Joel Andrews

Joel Andrews, a spiritual harpist, was immersed in the world of music from his birth in 1928. Andrews' father was a musical entertainer who toured the world, exposing the young Andrews to many exotic cultures. When he was six, his parents divorced; his mother remarried an authoritarian man who, nevertheless, filled the house with classical music from his enormous record collection. Andrews sought emotional support from his maternal grandmother, who bought him a full-size concert harp when he was thirteen. In the '30s and '40s, Andrews grew spiritually from visits to his uncl...