Kristin Andreassen is known for using body percussion and dance in live performances.
15 Facts About Kristin Andreassen
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Kristin Andreassen appeared at the Folk Alliance International conference in Kansas City in February 2015.
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Kristin Andreassen grew up in the Portland, Oregon, suburb of Hillsboro.
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Kristin Andreassen began professionally pursuing her interest in music and dance in 1999, when she was hired by Footworks Percussive Dance Ensemble in Annapolis, Maryland.
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Kristin Andreassen left her full-time position in the company in 2003, though she continued to collaborate with the troupe from time to time.
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In December 2003 Kristin Andreassen joined the old-time music group Uncle Earl as a guitar player, dancer and singer.
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Kristin Andreassen first met the founder of the group, mandolin player KC Groves at the Appalachian Stringband Music Festival in West Virginia in the late 1990s.
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Kristin Andreassen wrote the band's song "Pale Moon", which includes the lyric that became the title of their first Rounder Records release, She Waits For Night.
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Kristin Andreassen became a founding member of the "folk noir" singing trio Sometymes Why in 2005, when she got together with two women from other notable stringbands to write and record a singer-songwriter album.
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Kristin Andreassen continued to tour with the band as she started her career as a solo artist and singer-songwriter.
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Kristin Andreassen's follow-up children's music project, The Bright Siders, is a collaboration with Brooklyn-based child psychiatrist Kari Groff and features songs on mental health issues for children.
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Since moving to Brooklyn, New York in 2009, Kristin Andreassen began focusing on community projects as well.
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Kristin Andreassen co-founded a Monday night old time music session at the Lowlands Bar in 2010, hosted a series of variety shows at the now-defunct Banjo Jim's in the East Village, and taught dance and performed regularly at the Jalopy Theatre in Brooklyn.
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Kristin Andreassen became the co-director of Miles of Music Camp, an all-ages artist retreat she co-founded with Laura Cortese.
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For March 2015, Kristin Andreassen has announced a full band tour of New England, including Joe's Pub in New York City, and Club Passim in Cambridge, Massachusetts.