Songwriters Guild Live

Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on artists who write their own songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide. We're mentioned as one of the leading podcasts on songwriting! blog.feedspot.com/songwriting_podcasts/ Rene Elenbaas is a prolific songwriter from Enschede, Twente. He mostly writes songs for other artists. His company StageDriver is taking center stage now. It's an artist platform that you can use to keep in touch with your fanbase through media rich text messages. Check www.stagedriver.com.

Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on artists who write their own songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide. We're mentioned as one of the leading podcasts on songwriting! blog.feedspot.com/songwriting_podcasts/ daMusic: Rarely heard a debut single as surprising as Doktor Rudi. Dansende Beren: According to us, PINGPONGCLUB is on a fast track to become a household name in the Flemish music scene. Luminoush Dash: PINGPONGCLUB without a doubt deserves a spot in the big pool of promising young talent.

Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on artists who write their own songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide. We're mentioned as one of the leading podcasts on songwriting! blog.feedspot.com/songwriting_podcasts/ Biff is the main songwriter of A New International, an eclectic folkband from Glasgow, Scotland. About A New International: From Glasgow to the world, lush, poetic, bittersweet romanticism; an evocative mixture of cinematic strings, circus lights, carnival, cabaret, music hall, gypsy, chanson, a little bit of folk, a little bit of flamenco, yet with pop at its beating heart… Reference points include Scott Walker, Calexico, Beirut, Morricone and more. http://anewinternational.com/

Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on artists who write their own songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide. We're mentioned as one of the leading podcasts on songwriting! blog.feedspot.com/songwriting_podcasts/ Ellen Tackenkamp begon haar muzikale carrière in de straten van Dublin, waar ze met lievelingsnummers van haar grote helden, zoals Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, en Bob Dylan, de regenachtige straten van Temple Bar van een zonnestraaltje voorzag. Terug in Nederland studeerde ze jazz aan het conservatorium van Amsterdam, waar ze kennis maakte met het werk van de grote songwriters uit The Great American Songbook. Haar grote passie voor de samensmelting van tekst en muziek spoorde haar aan om de Engelstalige poëzie onder de loep te nemen, en ze studeerde vervolgens Engelse Taal en Cultuur aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam. Goed beslagen ten ijs zocht ze in 2016 de rust en natuur op van haar geboortestreek, de Achterhoek, dit keer met genoeg lef om zelf de pen ter hand te nemen. Haar composities resulteerden in het uitbrengen van haar solo-debuut album “Letters” in het voorjaar van 2019. Ellen's songs zijn persoonlijk en ontwapenend, en daardoor universeel. Ze neemt je mee op een reis door het menselijk bestaan, en doet dit met humor en een afwisselend programma, waarin ze ook bekende en minder bekende songs van haar collega's en helden ten gehore brengt. Ellen maakt verder deel uit van de succesvolle pop/folk formatie Woolf, en schrijft momenteel muziek voor het gedichtenproject “TIME,” dat in 2020 opgevoerd & opgenomen zal worden i.s.m. het duo De Thuiskomst (accordeon & viool) Met haar Letters tour reist ze momenteel de wereld over.

Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on artists who write their own songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide. We're mentioned as one of the leading podcasts on songwriting! blog.feedspot.com/songwriting_podcasts/ "My name is Luke Watterson. I'm a Singer/songwriter based in Scotland & Ireland. I Play acoustic guitar mainly but i write full band pieces and lyrics. I feel it's important to be yourself as a artist understanding what music about."

Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on artists who write their own songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide. We're mentioned as one of the leading podcasts on songwriting! blog.feedspot.com/songwriting_podcasts/ Eyal: Eyal is een verhalenverteller die het hele alternatieve folk-, rock- en indie oeuvre bespeelt in eigenwijze, melodieuze, verhalende liedjes. Radiator King: Somewhere between punk and blues – a porch and an alley – lies Radiator King, the performing/recording name of Boston native and Brooklyn based, Adam Silvestri. Established in 2011, Radiator King’s music shows influences from both Dylan and Strummer with a sound described by Boston blog Allston Pudding as something akin to what “Tom Waits locked in a room for a month with nothing but a copy of Springsteen’s Nebraska” might produce. Whether alone with a guitar or backed by a band, Radiator King embodies the raw energy of punk, the grit and intricacy of delta blues, and the lyrical potency of folk in “songs that are the sonic equivalent to an old whiskey bar at the end of a dirt road.” In early 2019, Radiator King, the musician behind 2017’s A Hollow Triumph After All released his newest project — the Roll the Dice EP, via SoundEvolution records. Imbued with the pugilistic grit and deft lyrical instincts that have long defined the songwriting of Adam Silvestri, Roll the Dice’s lead track “Raylene” serves dually as a thematic continuance of steps taken and a turning point in Silvestri’s development and direction as songsmith.

Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on artists who write their own songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide. We're mentioned as one of the leading podcasts on songwriting! blog.feedspot.com/songwriting_podcasts/ "What I truly believe is that music and myself are made out of the exact same thing. I do this not for any notoriety or fortune, but because I am literally called to do it from the deepest part of my being. There is nothing else on earth that even comes close to music." - Wil Key Los Angeles-based artist and producer, Wil Key, is the genuine article! A triple-threat studio veteran who has produced, recorded and performed with some of the finest talent on the planet including members of Linkin Bridge (America’s Got Talent, Jimmy Fallon), R&B/Jazz singer Miki Howard, The Flobots (Universal Records) Def Jam recording artists Playa, whose subsequent debut album was produced by Timbaland and features Missy Elliot and the late Aaliyah among others. The Louisville, Kentucky native, who sings and plays several instruments, has also worked extensively with former JIVE recording artists L.A .Ganz, with whom he attended the High School of The Performing Arts as a Theater and Music major. The group recorded fifteen tracks for the label, four of which went on to be included on Major-Motion-Picture soundtracks including Booty Call, Phat Beach and The Long Kiss Good Night (Samuel L. Jackson). In addition to co-sequencing the LA Ganz song "Count On Me," which is featured on the soundtrack for the New Line Cinema release Dangerous Ground (Ice Cube), Wil also performs the piano solo. Wil is an alum of Howard University (Fine Arts) in Washington, D.C - home to several highly talented contemporaries including Chris Dave, Gorden Campbell, Sy Smith, Maritri Garrett, Marlon Wayans and Eric Roberson (to name a few). He moved to Denver and studied graduate audio recording for 2 years at the University of Colorado at Denver (UCD) with Roy Pritts. While there, he received honorable mention from legendary producer and engineer, Eddie Kramer (Jimi Hendrix, Led Zepplin), for his production and performance of the original song "Dandelion" which is featured on the school's CD release for that year, as well as Wil's solo debut CD entitled "Gypsy." Wil went on to receive a Masters of Music in Jazz Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has been a guest lecturer at several college campuses including the University of Louisville, and the University of Northern Colorado where he has presented courses on keyboard technology and software synthesis. He currently teaches college-level Music Production courses in Hollywood, CA and runs his own recording studio in South Bay, Los Angeles called The Bridge.

Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on artists who write their own songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide. We're mentioned as one of the leading podcasts on songwriting! blog.feedspot.com/songwriting_podcasts/ The Other Way Around is een popband uit Deventer en omstreken. Zij spelen melodieuze popmuziek, vaak met onverwachte wendingen, waarmee zij de randen van de popmuziek verkennen. Denk aan bands als The Beatles met vleugjes Radiohead en Pixies. De band bestaat uit Karel Tadema, Huig Bergsma en Joren Strijbos. Alle drie gerijpt, gepokt en gemazeld door cover-, studio-, en begeleidingswerk. Toch komt de meeste lol van het spelen van eigen werk!

Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on artists who write their own songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide. We're mentioned as one of the leading podcasts on songwriting! blog.feedspot.com/songwriting_podcasts/ Luca Di Maio is and Italian singer songwriter currently travelling around Italy and Europe to promote his second album ''Piccole Armi / Grandi Imprese'', produced by and recorded with guitarist Alessandro “Asso” Stefana (P.J. Harvey, Mike Patton, Vinicio Capossela). The record displays alternative folk-pop songs inspired both by world and contemporary music, enriched by precious electronic intermissions and has been collecting great recognition from critics and audience alike. Luca will play an intimate solo set, a not-to-be-missed opportunity to listen to a stripped down version of his tunes.

Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on artists who write their own songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide. We're mentioned as one of the leading podcasts on songwriting! blog.feedspot.com/songwriting_podcasts/ Ken Stead is a singer & songwriter from Edmonton, Canada. He used to be only into Hiphop, until his mother took him for punishment to a Folk Festival. There he got inspired by the artist Erik Bipp, and Ken took another road from there. Now after a couple of years of being a growing success in Canada he hopes to connect to the Europeans just as much. Last May he finished his new album 'Civil War'. " Ken is known for silencing a room to a whisper, but with his new release, Civil War, he proves capable of starting an uproar. With more volume, comes more space to make heartfelt moments rattle through your chest." Whether Ken plays alone or with his full band, Ken Stead makes every room feel like home. With his generous, good humour and and empathy with the audience, his accomplishments are as true and honest as his songs.

Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on artists who write their own songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide. We're mentioned as one of the leading podcasts on songwriting! https://blog.feedspot.com/songwriting_podcasts/ Bianca De Leon is an Austin, TX based singer/songwriter dubbed “Queen of the border ballad” by John Nova Lomax, and “A voice from Texas that does it right”, by Guy Clark. She has been touring Europe (Germany, Holland, Finland, Belgium, Scotland, England, Italy) since 2001. Bianca has had 5 EU releases and a recent EU and US release, “Love, Guns & Money.” She was invited to perform at Berklee College of Music in 2015 in the round with Eliza Gilkyson, and Betty Soo. Upcoming tours of the Midwest and Europe are slated for 2019. She has a sultry and mysterious voice that complements her writing and she is an accomplished guitar player, utilizing both finger-picking and flat picking. Jimmy Robinson has been recording and touring for over 40 years. He has received critical and audience praise for his unique virtuoso approach to the guitar, and his rich compositional skill. Jimmy first made a name for himself playing electric guitar and leading the psychedelic rock/blues band Ejaculation (yes, you read correctly, it was 1968, after all...) at the Free Concert weekly series on New Orleans Riverfront.. He went on to front The Progrock band Laugh In The Dark in the 70’s, and in 1975 founded the celebrated instrumental rock fusion band Woodenhead . Woodenhead performs today, and is celebrating their 40th anniversary with a special performance at The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in May, 2015, as well as releasing a recording of new material, a live concert from New Orleans’ famed Tipitina’s and a reissue of their entire, remastered catalog. He also founded the New Orleans Guitar Collective Twangorama , with guitarists Phil deGruy and Cranston Clements, and later The New Orleans Guitar Quartet .

Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on artists who write their own songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide. With just an upright bass, two old guitars and a bucketful of aching harmony, The Goat Roper Rodeo band are preaching ‘Country Blues’ like you never heard. It’s up, it’s down, it’s soft and loud, it’s dark and lonesome too, there’s hurt and shame and some mean old pain but you bet there’s love in what they do! There’s a hint of Gram, a sniff of Dylan and a twist of Waylon’s blues ... Simply put: it’s exactly what it says on the tin. Ter promotie van de CD Onontgonnen Gebied doet liedjesschrijver Henk Lammers aka Paco Plumtrek (dezelfde naam als z'n kleine podium in Almelo) een tour van Amsterdam, in april 2019. Onontgonnen Gebied is zijn derde CD, en z’n eerste in het Nederlands. Het laat zich omschrijven als akoestisch, maatschappijkritisch, romantisch, wispelturig. Na 15 jaar als straatmuzikant de wereld te hebben rondgereisd is hij al weer enige tijd de mooiste speelplekken van Nederland aan het ontdekken. Op akoestische gitaar en mondharmonica, met veel eigen werk en een paar covers in het Nederlands en in het Engels.

Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on artists who write their own songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide. We're mentioned as one of the leading podcasts on songwriting! blog.feedspot.com/songwriting_podcasts/ At first, when you listen to Rachman’s music you’ll hear traces of folk, blues and soul. But when you listen more closely more aspects of the music reveal itself. The clear melodies, the intricate fingerpicking and the lyrics that build scenes in which you can wander endlessly. Rachman’s craft is all about the song, taking cues from heroes like: Stevie wonder, Bill Withers, The Fleet foxes and John Mayer. Small songs with big intent, songs that celebrate life.

Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on artists who write their own songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide. We're mentioned as one of the leading podcasts on songwriting! blog.feedspot.com/songwriting_podcasts/ Lucette van den Berg is één van de toonaangevende stemmen van de nieuwe generatie jiddische zangeressen. Ze heeft opgetreden in theaters, concertzalen en festivals in Europa en Noord-Amerika. Al op jonge leeftijd wist ze, dat muziek haar leven zou worden. Al op 18 jarige leeftijd startte zij met haar studie klassiek zang aan het conservatorium van Zwolle en later Amsterdam, won een tweede plaats bij het Euregio Vocalisten Concours en legde zich toe op liedrecitals en oratorium, terwijl zij in haar studeerkamer, voor haar eigen plezier, jiddische liedjes begon te zingen. Misschien één van de meest belangrijke gebeurtenissen in het muzikale leven van Lucette is de ontmoeting en vriendschap met de bekende Jiddische componiste/schrijfster Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, die haar bewust maakte van haar joodse ‘roots’. Van den Berg verbleef langere tijd bij Beyle in New York en ontving nog niet eerder gepubliceerde liederen van haar. Lucette arrangeerde ze en bracht ze uit op de CD ‘Friling’ (hiervoor kreeg ze een derde prijs JPF Song Award 2009, USA). 
De keuze voor het Jiddisch lied was definitief gemaakt. 

Lucette ontwikkelde zich op geheel eigen wijze in het Jiddische repertoire. Zoekend naar haar stem, haar kracht, haar achtergrond en haar eigen invulling van het Jiddische lied. Zo ontwikkelde ze een geheel eigen stijl, die het midden houdt tussen kleinkunst en 'art-song', met teksten die haar aanspreken. In de loop van de tijd hebben al meerdere componisten, als Alan Bern (Brave Old World), Mikhoel Felsenbaum nieuw Jiddisch repertoire geschreven. Zij wil de Jiddische muziek niet alleen laten horen in al haar pracht, maar ook verder ontwikkelen. Daarom is zij initiator en artistiek directeur van het Yiddish Waves Festival, dat in 2008 voor het eerst plaatsvond. Lucette is een opvallende performer, met een uitzonderlijke warme en expressieve stem met geheel eigen geluid. Haar unieke repertoire omvat nieuw materiaal dat door componisten als o.a. Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, Alan Bern (Brave Old World) en dichter/componist Mikhoel Felsenbaum, maar ook Jiddische composities van haar eigen hand.

Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on artists who write their own songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide. We're mentioned as one of the leading podcasts on songwriting! blog.feedspot.com/songwriting_podcasts/ Reinis has come here all the way from Latvia, Riga, he is a passionate traveler and even more passionate guitar player. For many years Reinis has travelled all around the Europe, New Zealand, Australia and Asia sharing his exceptional guitar skills and original songs using different kinds of guitar playing techniques – including tapping, percussions, and finger-picking. With his guitar performances, inspired by his travels, Reinis brings energetic performance to audiences and in his creative work he has released already four solo albums.