next steps to take! It’ll be that easy.

All other instruments will be attended as orders are taken in “Crash Courses for . . .”
You name it, we’ll show you how - APPLYING SPECIALISTS IN THEIR FIELD

 

DVDs are $50 (DidgDVD $30)- including 1st Bonus Lesson & enough steps for 5 lessons or more - great value!

To order DVDs email andrewclermont@gmail.com or go to Contact Page
 

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