At that time, I was doing a lot of covers. “Started to get my feet under how to get gigs, and where to play. “It helped bridge the gap between Montreal and … Cambridge,” O’Keeffe smiled fondly. While he searched for his niche, he attended open mics in Quincy and various bars to get comfortable with the scene. “Always worrying that people would think the lyrics are dumb or that the song overall is just bad.” When you begin to write your own lyrics about things that have happened in life, you’re really putting yourself out there,” he said. “It’s kind of an ultimate form of vulnerability. ![]() O’Keeffe was terrified to sing live at first. Singing live, however, is an another hurdle. However, he stumbled upon some singer-songwriter tunes that marked the pivotal moment in his music career: He realized how well his voice blended with acoustic sounds. O’Keeffe had trouble finding musicians serious enough to play in a band. I thought, ‘Surely I’ll have a band in no time.’ But it definitely didn’t work out that way.” “I played a little in Montreal and I knew I wanted to pursue it back home. “It just seemed like the place to be,” said O’Keeffe. He graduated from University of Montreal after a couple years of studying Mediterranean archeology before he made the leap to Cambridge in 2009. Like most high bands, it didn’t amount to anything concrete. O’Keeffe grew up on the South Shore in Cohasset, where he sang and played guitar in a high school band with friends. You know, what every 12-year-old kid wants to learn. As a boy, he took classical guitar lessons, though he wanted to play Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix. ![]() O’Keeffe tends to write slowly and dwell on his projects until it comes out just the way he wants it. “Our original goal was to finish by May 2014.” “The very first stuff we started recording was in January 2014,” said O’Keeffe. The Cambridge local released his first full-length album on November 12 a self-titled CD full of folk tunes. ![]() Producing an album can be a slow-moving beast, but singer-songwriter Andrew O’Keeffe finally did it.
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