hello!

i'll work on the actual backstory soon..

but until then - here's the bio from my RN page.. thanks!

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Andy Happel - composer | performer | multi-instrumentalist.

   

original music, artist production/recording, string arrangements/performance, video production/editing, private instruction.

   

present: 

-Don Campbell Band 

-Aeterna Orchestra

   

past: 

-Thanks To Gravity (Capitol Records, EMI Publishing). 1991-2000

   

notable opening gigs:

(with Don Campbell)  Carrie Underwood, Toby Keith, Willie Nelson, Charlie Daniels, Randy Travis, Big and Rich, Gretchen Wilson, America, Emerson Drive, Clint Black

   

(with Thanks To Gravity)  Dave Matthews Band, Matchbox 20, Train, Guster, The Wallflowers, Sinead O'Connor

   

(with Rick Page) Jason Aldean

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notable string arrangements:

-Guster (Reprise) 

-Tim Janis (indie)

-Adam Cohen (Sony)

-Fates Warning (Epic)

-Mr.Vertigo (indie)

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-Symphonic work premiered by NH Philharmonic, season opening 1996.