About
Andrea Ramolo
Andrea Ramolo is a name you should have heard of by now. Since releasing her debut album “Thank You For the Ride” in October of 2008, she’s become known as the “tireless road warrior” having completed two East Coast tours, gigs all over Ontario, and a Nashville showcase. Most impressive, however, was the five month cross Canada tour of almost 100 shows two years in a row from coast to coast and up to the Yukon.After almost 100, 000 kms of living in her van with her trusty one-man band Jason Skiendziel, and developing a fan base all over the great North, Andrea is set to release her second FACTOR supported album with producer Tim Thorney (Alanis Morissette, Jimmy Rankin). She’s been called the antidote to too much Joni Mitchell, a tougher Dolly Parton, a sexier Janis Joplin, and has even been compared to Canada’s own Serena Ryder; but Ramolo has a sound that is all her own. Drawing stories from real life experiences, her tunes are direct, to the point, funny, sexy, and vulnerable all at the same time. She is a born performer and has been described as fearless, raw, emotional, and confident.
Highlights include the Artswells Festival, the Robson Valley Folk Fest, Music on the Mountain Fest, the South Country Fair, the Sunstroke Music Festival, the Saskatoon Berry Festival, In the Dead of Winter Music Festival, The Sasquatch Festival and The World Skills Festival at the Calgary Stampede grounds.
Andrea has shared the stage with Fred Eaglesmith, Stacey Earle and Mark Stuart, Colin Linden, Twilight Hotel, Shari Ullrich, Coco Love Alcorn, and Slowcoaster (to name a handful), and has lent her vocal talents to recordings for The Trews, Martha and the Muffins, Cindy Doire, and The Strip. In 2009, she won the Toronto Exclusive Magazine awards for Best Female Folk Artist, Best Folk Album, and Best Blues Song. She was also asked to be a guest speaker at the 2009 Ontario Council of Folk Festivals Conference in Ottawa on how to book your own tour as an indie artist. This young woman has years of songwriting, singing, and success ahead of her.
Finding time to discover Andrea Ramolo — now, rather than later when she’s famous— is well worth the effort. You don’t find this kind of musical honesty very often.
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