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Curtis Andrews is a percussionist/composer/teacher with global persuasions. A recognized player of most styles of music (African, jazz, Indian, country, rock, free improv) he performs and records with a wide variety of groups and artists. His studies have taken him to the villages and metropolises of Ghana, India, South Africa and Zimbabwe, and he has developed a deep knowledge of the history/performance of music from these areas. His prime mentors are (late) Don Wherry, Trichy Sankaran and Frederick Kwasi Dunyo. A leader in his field, he recently released his first album of original music entitled “The Offering of Curtis Andrews”.

Debut album “The Offering of Curtis Andrews” by Curtis Andrews, released initially in small quantites in Newfoundland - January 2009. As a result of his recent press regarding his ECMA nomination - just short of one year later is now available in record stores coast to coast and across the U.S.

His first record entitled “The Offering of Curtis Andrews”, a collection of 12 original pieces that draw from his studies and travels in Asia, Africa and at home in North America. Already it is gaining steady praise as some of the most original and refreshing music to come out of Newfoundland in a long, long time. Consisting of drumset, percussion, mridangam (South Indian classical drum), Ewe percussion (West African), electric bass, electric guitar, trumpet, alto/tenor sax, flute, vibraphone and Fender Rhodes, the pieces themselves range from the virtuosic and mind-bending to soothing and meditative. Listen with open ears, mind and heart and you will not be disappointed.