Songwriters Guild Live

Emma Elba is a singer-songwriter from Amsterdam. she grew up with folk (from Irish Xmas tunes to idealistic hippie songs) and you can easily hear that back in her subtle songs. Her songs can silence the roughest sailor and tell about love, nostalgia, and nature's phenomenons. WPL de Witte is a recovering alcoholic (7 months in), and as part of treatment started to compulsively write songs. Since J...

The Early Spring is a singer-songwriter from Belgium. Her indie folk universe is influenced by everything that surrounds her. She writes about her personal experiences, but also what she witnesses, hears and sees. Passionate of adventures, travelling and meeting new people, The Early Spring wants to share her music a maybe create some special memories along the way. Job Cornelissen, (Assen,1964) l...

Earopener works according to the principals of both Miles Davis and Pablo Picasso: compositions are never finished and always moving forward. This produces deeply emotional and ever changing Acoustic Soul from the Amsterdam formation, that frequently changes itself too. Expect the music to be gripping, moody and above all highly original. Earopener regulars are three very versatile musicians and a...

Jelle Visser: "Een groot deel van mijn muziek is geschreven in de tijd nadat ik een operatie had aan mijn been en niet kon lopen. Met mijn geopereerde been omhoog bracht ik de dagen door in mijn kamer, achter de piano, met mijn gitaar en een crappy microfoon aan mijn zij. De nummers banen zich inhoudelijk een weg door mijn onrustige gedachten, mijn grootvader en, jawel, de liefde. Toen ik weer kon...

Bill Parker: "When I saw The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show in February, 1964, my life changed from black & white to Technicolor, with a capital “T.” Three years later, I joined my first band, a kid bass player slinging Top 40 hits. By the time I switched to guitar four years after that, I had become well-versed in Top 40, soul (Stax & Atlantic Records, rather than Motown), rock & roll, rock, and...

Eindhoven based singer-songwriter Aidan & the Wild has been working hard to show the world a piece of his music, both as a solo artist and with his band. Heroes such as Ben Howard, John Butler, The Tallest Man On Earth and John Smith and a profound love for ancient myths and stories about lost times create a very distinct sound. The great common divider within the music is folk, but within the gen...

Ilmari Läntinen is a singer, a guitar player and a songwriter from Finland. He is currently living in Amsterdam studying and making music. His music mixes different Rock genres from Punk to Folk and from Hard to Blues. In Finland Ilmari has been part of bands such as Cold Cargo and has performed on the most renowned stages in the capital, Helsinki. During his 6 months in Amsterdam, Ilmari has been...

Americana singer-songwriter Jasper Schalks just brought out his debut album: These Things Shall Pass. He also is a major force behind the songwriter scene in Alkmaar, though he now lives in Amsterdam. 10 Strings Shuffle is an acoustic pop duo, consisting of Dzuana on vocals and guitar, and Jaap on double bass. Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on singers who write...

Courtney Yasmineh is a singer/songwriter from Chicago/NYC/Minneapolis. She is currently promoting her upcoming seventh album and the publishing of her first novel based on Courtney's own mythic backstory of the runaway teen who went to live alone in northern Minnesota, the birthplace of Bob Dylan, and in discovering his music she discovered her own. Courtney is on a six week tour in Europe and the...

Wynnm is a singer songwriter from Pocatello, Idaho living in Amsterdam, Netherlands whose dreamy vocals and melodic guitar riffs have connected with audiences since her young years playing open mic nights in her family's small café. With songs inspired by artists and lyricists like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Bon Iver and the Staves, Wynnm seeks to use music to connect with the commonalities of human...

Jacob de Berker is a UK singer/songwriter penning lyrically intricate and honest songs which he sings to either guitar or banjo. After performing around the UK for years; appearing at Edinburgh Fringe, Glastonbury and venues throughout London and the south of England he moved to Amsterdam early last year armed only with a couple of changes of clothes and a desire to get out of london and do some a...

Rose Marin lives near Alkmaar, Netherlands. She makes a fusion of folk, country and pop. She writes great songs and I'm happy to have her on the show! Paolo Morena is on tour with Magnapop, and can't stop talking! That makes for great radio, but he also has a great voice so his songs are excellent. Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on singers who write songs. This...

