Andy Cutting

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Andy Cutting, 2016

Andy Cutting (born March 18, 1969 in Harrow / London , United Kingdom) is an English folk musician and composer. He plays the diatonic accordion and is known for composing and playing traditional English folk music as well as his own pieces. His compositions combine English and French traditions with other influences. He was three times the winner of the "Folk Musician of the Year Award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards". He was involved in around 50 music albums, both as a solo artist and in collaboration with other musicians. He is married and has three children.

Life

Cutting began playing the diatonic accordion as a teenager. After a few months he was invited to play in a local Céilí band. In 1988 he joined the influential and innovative band Blowzabella. Cutting released an album (Vanilla) with Blowzabella before he left the band in 1990. Their repertoire, a mixture of traditional English and central French music, as well as music from Eastern Europe, had a great influence on Cutting. In 2003 Blowzabella celebrated its 25th anniversary. Cutting was there again as an official member. In 2007 they released the album "Octomento".

Andy Cutting backstage at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

In 1989 Cutting partnered with Chris Wood, whom he had met two years earlier at the Sidmouth Festival. For several years the two toured extensively and created five music albums together. Wood introduced cutting to the richness of Quebec music. Both shared a love for English and French dance music. Wood and Cutting, along with Karen Tweed and Ian Carr, formed the "Two Duos Quartet". The result was the album " Half as happy as we" .

Tweed and Cutting also played as a duo. They released an album together and contributed to the live CD " Across the Waters" , which was recorded in 1994 at the University of Cork.

Cutting regularly works as a session musician with artists as diverse as Sting , June Tabor and Chumbawamba . He was a member of several bands. In addition to the Wood & Cutting Duo, he is a member of the Trio 1651 (with Mark Emerson and Tim Harries ), the John McCusker Band, the Kate Rusby Trio and the Kate Rusby Band. He is also a popular workshop tutor.

In March 2011 Cutting was involved in the Cecil Sharp Project, a joint commission of the Shrewsbury Folk Festival and EFDSS. He and seven other musicians took part in the week-long project to create new works for Cecil Sharp. Cecil Sharp was the founding father of the folk song revival in England.

Martin Simpson Trio (all five musicians) at the Cambridge Folk Festival (cutting, back left)

Andy Cutting is part of Leveret, along with Sam Sweeney and Rob Harbron. The trio was formed in 2014 and has been described by The Guardian as "magical" and cutting as an "accordion virtuoso". Leveret's album " Inventions" was one of the top three albums of the year at The Arts Desk . Leveret has been described as a band creating remarkably new English instrumental music.

Cutting is also performing and recording with guitarist Martin Simpson and fiddle player Nancy Kerr . Her debut CD " Murmurs" was named one of the best folk albums of 2015 by The Telegraph . They have been described as three of Britain's finest musicians and performers of songs and melodies, each of them recognized virtuosos.

In 2015 Cutting founded the new Anglo-French band Topette.

At the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards , Cutting won the Folk Music Award of the Year three times: 2008, 2011 and 2016.

Compositions

Cutting has composed many melodies, several of which have also been set to music by other artists. Some have been added to the music session repertoire. His compositions include the following pieces.

  • Alltfechan
  • Brakes
  • Commoner's Lot
  • Flatworld
  • Heidi Hendy
  • In Continental Mood
  • I Like You, You're Common
  • I only want a snack
  • It's a square word
  • Lady Gray
  • Lola Flexen
  • Miss Lindsay Barker
  • New tires
  • Oakleigh
  • Oliver's
  • Ricer
  • Round the corner
  • St Michael's Mount
  • Seven Years
  • Spaghetti Panic
  • The Abbess
  • The Bay Tree
  • The History Man
  • The RSB
  • The Walled Garden Waltz
  • There are angels
  • To the Edges
  • Two beers
  • Waltz Harry Lane
  • Waiting for Janet

