“… One of the country’s greatest treasures of folk music …” (Cincinnati.com)
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Multi-instrumentalist, South Haven native and Renaissance man Andru Bemis has spent the past decade or so making his way across the country carrying his instruments on his back, spreading folk…
The Womacks, Andru Bemis rock local venue
… “Andru Bemis, hailing from South Haven, Mich., opened the evening at 7 p.m. and thrilled the audience for about an hour. Bemis’ songs were story-like. He had great stage…
Interview & article — Reforma
“… Andru representa una especie en extincion: la del artista inspirado en la vida de los trovadores medievales y la sensualidad romantica que vaga por el mundo cantando historias sobre…
Concert review from Phyllis’ Musical Inn
… Andru Bemis, on the other hand, lives just as much on the road as in southwest Michigan, where he coordinates the music at Foundry Hall in South Haven. Sometimes…
Review from WPSU–FM [Lemont, PA]
“Andru Bemis is a modern folk singer who sounds like he should be on some dusty old 78 record. The way he plays clawhammer banjo and nylon-string guitar, you can…
Review from A.V. Club [Madison, WI]
“… road-ramblin’ folk songs clatter with quickly plucked banjo and agreeable, gritty lyrics about railroads, crawdads, and the like.” — The A.V. Club [Madison, WI]
Review from Isthmus [Madison, WI]
“Straddling the boundary between punk rock and mountain music, Bemis is known for taking traditional songs most people have never heard and adapting them in ways that are both inventive…
Review from Knox Student [Galesburg, IL]
If you cross a vagabond with a bottle of whiskey and a few banjo strings, the outcome is likely to be folk singer Andru Bemis. Playing a half an hour…
Review from Emily Hurd
… Food Review: Andru Bemis is a whole tea party. A hundred different cups of tea, all made the same way, but with different strengths and weaknesses and grit and…