Andy Kirk (footballer)

Andrew Robert "Andy" Kirk (born 29 May 1979 in Belfast is a Northern Irish footballer, currently without a club. He has previously played for Glentoran, Heart of Midlothian, Boston United, Northampton Town, Yeovil Town, Dunfermline Athletic and Alloa Athletic. He has also been capped by Northern Ireland. He is the son of former footballer and former Lisburn Distillery manager Paul Kirk.

Club career

Glentoran

Kirk started his career with Belfast team Glentoran.

Hearts

Having had several unsuccessful trials in England. In February 1999 Jim Jefferies signed Kirk for Hearts for £50,000.

Initially viewed as an investment for the future, Kirk played in the club's U-21 side for most of his first two seasons at Tynecastle Stadium. However, in 2000–01 he firmly established himself in the first eleven, making 40 appearances and scoring 13 times. After a season decimated by injuries, he made further double-figure scoring contributions in 2002–03 and 2003–04. However, financial restraints at the Edinburgh club resulted in Kirk being released when his contract expired in the summer of 2004.

Andrew Kirk

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Andrew Kirk (rugby league)

Andrew "Andy" Kirk born in Leeds, is an English professional rugby league footballer, playing at club level for Leeds Rhinos, Salford City Reds, Wakefield Trinity Wildcats, Halifax, Widnes Vikings, and Featherstone Rovers, as a wing, or centre.

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Andy Kirk (musician)

Andrew Dewey Kirk (May 28, 1898 – December 11, 1992) was a jazz saxophonist and tubist best known as a bandleader of the "Twelve Clouds of Joy", popular during the swing era.

Kirk grew up in Denver, Colorado, where he was tutored by Wilberforce Whiteman, Paul Whiteman's father. Kirk started his musical career playing with George Morrison's band, but then went on to join Terrence Holder's Dark Clouds of Joy. In 1929 he was elected leader after Holder departed. Renaming the band Clouds of Joy, Kirk also relocated the band from Dallas, Texas, to Kansas City, Kansas. Although officially titled as the Clouds of Joy, the band has also been known to be called the Twelve Clouds of Joy due to the number of musicians in the band. They set up in the Pla-Mor Ballroom on the junction of 32nd and Main in Kansas City and made their first recording for Brunswick Records that same year. Mary Lou Williams came in as pianist at the last moment, but she impressed Brunswick's Dave Kapp, so she became a regular member of the band.