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ANDREW BIRD
COMPOSER / SONGWRITER
MOTION PICTURES
THE MUPPETS (song)
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James Bobin, dir.
Walt Disney Studios
FORGET ME NOT
Matt Hyland, dir.
N/A
NORMAN
Jonathan Segal, dir.
North by Northwest Entertainment
LOOK ALIVE, MR. KLINE (short)
Jacob Hensberry, dir.
Fear of Fenchurch
DISCOGRAPHY
Noble Beast
2009
Fat Possum
Live in Montreal
2009
Grimsey
Soldier On
2007
Fargo
Armchair Apocrypha
2007
Fat Possum
Fingerlings 3
2006
Grimsey
The Mysterious Production of Eggs
2005
Righteous Babe
Fingerlings 2
2004
Grimsey
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DISCOGRAPHY (continued)
Fingerlings
2004
Grimsey
Weather Systems
2003
Righteous Babe
The Ballad of the Red Shoes
2002
Self-released
The Swimming Hour
2001
Rykodisc
Oh! The Grandeur
1999
Rykodisc
Thrills
1998
Rykodisc
Music of Hair
1996
Wegawam
BIOGRAPHY
Singer/Songwriter/Composer Andrew Bird began his music education at the age of four, picking
up a make-shift violin made from a Cracker Jack box with a ruler taped to it. Following this
auspicious beginning, a young Bird immersed himself in classical, Hungarian Gypsy, early jazz,
country blues, and South Indian music to name just a few genres, while carefully honing an
uncanny whistling ability.
Bird graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor’s in violin and wasted no time in
self-releasing his first album, The Music of Hair. He then assembled Andrew Bird’s Bowl of
Fire, with whom he released three records, most notably: The Swimming Hour, which features
standout tracks “Why?” and “Way Out West.”
Bird has since gone on to record and release several studio albums, as well as three Fingerling
albums, each comprised of live and/or outtake tracks that illustrate Bird’s evolutionary and
experimental nature. In 2006, he made his debuts at both the Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza
festivals.
On March 20, 2007, Armchair Apocrypha was released to critical acclaim. The New Yorker
called it “a vast, optimistic album about depressing things such as falling airplanes and empires,”
Newsweek said it contained “just the right parts darkness and light,” while The New York Times
exclaimed, “Mr. Bird spins existential doubts into elegant confections. The album’s success lead
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BIOGRAPHY (continued)
to debuts on THE LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN and LATE NIGHT WITH
CONAN O’BRIEN, as well as at the music festivals Coachella and Austin City Limits. Bird
continued to tour almost non-stop with performances at The Hollywood Bowl and Bumbershoot,
The Beacon Theater in New York, and the Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles with over 100 tour
dates, each with a unique set including different arrangements of every song on every night.
Armchair Apocrypha made the NPR ALL SONGS CONSIDERED #10 Listeners Top 25 of
2007, Esquire’s 8 Best Songs of 2007, Blender’s Favorite Songs of 2007 (“Darkmatter”),
Pitchfork #22 Readers’ Poll, #10 Paste Readers’ Poll, WNYC SOUNDCHECK’s Best Live
Performances of 2007, first place on MTVU’s Freshman (“Imitosis” video), the Plug
Independent Music Award for Best Male Vocalist, and much more.
In January of this year, Bird released Noble Beast: a self-produced album with 14 original songs
featuring Bird on violin, vocals, whistling, and guitar. He kicked off an album tour later in the
month and continues to tour throughout the year.
“Bird could be the only performer who’s lit up both Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo with a
combination of vocals, violin, guitar, glockenspiel and whistling... he uses centuries-old
instrumentation to give depth and soul to folk rock."—Esquire "The Masters Are Dead—Long
Live the Masters," November 2008
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