Andrea Ramolo

Andrea Ramolo is a multiple Canadian Folk Music Award nominee and has been recording and touring her music since 2008. Born in Toronto to Italianimmigrants, Andrea began her artistic life as a dancer and actress. In 2003 she picked up the guitar producing two albums “Thank You For The Ride’ and“The Shadows and the Cracks.” The latter earned her a nomination at the Canadian Folk Music Awards for Emerging Artist of the Year. She then formed Scarlett Jane with Cindy Doire and spent five years extensively touring behind two albums, 2012’ s Stranger and 2015’s eponymousoffering, earning accolades from press and fellow musicians across the country and two more CFMA nominations. Following that, Ramolo contributed to projects by Lee Harvey Osmond (where she crossed paths with Timmins), leading to the creation of NUDA (Italian fornaked). The album emerged out of a deep depression following a romantic breakup and a shift in her artistic path; but brought about a hugely positivemetamorphosis, personally and creatively. The alternative folk album is album is cool, dark, understated and melancholy and earned her a mention on the2017 Polaris Prize longer list. Her most recent record, Homage, stands as an important next step in her journey. The album honours songs by the late and great Leonard Cohen onceagain produced by Timmins and earned her a 2019 Canadian Folk Music Award Nomination for Contemporary Singer of the Year. Andrea has had the pleasure of singing alongside Gordon Lightfoot, Andy Maize, Ron Sexsmith, Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, Adam Cohen and theMontreal Symphony Orchestra, and more. She continues to tour the Canadian festival circuit and overseas in Europe and performs in both English and Italian.