Today we’d like to introduce you to Evan Andree.
Evan, we’d love to hear your story and how you got to where you are today both personally and as an artist.
I started out playing music in high school and college. This included a few little indie bands with my friends and volunteering at church. I took the college route initially, majoring in English. After graduating, it quickly became apparent that I wasn’t going to do anything with that degree and that I’d rather spend my energy building a business around what I loved to do, that being all things music and audio.
In the last 7 or so years, I’ve worked hard at chasing down every opportunity music and audio have presented, slowly building a clientele and network. I spent two years in Los Angeles expanding my worldview and absorbing the elevated level of creativity there. Throughout all of this I consistently pursued a million little opportunities every year to create a much larger business today. Now, I consistently work on creating music for Film and TV, producing indie artists, composing custom music for advertising, doing post production and SFX, editing audiobooks, and writing with artists and writers in ATL and LA.
We’d love to hear more about your art. What do you do you do and why and what do you hope others will take away from your work?
I work in music and audio production on a number of levels: writing, production, and engineering for bands and artists, developing artists and projects for publishers, creating music for film, tv, and advertising, and working on post production for ads as well as audiobooks.
All of these separate things fall under the umbrella of my production company called Banvard Music. I often work from my home studio or American Sushi in Little Five Points. I really just love to be creative and having several areas to flex that muscle in. So, every day is a little different but the one constant is getting to create.
As I was developing my business and working my way into the industry, I was always super concerned about finding a place to go with the music I created. A weird thing about the music industry is a lot of people are being creative everyday but more often than not those songs just stay on a hard drive or voice memo and don’t ever do anything. So, my motto has always been to make music, then make things happen with it. I’m thankful that, so far, I’ve been able to do this pretty well.
Do current events, local or global, affect your work and what you are focused on?
I don’t think the role of artists has change much, but the medium for influence has changed dramatically with technology and will only continue to do so. A lot of people bemoan the end of massive record deals and multi-million-dollar music contracts. A lot of folks are crying foul about music streaming and other changes in the industry. What those people fail to realize is how much better it really is now. There are so many ways around the “gatekeepers” and you can reach an audience a hundred different ways now. There’s such a huge opportunity now to become a middle-class musician that didn’t exist 20 years ago; you were either (probably) broke or one of the very few lucky people who became a rock star. But with all the marketing tools available for creatives now, you can really force your way into an industry that really doesn’t want you there. I’ve done it. Hundreds of other artists, bands, producers, writers, etc. have too. Okay rant over.
National events will always affect art and hopefully, vice versa. I don’t see that changing anytime soon. My personal writing general leans toward the micro vs. the macro view, so I don’t generally delve too far into politics and national news. But the strains those things might put on the human experience are constantly cropping up in my art.
Do you have any events or exhibitions coming up? Where would one go to see more of your work? How can people support you and your artwork?
You can get a general feel for what I’m doing at my website Banvardmusic.com. All the artists I’m working with or have developed are there along with any notable things I’ve been involved with. You’ll find links to all the SoundClouds and socials there if you’re interested.
If people want to support this just stream the artists on Spotify and Apple Music. It’s some really good music if I do say so myself. Streaming really goes a long way and is a part of music’s future that I fully embrace. Oh, also – feel free to reach out about working on a project together!
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.banvardmusic.com
- Email: banvardmusicgroup@gmail.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/evandree
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/evanandreemusic
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/evanandreemusic
Image Credit:
Bobby Russell, Evan Andree, Abigail Andree, Cody MacKenzie.
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