Kristin Andreassen
MerleFest 2007 Photo by Forrest L. Smith, III
Background information
Origin	Portland, Oregon
Genres	Americana Old-time music
Instruments	Guitar, Fiddle, Clogging, Vocals
Website	Kristin Andreassen's website

Kristin Andreassen is an American musician and dancer. She grew up in Portland, Oregon as Kristin Andrews. In 2002 she started using her great-grandfather's name Andreassen. Kristin sings, plays harmonica, piano, guitar, banjo-uke and fiddle and she is also a songwriter. From 1999 onwards she has been working as a principal dancer with Footworks Percussive Dance Ensemble, teaching & performing various related forms of percussive dance: clogging, tap, Irish & Canadian step dance. In December 2003 she joined the old-time music group Uncle Earl. She is a member of Sometymes Why and The Jolly Bankers.

With the song Crayola, that she wrote together with Megan Downes, Kristin has won the 2006 John Lennon Songwriting Contest in the "Children's" category^[1]. The song was included on her 2007 solo record and she recorded a video for the song ^[2] directed by Ballard C. Boyd.

On November 22, 2008 she appeared on A Prairie Home Companion as a solo artist.^[3]

Contents 1 Discography 2 External links 3 Multimedia 4 Footnotes

[edit] Discography

• Death & Taxes (w/ The Jolly Bankers) (2003)
• Sometimes Why (w/ Sometymes Why) (2005)
• She Waits for Night (w/ Uncle Earl) (2005)
• Tax Return (w/ The Jolly Bankers) (2006)
• Waterloo, TN (w/ Uncle Earl) (2007)
• Kiss Me Hello (2007)
• Your Heart is a Glorious Machine (w/ Sometymes Why) (2009)

[edit] External links

• Kristin Andreassen's website
• Kristin Andreassen's myspace site
• Uncle Earl's website
• Uncle Earl's myspace site
• Sometymes Why's website
• Sometymes Why's myspace site
• The Jolly Bankers' website

[edit] Multimedia

• Kristin Andreassen on A Prairie Home Companion
• Music Video for Crayola

[edit] Footnotes

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