Bio: Andrew Farmer, otherwise known as FRMR, is a songwriter and poet based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Formerly performing with folk troupe Sons of Caliber, he has played many of NI's best local venues and festivals such as Glasgowbury, Open House and Stendhal. Throughout his career he has supported a number of international artists including Nathaniel Rateliff, The Staves and Gemma Hayes. His debut record Amelanchier is a melodic hybrid that welds both song and spoken word into one systemic score. A post folk murmuration idling along electronic borders, FRMR prudently collides old with new in his distinct and elegiac way. For it seems that this recently absent and weathered artist has fully emerged again from the deep forests of his own inner augury, spending the last few years evolving the rugged contours of his sound. This recent work is an ode to residency, with an unwavering allegiance to the soil. And he draws throughout, from various aspects of early life, growing up on a farm in rural South Derry. In August 2020 FRMR first performed his song, Paraclete with Duke Special and the Ulster Orchestra. This was later included in a collaborative album called Our Songs Our Place, and featured tracks from eight other local artists who had written songs during the first Covid-19 lockdown. RTÉ's Sean Rocks called Paraclete "a phenomenon song". frmr.ie