Andrew Mount Biography: Community Activist, Musician, Writer, And Aiding Animals Volunteer

Andrew Mount Biography:  Community Activist, Musician, Writer, And Aiding Animals Volunteer

Andrew Mount, Community Activist, Musician, Writer, and Aiding
Animals Volunteer.

Andrew Mount was born on June 25th, 1984.  Mount grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia around farmland and little used roads.  He ultimately graduated from Perkiomen Valley High School in 2003 after focusing mainly on Music and AP Science and Math courses.

Directly after graduating, Andrew went on a road trip across the U.S. and back, the trip taking a total of 8 weeks and taking him through about 30 states.  After returning, he attended Rider University for a degree in Biochemistry, but left before graduating to move to Chicago.

  

While there, Mount ended up buying a house and began building what he thought was going to be the rest of his life.  While working 2 jobs and trying to get his own business off the ground, the housing market crash of 2008 happened.  Andrew ended up losing everything he had built at that point, and thus decided he wanted to move back to Philadelphia.

  

Since moving back, he has attended the Community College of Philadelphia and graduated with an Associates in Science and has contended with trying his best to keep several jobs through what one might call an alcohol problem.

While employed at a cafe in 30th Street Station, Mount met someone who had just moved to the city several months earlier from Alaska.  The two ended up discovering that they had similar interests in music and, despite the fact that he had not played in quite some time, Mount was invited over for a jam session with him on drums and his friend on guitar, who had also just moved from Alaska.  That was the beginning of Andrew’s part as a member of a band called "Grey Fox".

  

Grey Fox lasted about 3.5 years, going through a couple singers through that time, and with the release of a self recorded, mixed, mastered, and published EP called "It Never Ends".  Just before breaking up, the band was invited up to the CBGB festival in NYC at no cost, the result of apparently being noticed through our EP by one of the organizers.

Since the breakup of the band, Mount has spent a majority of his time trying to help those who he met along the way with whatever problems they come across that they feel they cannot solve on their own.  Through all of these experiences Andrew Mount has learned never to judge too hastily, to love Philadelphia for its amazing people and their resilience, and to never allow him to stop learning as much as he can from any source he can get his hands on."

  

Andrew Mount, Customer Service Rep., Writer & Review Writer of the Philadelphia Front Page News-Magazine / Power WVSR1360.1-AM / Power88 The FM.  And he is an Aid the Animals Community Activist as well. Mount is a Special Volunteer of The Phila. Front Page News, WVSR1360, Power88 The FM Playground of Harmony project. The project is for helping children with disability using magazines and radio, and music.  A musician, he also leads public affairs programming on the FPN to be produced and imaged for the public.  He can be reached @Andrew Mount facebook.