Andy has a large and varied repertoire which is continually growing ("If a song grabs me, I'll try to arrange it for me to perform and then play it."), with influences which range from the likes of Nic Jones, Richard Thompson and Joni Mitchell through to Fats Waller and Hoagey Carmichael and many musicians and singers between. He's a lover of open guitar tunings, blaming this on the fact that nobody told him how you should tune a guitar until it was too late, and you'll find him moving effortlessly between tunings throughout his set. Getting everyone singing is, he believes, an essential part of any folk event and he has collected lots of songs with very singable choruses as you'll discover whenever Andy is performing.
Andy Wall is a well-respected singer, guitarist and performer active on the UK folk scene for more than four decades now. Starting with under age visits to the Three Cranes Folk Club in Sheffield this was followed by long stints performing around Leicester, Bournemouth and the New Forest, East Yorkshire, Burton on Trent, Shropshire and the West Midlands and appearances at festivals far and wide. Over the years, Andy has also played in France, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, Australia and South Africa.
For the last ten years and more Andy has been based in Cambridgeshire, where he has been closely involved in running the Ely Folk Club and the Ely Folk Festival (formerly Ely Folk Weekend) as well as playing gigs and floorspots at many folk clubs and festivals across the country with the occasional headline performance.
2008 saw Andy finally go into the recording studio, resulting in an album of 15 songs spanning the whole of his time as a folk performer. This was released in mid January 2009.
Andy can be contacted at: andy@walltowallfolk.com
Check out the Wall to Wall website at www.walltowallfollk.com
