Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist and lyricist ANDREW BIRD picked up his first violin at the age of 4 and spent his formative years soaking up classical repertoire completely by ear.  When it came time for a restless teenager to make his own way, it wasn’t such a giant leap to Hungarian Gypsy music, early jazz, country blues, south Indian etc. It’s fitting that now, though classically trained, he has opted to play his violin in a most unconventional manner, accompanying himself on glockenspiel and guitar, adding singing and whistling to the equation, and becoming a pop songwriter in the process.

Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist and lyricist ANDREW BIRD picked up his first violin at the age of 4 and spent his formative years soaking up classical repertoire completely by ear.  When it came time for a restless teenager to make his own way, it wasn’t such a giant leap to Hungarian Gypsy music, early jazz, country blues, south Indian etc. It’s fitting that now, though classically trained, he has opted to play his violin in a most unconventional manner, accompanying himself on glockenspiel and guitar, adding singing and whistling to the equation, and becoming a pop songwriter in the process.

Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist and lyricist ANDREW BIRD picked up his first violin at the age of 4 and spent his formative years soaking up classical repertoire completely by ear.  When it came time for a restless teenager to make his own way, it wasn’t such a giant leap to Hungarian Gypsy music, early jazz, country blues, south Indian etc. It’s fitting that now, though classically trained, he has opted to play his violin in a most unconventional manner, accompanying himself on glockenspiel and guitar, adding singing and whistling to the equation, and becoming a pop songwriter in the process.

Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist and lyricist ANDREW BIRD picked up his first violin at the age of 4 and spent his formative years soaking up classical repertoire completely by ear.  When it came time for a restless teenager to make his own way, it wasn’t such a giant leap to Hungarian Gypsy music, early jazz, country blues, south Indian etc. It’s fitting that now, though classically trained, he has opted to play his violin in a most unconventional manner, accompanying himself on glockenspiel and guitar, adding singing and whistling to the equation, and becoming a pop songwriter in the process.

Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist and lyricist ANDREW BIRD picked up his first violin at the age of 4 and spent his formative years soaking up classical repertoire completely by ear.  When it came time for a restless teenager to make his own way, it wasn’t such a giant leap to Hungarian Gypsy music, early jazz, country blues, south Indian etc. It’s fitting that now, though classically trained, he has opted to play his violin in a most unconventional manner, accompanying himself on glockenspiel and guitar, adding singing and whistling to the equation, and becoming a pop songwriter in the process.

Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist and lyricist ANDREW BIRD picked up his first violin at the age of 4 and spent his formative years soaking up classical repertoire completely by ear.  When it came time for a restless teenager to make his own way, it wasn’t such a giant leap to Hungarian Gypsy music, early jazz, country blues, south Indian etc. It’s fitting that now, though classically trained, he has opted to play his violin in a most unconventional manner, accompanying himself on glockenspiel and guitar, adding singing and whistling to the equation, and becoming a pop songwriter in the process.

Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist and lyricist ANDREW BIRD picked up his first violin at the age of 4 and spent his formative years soaking up classical repertoire completely by ear.  When it came time for a restless teenager to make his own way, it wasn’t such a giant leap to Hungarian Gypsy music, early jazz, country blues, south Indian etc. It’s fitting that now, though classically trained, he has opted to play his violin in a most unconventional manner, accompanying himself on glockenspiel and guitar, adding singing and whistling to the equation, and becoming a pop songwriter in the process.

Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist and lyricist ANDREW BIRD picked up his first violin at the age of 4 and spent his formative years soaking up classical repertoire completely by ear.  When it came time for a restless teenager to make his own way, it wasn’t such a giant leap to Hungarian Gypsy music, early jazz, country blues, south Indian etc. It’s fitting that now, though classically trained, he has opted to play his violin in a most unconventional manner, accompanying himself on glockenspiel and guitar, adding singing and whistling to the equation, and becoming a pop songwriter in the process.

Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist and lyricist ANDREW BIRD picked up his first violin at the age of 4 and spent his formative years soaking up classical repertoire completely by ear.  When it came time for a restless teenager to make his own way, it wasn’t such a giant leap to Hungarian Gypsy music, early jazz, country blues, south Indian etc. It’s fitting that now, though classically trained, he has opted to play his violin in a most unconventional manner, accompanying himself on glockenspiel and guitar, adding singing and whistling to the equation, and becoming a pop songwriter in the process.