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Hailing from Bolton in the north of England, Andrea Glass is a singer-songwriter. Her style is part folk, part Americana. Her lyrics are poignant and reflective, telling tales real and imagined.
Andrea’s love of music started at an early age. She began playing guitar when she was so small that she couldn’t reach the bass strings to play full chords. A brief stint playing borrowed brass instruments and keyboards ended when she rediscovered the guitar at age 14. She then committed herself to learning to play full chords and copying her favourite songs.
Andrea left school without any plans - “I was so preoccupied with my love of music and being with my friends that I never really gave a thought to what I would do with the rest of my life. I just thought something would happen at some point that would decide for me. I was just waiting around.” Then her father died suddenly, just weeks after her 16th birthday. “I barely left the house for a year. I just stayed up all night, drawing and listening to Bob Harris.”
The late night drawing sessions eventually got her into night classes and throughout the late 1990’s Andrea made tentative steps on the local music scene playing covers at parties, open mike nights, doing backing vocals with local bands and soon running her own open mike night. “To go from not being able to leave the house to singing in front of a crowd was a big deal for me and I really got the bug.”
After a short stay in Liverpool, Andrea decided to move to London to complete her degree. “It just felt like the right thing to do. I wanted to challenge myself by getting away from the familiar, give myself some space to grow and look at things from a different angle.”
Andrea’s love of music started at an early age. She began playing guitar when she was so small that she couldn’t reach the bass strings to play full chords. A brief stint playing borrowed brass instruments and keyboards ended when she rediscovered the guitar at age 14. She then committed herself to learning to play full chords and copying her favourite songs.
Andrea left school without any plans - “I was so preoccupied with my love of music and being with my friends that I never really gave a thought to what I would do with the rest of my life. I just thought something would happen at some point that would decide for me. I was just waiting around.” Then her father died suddenly, just weeks after her 16th birthday. “I barely left the house for a year. I just stayed up all night, drawing and listening to Bob Harris.”
The late night drawing sessions eventually got her into night classes and throughout the late 1990’s Andrea made tentative steps on the local music scene playing covers at parties, open mike nights, doing backing vocals with local bands and soon running her own open mike night. “To go from not being able to leave the house to singing in front of a crowd was a big deal for me and I really got the bug.”
After a short stay in Liverpool, Andrea decided to move to London to complete her degree. “It just felt like the right thing to do. I wanted to challenge myself by getting away from the familiar, give myself some space to grow and look at things from a different angle.”
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She came to my school recently and did a songwriting workshop. Defintely helpful and a great musician.
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