There’s a new business in Andover. It’s called Hummingbird Studio, and owner Jimmy Sferes describes it as follows:

“This is a state-of-the-art digital sound-recording venue providing an intimate, personalized setting that is perfectly geared toward the singer/songwriter. We can accommodate solo artists, duos and small bands – and also support the creation of podcasts and voiceovers.

“In addition,” Sferes says, ” we can provide instrumental backup music and custom songs for movies, corporate films and advertisements, bringing over 45 years of experience in the music industry to your project as musician, composer, sound engineer and producer.”

The sound studio is located beside his home at the end of Beech Hill Road. Since Sferes and wife Jennifer White moved there in the spring of 2014, it has served as a “classroom” for his guitar-teaching activities. The space has had previous lives as a children’s playroom and a chicken coop.

Today the studio is equipped with the latest computer-based tools for sound recording, editing, mixing and quality-enhancing. A small “isolation booth” used when recording vocalists keeps any extraneous sounds from intruding.

Local artists who have taken advantage of the new facility include Warner’s Carl Beverly, New London’s Kathy Lowe, and an a cappella singing group of Colby-Sawyer students.

In addition to running the studio, Sferes works as an audiovisual specialist at Colby-Sawyer College, sings and plays guitar as one half of the folk/rock duo Sferes and White, and offers guitar lessons at his studio.

For more information, contact Sferes at jimmy@nullsferesandwhite.com or 603-306-2177.