Andrew Penner is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist, performer, composer, actor, sound designer, and producer currently residing in Toronto, Ontario. He is a member of Americana duo Harrow Fair, and folk rock and roll band

Sunparlour Players Sunparlour Players are a Canadian alternative country band. Based in Toronto, Ontario, the band consists of songwriter Andrew Penner on lead vocals, guitar, bass, banjo, bass organ pedals, percussion, and kick drum and Michael "Rosie" Rosenthal on ...

. Penner is also an actor and has appeared in

Soulpepper Theatre Soulpepper is a theater company based in Toronto, Ontario. It is the largest non-profit theater in the city. History Soulpepper was founded in 1998 by twelve Toronto artists aiming to produce lesser-known theatrical classics. Soulpepper has sinc ...

’s ''Spoon River'' and ''

As You Like It ''As You Like It'' is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 and first published in the First Folio in 1623. The play's first performance is uncertain, though a performance at Wilton House in 1603 has b ...

'', Ghost Quartet (Crows Theatre). He has composed music for

’s ''Blood Wedding'',

Stratford Festival The Stratford Festival is a theatre festival which runs from April to October in the city of Stratford, Ontario, Canada. Founded by local journalist Tom Patterson in 1952, the festival was formerly known as the Stratford Shakespearean Festival ...

’s ''Grapes of Wrath'' as well as films Eadweard (film) and

Small Town Murder Songs ''Small Town Murder Songs'' is a 2010 Canadian neo-noir crime film directed by Ed Gass-Donnelly. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 14, 2010. The film is written by Gass-Donnelly, produced by Gass-Donnelly ...

, FX show "Lost Girl" and many others.

Early life

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

Career

In 2005 Penner formed the band, Sunparlour Players, and in 2007 released their debut album, "Hymns For The Happy". In 2009 they released, ''Wave North''. On the band's 2011 album, ''Us Little Devils'', Penner played eleven instruments. He wrote many songs for the group. In 2014 Sunparlour Players released "The Living Proof" and toured heavily in North America and Europe. 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 in 2013 for outstanding sound design/composition. Penner appeared in and composed music for

’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''."Harrow Fair sounds a Call to Arms with their debut album in the NP Sessions Studio"
''National Post'', December 15, 2016 In 2020 Harrow Fair released their sophomore album "Sins We Made". Penner has created and performed for theatre at The Stratford Festival, Soulpepper, Crows Theatre (**award-winning production of "Ghost Quartet"), CanStage, Native Earth, Obsidian and many others. He has either won or been nominated for several awards for this work in theatre and film including the Dora Awards, Toronto Theatre Critics Award, Summerworks Jury Award, Leo Awards ("Eadweard")

References

External links

– Harrow Fair
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