Andrea Ramolo
Andrea Ramolo is a long-time Canadian touring and recording artist, a multiple
Canadian Folk Music Award nominee, an award-winning filmmaker and music video
director, and an actor and educator. She was one-half of the successful folk harmony
duo Scarlett Jane and more recently released her 8th studio record – an ancestral Italian
electronic folk album with Italian band Kalàscima. In 2023, she won the Canadian
Ethnic Media Award for Best Documentary for her first feature-length Canada Arts
Council-funded music documentary THE SOUTH. Her co-direction on her own music
video for FREE (ft. Kinnie Starr) was awarded Best Folk Video at the 2022 Canadian
Independent Music Video Awards. Andrea is presently working on her 9th studio record
which she plans to self-produce while simultaneously sharpening her skills and love for
producing and creating spaces for her colleagues.
Andrea is the artistic director of a brand new Toronto music festival called Our Music
Festival – boasting a lineup that celebrates female and gender-diverse voices only.
Having had a hand in producing large multi-artist and multidisciplinary events in the
past, including a five year run of a women’s music collective alongside a handful of her
talented colleagues, coupled with multiple inspiring conversations that came out of an
online meetup group of some of Canada’s most profound female and non-binary artists
throughout the pandemic, Andrea decided she wanted to have a hand in helping to
initiate more change for her peers in the music industry.
She was the host of her own radio show called Vintage Italy with Andrea Ramolo on
ITOC Radio, has currently finished directing her first comedic short film as part of a
great initiative to get more women and non-binary filmmakers onto sets, and continues
to tour her music and documentary nationally and internationally. Andrea is presently
writing her 9th studio record.
