Andrew Penner (musician)


Andrew Penner is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist, performer, composer, actor, sound designer, and producer currently residing in Toronto, Ontario. He is a member of folk band Harrow Fair, and alternative country band Sunparlour Players. Penner is also a theatre actor and has appeared in Soulpepper Theatre’s Spoon River and As You Like It. He has composed music for Soulpepper Theatre’s Blood Wedding, Stratford Festival’s Grapes of Wrath as well as films Eadweard and Small Town Murder Songs.

Early life

Penner grew up in a Mennonite family on a farm in southern Ontario.

Career

In 2009 Penner and his band, Soulparlour Players, released an album, Wave North. On the band's 2011 album, Us Little Devils, Penner played eleven instruments. He wrote many songs for the group.
Penner and his wife Erin Brandenburg are the organizers of Kitchenband, a Toronto theatre collective. The collective has a number of original works including Reesor, Petrichor, Detroit Time Machine and BOBLO, the latter of which earned Penner a Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination in 2013 for outstanding sound design/composition.
Penner appeared in and composed music for Soulpepper Theatre’s 2016 production Blood Wedding, Also that year Penner formed a duo, Harrow Fair, with violinist Miranda Mulholland. The pair released an album, Call to Arms.