Seven-time San Diego Music Award nominee Gayle Skidmore has written over 2000 songs since she began songwriting at the age of 8. Her natural ability and innate passion for music made her music career inevitable, and her tumultuous life has given her plenty of inspiration. Translating her experiences into song has been more than just personally fulfilling. Gayle Skidmore won Best Pop in the 2015 Sa...

Wouter Marijne is a singer-songwriter from Utrecht, The Netherlands. After more than 100 gigs with his band Sailing To Suez, he finally has found some time to fulfill one of his dreams: creating a solo EP. This record, called “Laughing Man” was inspired by singer-songwriters such as Jeff Buckley, Pete Doherty, John Mayer and Ryan Adams but also by bands like Oasis, The Smiths and R.E.M. Because of...

Ryan Gaughan is a travelling musician who plays in a solid rock band called Among Criminals. You can tell by the way he dives into his solos: taking no prisoners. He's got a lot of good things to say about the life of being an artist, going for broke. Marijn Slager is well known in the Netherlands as frontman of rock band Nuff Said, and other outfits. Now he's taking a solo acoustic turn with his...

Aad Luymes (61) is a late bloomer with just his first solo album in his pocket. In daily life he is an editor at the press agency. As a journalist, he visited many countries, including Iraq and Afghanistan. But also the musical adventure drew. Aad Luymes has been playing in the Zaanse band Trefik (for which he wrote the most songs) for ten years before he decided in early 2016 to record his own so...

Frank Schagen has been writing German-language songs for two years under the name Klausing. The music of Klausing is quirky. It is a melting pot of a musical journey through, among other things, flamenco, classical, jazz and world music. The texts are direct and poetic. Some descriptions of listeners are: "Schubert goes jazz", "all Zen" "the music is sometimes oppressive, accentuated by carefully...

Dutch Cassidy: a little bit country, a little bit rock’n’roll. Songs that don’t shy away from describing intimate personal challenges and crossing lines. Hey, it’s cheaper than therapy!” is how this singer/songwriter describes his songwriting. Stephen James Howard is a forty-something English bedroom singer-songwriter and former street busker still tinkering with home recording and live performanc...

Jasmine Karimova is a multimedia artist working primarily within the fields of music and the visual arts. Accompanying herself on guitar and piano, Karimova’s music is fueled by her background in classical piano and her love for lyrical imagery. Walking the tightrope between strength and vulnerability, Karimova’s music is a juxtaposition of the darker and lighter corners of human emotion. Often co...

The radioshow of today, with StarFishTaxi as our live guest. StarFishTaxi is a singer-songwriter who enjoys playing solo, but also doesn't flinch from playing with a loud band. He keeps on tinkering with his songs until he's fully satisfied! We also played songs of Terence Roelofsen and Folk Road Show, who played here last week. I played a song of Chinup live at Vondelbunker, that's a first! Other...

With the amazing Folk Road Show, intimate and lovely Terence Roelofsen, and the always sweet Leendert Roosenbrand for his Aardbei movie. Folk Road Show is an international group of singer-songwriters, who tour around the world, and sound like CSNY but younger, edgier, and with a trombone. Plus I have to assume they actually like each other! Terence Roelofsen is an intimate and poetic singer-songwr...

Max Poolman is new on the scene, only songwriting for the last 1,5 years. But you wouldn't hear it in his songs: they're absolutely fabulous. And his voice sounds like he's seen it all. Great indiefolk talent! Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on singers who write songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide.

Robert Cline Jr. is a songwriter and performer who strives to write songs and shares stories that tell the truth and make people feel what you feel inside. Robert Cline Jr.’s career began as a collaboration with members of The Subdudes, and continued his career playing and writing with members of the Muscle Shoals community, one of the legendary birthplaces of American music. Songwriters Guild Liv...

Aaron English & Elizabeth Hareza are a songwriting duo from Utah. They tour around the world and don't skip places like Uganda while at it, picking up traditional songs along the way. Dusty Stray is an indiefolk artist who, after a year of living in his motherland USA, came back with a handful of protest songs. The EP 'USA' came out yesterday, precisely a year after the election of the Orange Man....

Two hardened indie country stars are making their way into our studio today. Douglas Greer and Dick LeMasters both get some cues from hardcore troubadours like Steve Earle, but make the genre wholly their own through meticulous and deep songwriting. They give us some great insights on how to achieve those stellar lyrics. Talking of stellar: Petra Jordan interviews Judy Stakee again on songwriting....