Andy Kruspe

Andy Kruspe is a bodhrán player based Huntsville, Alabama. He has performed and recorded with several Celtic artists in the southeastern United States, including Banna de dhá, Black Market Haggis, David Coe & Friends, Candace Corrigan, Mithril, The Nashville Ceili Band, and SlipJig. He is also active as a teacher and clinician and has presented numerous workshops at several universities and festivals.

In 2013, he released The Bodhrán Primer- a book that “Percussive Notes” called “…quite possibly the best instructional resource on Irish bodhrán by a musician born outside of Ireland.” His second book, Playing the Tune: Techniques for Accompanying Irish Traditional Music on the Bodhrán was released in 2015.