Andrew Penner (musician)

Andrew Penner is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist, performer, composer[1], actor, sound designer, and producer currently residing in Toronto, Ontario. He is a member of folk band Harrow Fair, and alternative country band Sunparlour Players.[2] Penner is also a theatre actor and has appeared in Soulpepper Theatre’s Spoon River and As You Like It. He has composed music for Soulpepper Theatre’s Blood Wedding, Stratford Festival’s Grapes of Wrath[3] as well as films Eadweard (film) and Small Town Murder Songs.

Andrew Penner
BornLeamington, Ontario, Canada
OriginToronto, Ontario, Canada
Genres
Occupation(s)Instrumentalist, composer, sound designer, producer, actor
Associated actsHarrow Fair, Sunparlour Players
Websiteandrewpenner.ca

Early life

Penner grew up in a Mennonite family on a farm in southern Ontario.[4]

Career

In 2009 Penner and his band, Soulparlour Players, released an album, Wave North.[5] On the band's 2011 album, Us Little Devils, Penner played eleven instruments.[6] He wrote many songs for the group.[7]

Penner and his wife Erin Brandenburg are the organizers of Kitchenband, a Toronto theatre collective. The collective has a number of original works including Reesor, Petrichor, Detroit Time Machine and BOBLO,[8][9] the latter of which earned Penner a Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination in 2013 for outstanding sound design/composition.

Penner appeared in and composed music for Soulpepper Theatre’s 2016 production Blood Wedding,[10] Also that year Penner formed a duo, Harrow Fair, with violinist Miranda Mulholland.[11] The pair released an album, Call to Arms.[12]

References
  1. "Sunparlour Players Announce New Album, Front-man Debuts Musical". Exclaim!. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  2. 'A play about a band, starring that band'. The Globe and Mail Apr. 18, 2019
  3. "Triple Threat: Andrew Penner". Musical Stage Company. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
  4. "Green in the scene: Sunparlour Players released their third album Us Little Devils". Queens JOurnal, November 25, 2011 Asad Chishti
  5. "The Tranzac Transcripts: Andrew Penner". The Torontoist, By Steve Fisher • December 2, 2010
  6. "Sunparlour Players Talk 'Us Little Devils,' Reveal Canadian Tour Dates". Exclaim!, By Kerry Doole, Oct 19, 2011
  7. Sanders, Rachel (21 May 2009). "Sunparlour Players Pull You In". Exclaim!. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
  8. "Bob-Lo theme park memories revived in show". The Toronto Star. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  9. "Parkdale musician heads out on tour with home preserves". Toronto.com. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  10. "Brave, but foolhardy: In Blood Wedding, you can’t see the actors for the trees". National Post, Robert Cushman, March 30, 2016
  11. "What actor Shawn Doyle is reading and listening to". The Globe and Mail, Mar. 15, 2017
  12. "Harrow Fair sounds a Call to Arms with their debut album in the NP Sessions Studio". National Post, December 15, 2016
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