Incomplete discography

  • Vanilla ( Blowzabella ) - Special Delivery - SPDCD 1028 (1990)
  • Chris Wood & Andy Cutting - RUF Records RUFCD01
  • Lisa (Wood & Cutting) - RUF Records RUFCD02
  • Live at Sidmouth (Wood & Cutting) - RUF Records RUFCD03
  • Lusignac (Wood & Cutting) - RUF Records RUFCD04
  • Half as happy as we (Two Duos Quartet) - RUF Records RUFCD07
  • Knock John (Wood & Cutting) - RUF Records RUFCD08
  • A new tradition (Tanteeka) - Osmosys Records OSMO CD013 (1997)
  • Panic at the Café (Andy Cutting and Nigel Eaton, 1993) - Beautiful Jo Records BEJOCD-27 (1999)
  • Ca 'Nôs (Fernhill) - Beautiful Jo Records BJOCD-14
  • Llatai (Fernhill) - Beautiful Jo Records BJOCD-23
  • Whilia (Fernhill) - Beautiful Jo Records BJOCD-30
  • Cast a bell (1651) - Beautiful Jo Records BEJOCD-33 (2001)
  • One Roof Under (Tweed & Cutting) - Fyasco Records FYC004 (2002)
  • Across the Waters (with Karen Tweed and others) - Nimbus NI5415 (1994)
  • Pandemonium (Nigel Eaton) - Beautiful Jo Records BEJOCD-39 (2002)
  • 10 ( Kate Rusby ) - Pure Records PRCD10 (2002)
  • Apples ( June Tabor ) - Topic Records TSCD 568
  • Hold Your Horses (Ella Edmondson) - Monsoon MONMUCD001 (2009)
  • Andy Cutting (Andy Cutting) - Lane Records LANECD01 (2010)
  • New Anything (Leveret) (2015)
  • Murmurs (Martin Simpson, Nancy Kerr and Andy Cutting) - Topic Records (2015)
  • In The Round (Leveret) (2016)
  • Inventions (Leveret) (2017)
  • Diversions (Leveret) (2019)

Books

Cutting contributed melodies and a biographical essay to:

  • Blowzabella - new tunes for dancing. (by Andy Cutting, Nigel Eaton, Jo Freya, Paul James, Ian Luff, Cliff Stapleton, David Shepherd and Jon Swayne) Blowzabella, Glastonbury 2004, ISBN 978-0-9549013-0-1 .

Cutting contributed melodies to:

  • The Waltz Book IV. Ed .: Bill Matthiesen, 2013.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Robin Denselow : Leveret / Spiro review - traditional tunes and trance . Retrieved April 29, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b About Andy . Retrieved April 30, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b c Blowzabella - New Tunes for Dancing (by Andy Cutting, Nigel Eaton , Jo Freya , Paul James, Ian Luff, Cliff Stapleton, David Shepherd, Jon Swayne), Blowzabella, Glastonbury (2004) ISBN 0-9549013-0- 4th
  4. ↑ Blowzabella website: history Accessed 15 January 2010
  5. ^ Peter Fairbairn: "Wood & Cutting Live at Sidmouth" . Retrieved April 30, 2018.
  6. ↑ Andy Cutting's website: Home Accessed January 15, 2010
  7. ↑ Kate Rusby's website: Biography Please enter either wayback - or webciteID - or archive-is - or archiv-url parameters Accessed 15 January 2010
  8. ↑ Andy Cutting's website: News Please enter either wayback - or webciteID - or archive-is - or archiv-url parameters Accessed 15 January 2010
  9. ↑ Cecil Sharp Project . Retrieved April 29, 2018.
  10. ↑ Tim Cumming: 'English music is lumpy if you don't play it well': interview with folk trio Leveret . Retrieved April 29, 2018.
  11. ↑ Tim Cumming: Albums of the Year 2018: The Gloaming - Live at the NCH . Retrieved December 21, 2018.
  12. ↑ Martin Chilton: Best Folk Music Albums of 2015 . Retrieved April 29, 2018.
  13. ↑ Simon Houlihan: Introducing new Anglo-French band Topette !! . Retrieved February 11, 2019.
  14. ↑ BBC Radio 2 website; Folk Awards 2008: Winners Accessed 15 January 2010
  15. ↑ Andy Cutting Discography on andy-cutting.co.uk
personal data
SURNAME Cutting, Andy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English folk musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Harrow , London , United Kingdom