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About Me

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In five short years, Andru Bemis has wandered the ends, edges and in-betweens of North America more times than he can count. Traveling mostly by passenger train -- occasionally by bus or by thumb -- he's logged hundreds of thousands of miles performing his original songs almost nightly with a beat-up classical guitar, an equally ill-kempt banjo, and an occasional fiddle or banjo ukulele. When he's not riding the rails, Bemis' greatest joys are watching fruit trees bloom, practicing ragtime fiddle tunes, paddling around in little boats and recording himself and others on his old multitrack reel-to-reel.
Andru is a founding member of Ground Vinyl Records , a collectively owned record label featuring independent folk and acoustically minded artists from throughout the US and Canada.
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- YouTube.com (videos)
For information regarding booking and promotions, please see Andru's tour worksheet and electronic press kit at booking.andrubemis.com . All other questions and comments may be emailed directly to [email protected] .

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/1/2006
Band Website: andrubemis.com
Band Members: Andru Bemis ,
Forty Thieves,
& some tramps
Sounds Like: How Big Is Tacoma
Eleven
(2006) - $11.00

7" colored vinyl & 15-song bonus CD! Limited edition of 1,111. Andru plays fiddle, dulcimer, banjo, guitar, and lord-knows what else .... includes How Big Is Tacoma, Cereal At Night and Mountain And The Moon. w/ Jason Webley!Rail To Reel
Wepecket Island
(2006) - $14.98

Andru interprets traditional tunes and a handful of originals on the banjo, guitar and banjo-ukulele. Forty Thieves and a few tramps play, sing, stomp, stamp and holler along. Includes Two Dollar Bill, Curtains of Night and Banjolele.Singer
Ground Vinyl
(2004) - $15.00

Fourteen tunes featuring the Forty Thieves on mandolin, upright bass, pump organ and other non-electric instruments. Andru plays the banjo, guitar and sewing machine. Includes I'm Chasing The Moon and Beulah.Plays Past His Bedtime
Ground Vinyl
(2002) - $15.00

Captured live in one evening at the Vinyl Underground, Andru's studio in West Chicago, Illinois. Eighteen intimate songs on guitar and voice. Features the original recordings of Huck Finn, Ivah and Your Town.

Record Label: Ground Vinyl / Wepecket Island / Eleven Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Gen-rul Man-uh-jer on der Banjer

Once upon a brilliant day I moved m'computer and my maps and my Amtraknational timetable to a wee table at a theatre in mah town. From this spotI wuz to plan mah trips and travails fer the coming year...
Posted by Andru Bemis on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 12:41:00 PST

Northeast & Midwest shows in June!!

Upcoming shows in the Northeast and Midwest, including a few dates with New York City's best dressed two-man band, the Two Man Gentlemen Band. Free kazoos for all!!If any of you wanna put together a s...
Posted by Andru Bemis on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 11:10:00 PST

Win a free train trip!!

(Dunno why ye're getting this quite infrequent, occasionally heartfelt, yet terribly long newsletter? Perhaps you met a banjo player at some time who strong-armed you into putting yer email address in...
Posted by Andru Bemis on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:39:00 PST

Andru's Leetle House on the Ray-Dee-Oh

http://glrc.org/story.php3?story_id=3358 - Public Radio interview with Andru Bemis about living in a tiny house.
Posted by Andru Bemis on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 03:11:00 PST

The Lonely Arranger Writes Again

It's seven years after the millenium, and several facts have come to my attention: a) 'Away In A Manger' can be improved by replacing "Lord Jesus" with "lone ranger." b) Dece...
Posted by Andru Bemis on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 04:01:00 PST

FREE DOWNLOAD - NS*Radio w/ Liam Carey

12 Nov 2006 @ Northern Star Radio w/ Liam Carey
Posted by Andru Bemis on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:13:00 PST

Princeton, NJ

Yesterday, I traded a few songs fer a tetanus shot in a decommisioned nuclear reactor. Today, I wore a hole in the seat of my pants and won a parallel set of scars from a pokey bush at the Pine Barren...
Posted by Andru Bemis on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 05:21:00 PST

New York, NY

New York is a city in code, and New Yorkers are the key. The Monday night open mic at the SideWalk Bar is at least as good as advertised. 'Cept the drinks ain't cheap, and there's a two-drink minimum,...
Posted by Andru Bemis on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:13:00 PST

Two New Videos!!

Thanks to Tim & Mike for these videos: - 21 Oct 2006 @ Downtown Records, Lafayette, IN - 19 Oct 2006 @ Cocoa Perk, Hershey, PA...
Posted by Andru Bemis on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 02:23:00 PST

Have banjo. Will travel.

Hello, it's yer itchy-footed friend Andru again. I'm in Virginia fora couple shows this weekend (see schedule below, or visit http://calendar.andrubemis.com ), after which I'll head up the coastand We...
Posted by Andru Bemis on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 09:10:00 PST