Andy leads the “Reel of Seven” Scottish dance band, and is the music coordinator for the San Francisco Branch of the RSCDS. Reel of Seven has just released their first CD: “Dance for Joy” recorded in 2008 at the Kim McGarrity Memorial Ball at Asilomar.

Andrew began Scottish Country Dancing in Berkeley in 1977 and earned his preliminary pass teacher’s certificate in 1984, and one day hopes to find time to train for the full certificate. He began studying classical piano as a child, and started playing for Scottish Country Dancing in 1984 with the encouragement of Kim McGarrity and Barbara McOwen. He plays regularly for dances throughout the US and Canada with Calum MacKinnon, and has also played for dance tours and workshops in Scotland, Shetland, Orkney, and New Zealand with fiddler John Taylor.

Andy is featured on several albums of SCD music, including “Steppin’ Out” and “LIVE” with John Taylor, “March Hare” with Susan Worland, “The San Francisco Collection, Vol. 2” with many local musicians, and “The Devil’s Quandary” with Deby Benton Grosjean. He has been on music staff at Pinewoods and was honored to have been invited to teach piano accompaniment at the Valley of the Moon Scottish fiddling school for several years.

Andrew is married to Sherryl Fawx (also a dancer and musician); they live in Santa Clara, California. In his free time, he works as an aerospace engineer specializing in simulation, guidance, and control design of flight vehicles.