Andy McClelland was born and raised in Toronto and moved to the Near North of Ontario, Canada about 25 years ago.

He is a multi-instrumentalist and has played music professionally for about 60 years in many genres.

He performed with Fred McKenna (of the CBC’s Singalong Jubilee and Don Messer’s Jubilee fame) and Ron Nigrini. He also produced four albums for the latter.

In the 1970s, Andy was on the Holiday Inn circuit. (He still does "Stayin' Alive.”) In the 80s, he hooked up with his old folk-music partner, Ken Harris, to form a "new country" duo, which morphed into a swing, jazz, R & B, classic rock, etc. band.

Andy has released four indie albums on his own, including Songs from the Jazz Age (2022). Point of View (2026) is his fifth.

His main instrument is guitar which he started playing about three months after the first time he saw The Beatles perform on The Ed Sullivan Show. (He wanted to be George.) He also plays banjo, bass, lap steel guitar, piano, drums, mandolin and ukulele.

When people ask him what his influences are, he says: all of them.

Andy is a prolific songwriter. You can listen to some of his works on SoundCloud here.

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