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Andy Cartmells Acoustic Explosion

About Me

Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn't a song that anybody else wrote. It has it's own melody, it has its own words. Very few people get to sing their own song. Most of us fear that we cannot do it justice with our voices ot that our words are too foolish or too honest or too odd. So people live their songs instead. -Neil Gaiman/// / / / Growing up in a home with a lot of music set the stage for Andrew's lifelong obsession with music. His First instrument was the trumpet in the third and fourth grade. By fifth grade he had moved on to piano and spent almost three years taking private piano lessons. In middle school, Andrew picked up the guitar and never looked back. Andrew has now been playing the guitar for over twenty years. Now a staple on the Brevard acoustic music scene, Andrew can been seen playing his eclectic blend of pop, rock, folk and jazz all over the county. Last year he played over ninety shows in the Central Florida area and the Bahamas. Andrew is available as a solo act, a duo or with The Johnny Shameless Project for private parties, public events, weddings, bars and restaurants. Andrew is also the lead guitarist for Simone, an original modern rock project that is currently touring Florida to support it's most recent CD.

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Member Since: 30/04/2007
Band Members: I mostly play solo but sometimes you can see me with Anthony Darmana from the Melbourne Drum Tribe, Local 518 and Nuclear Umbrella. I also play with Matt Brown and on occasion with Eric Hutchins in our duo -Monkeyfinger. You can also see me perform in central Florida at various location with the cover band The Johnny Shameless Project . I am also the lead guitarist for Simone (http://www.simonesongs.com), on original modern rock project currently touring Florida in support of it's newest CD.
Influences: Chet Atkins, The Allman Brothers, Tommy Emmanuel, Joe Pass, Eric Hutchins, Frank Zappa, Paul Simon, Wes Montgomery, Jerry Garcia, Sam Pacetti, Lou Reed, Jimi Hendrix, Keller Williams, Zane Cherron, Richard Powell, Tom Houston
Sounds Like: Keller WIlliams meets John Mayer meets Jimi Hendrix?

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Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

So if it's the Acoustic Explosion, why are you playing the electric guitar?

The current pic I've posted is of me playing with Simone at The Central Station Rock Bar in Orlando.So a little over a year ago I started dabbling in the black arts of the electric (gasp!) guitar.  It...
Posted by on Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:40:00 GMT

Harvest Jam

Mark you calander for the big music fest. in October out in Holipaw.  It's called Harvest Jam and its a 12 hour music event followed by camping w/ drum circle.  There will be 2 stages and it...
Posted by on Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:42:00 GMT

Perfect Tuesday

So it looks as if I will be playing guitar for the band Perfect Tuesday starting next month sometime.  Their old lead guitarist is about to have a baby and needs some time off and it seems like a...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:53:00 GMT

New Music

I'm fairly pleased at the quality of some of this live recording of my duo, Monkeyfinger.   The only problem I've run into is that all the songs are rediculously  long.  We'll...
Posted by on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:59:00 GMT