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Andrew Cronshaw is an English musician, zither-player, and multi-instrumentalist known for his deep influences from traditional Finnish, Scots Gaelic, and North Iberian music. He has formed numerous successful live-performing alliances, notably with long-time collaborator Ian Blake, Armenian duduk player Tigran Aleksanyan, Canada-based Chinese pipa and gu-cheng virtuoso Liu Fang, and Vietnamese dan bau master Pham Duc Thanh. Cronshaw's ninth solo album, "The Unbroken Surface of Snow" (Cloud Valley, 2011), led to the formation of the band SANS, which includes Tigran Aleksanyan, Ian Blake, and Finnish singer Sanna Kurki-Suonio. They released "SANS Live" in 2014 and expanded their lineup with Sanna's daughter, Erika Hammarberg, to release "Kulku" in 2018 (Cloud Valley, 2018). His tenth solo album, "Zithers" (Cloud Valley, 2020), features two types of zithers: the electrified 74-string chord zither, a key instrument throughout his career, and the marovantele, a unique instrument of his own design with 22 pairs of strings on each side. In addition to his music, Cronshaw is a world music journalist, contributing features and reviews primarily for fRoots magazine, as well as writing for the Nordic, Baltic, and Portuguese chapters in The Rough Guide to World Music. He has

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