Andrew Cadie

Vocals, Fiddle, Guitar, Northumbrian pipes

As a child living in Northumberland, Andrew’s earliest musical memories are of ceilidhs at family weddings in Scotland, Berwick Pipe Band marching through his village and Alistair Anderson demonstrating Northumbrian music on concertina and pipes at his first school. That, and his dad’s singalongs in the local pubs and at home (where Andrew and his brother started to join in). Through these experiences, Andrew was drawn to learn to play traditional music but also diversified in to rock and pop styles in his teenage years, which he spent in the English Midlands. He busked his way round Europe in 1999-2001 before enrolling on the Folk and Traditional music degree at Newcastle Uni, studying fiddle, guitar and singing with the guidence of some of his favourite musicians. At this time he played with Katie Doherty and Roger Purves in Roll a Penny, gigging all over the UK, Germany and even Estonia.

Parallel to his studies, Andrew had already decided to settle in Germany and had briefly met Mark Bloomer there in 2005 – an aquaintence that led to the formation of Broom Bezzums in 2006.

In 2006 Andrew released his solo CD ‘The Snow Tree’, which received critical acclaim but was never the basis for any touring, as he preferred to commit fully to Broom Bezzums.

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