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.

Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on artists who write their own songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide. Zak Perry & The Beautiful Things!! Money and Lust and Power and Fame and Greed and Love and Sex and Lies and Videotapes and More Sex and Murder and Ferraris and Prison and Cops and………….Robberies and Guitars and Cadillacs and Cars and Motorcycles and Car Wrecks and Car Chases and Corruption and Sabotage and Fisticuffs and Internal Injuries and Chocolate Frosting and Lesbians and Fairies…in Boots….and Wild Dogs and Jaguars and Broken Bones and Broken Dreams and….Broken Speakers and Broken Glass Paradise and Broken E Strings and Broken F Strings and Strings and Things and Hi-Tech Wizardry and Photography and Pornography and Geography……and Power Tools and Power Chords and Cripples and Gambling and Baby Snakes and Baby Spiders and Baby Al.…..and Fat Chicks and Fried Chicks and Stones and Seeds and Stems and Tears and Fears and Tears for Fears…………and Face-Mauling Mongrels and Cheerleaders and Mistaken Identities and Natives and Maniacs and Tie-Dyed, Soul Stealing Gypsy Freaks!! Now, c’mon! With a history like that, how can you not come out and see a show?!

Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on artists who write their own songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide. Imora Mariël (28) uit Enschede lanceert op zondag 24 maart van 14.30 tot 17.00 uur haar eerste EP in Metropool Enschede. De singer-songwriter heeft een EP met zes nummers gemaakt. De EP heet ‘A Loving Heart met haar eerste single ‘Morning in May’. De Enschedese zingt en schrijft al tien jaar, maar bracht niet eerder een EP uit. Ze schrijft Engelstalige popliedjes die makkelijk in het gehoor liggen. ‘Ik val onder de rustigere singer-songwriters, met wat country-invloed. Ik begeleid mezelf op gitaar. Inspiratie haal ik vooral uit mijn liefdesleven en het dagelijkse leven. Zo gaat ‘Noah’ over een jongetje dat voor mij in de rij op het vliegveld in Londen stond’, aldus Imora Mariël. De zangeres hoopt met dit album door te breken. ‘Ik krijg goede reacties op de nieuwe nummers. Voor de komende zomer staan er al meer optredens dan voorheen gepland. Ik heb heel veel zin in 24 maart en hoop op een volle zaal.’ Voor meer info kijk op de Facebookpagina van Imora Mariël Music en op haar instagrampagina (imoramariel).

Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on artists who write their own songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide. This week we sit down with Max, Dutch and Mustang to talk about the February Album Writing Month, or better known as FAWM. Check it out at http://FAWM.org. You commit yourself to write 14 songs in a month, in an international online community of songwriters. Takeaway: it's fun and you learn a lot!

Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on artists who write their own songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide. Sinds twee jaar schrijft Frank Schagen onder de naam Klausing Duitstalige liederen. De muziek van Klausing is eigenzinnig. Ze is een smeltkroes van een muzikale reis door onder andere flamenco, klassiek, jazz en wereldmuziek. De teksten zijn direkt en poetisch. Enkele omschrijvingen van luisteraars zijn: “Schubert goes jazz”, “helemaal Zen” “de muziek is soms beklemmend, geaccentueerd door zorgvuldig gekozen dissonanten” en “klassieke avantgarde Rammstein”. Als gitarist heeft Frank een opleiding genoten aan het Fontys conservatorium te Tilburg. Binnen het duo Emunah schrijft en concerteert hij al ruim 10 jaar met eigen instrumentale muziek. Nu met Klausing geniet Frank van de scheppingsruimte, waarin klank- en taalexpressie hand in hand gaan. Naast het maken van muziek geeft Klausing in het ritme van de week yogalessen, gitaarlessen en improvisatiesessies. Sinds twee jaar geeft hij ook Duits in het speciaal voortgezet onderwijs. Vaak reiken de ervaringen in deze werkvelden Frank kiemen aan voor een volgend Klausing-lied. Klausing heeft een eigen stijl ontwikkeld, waarin tekst en muziek samen op gaan. De liederen ontspruiten uit een kiem en vol groeien in de wisselwerking tussen vol overgave klinken en bezinnend tekst schrijven. De muziek vindt zijn voeding in de flamenco, jazz en klassieke muziek. In zijn teksten klinkt een poëtische schrijfstijl. Een veelvoud van omschrijvingen als "Schubert goes jazz", "klassieke avantgarde Rammstein", "Herman Veen", "Bertold Brecht" geven wel weer dat de luisteraar zijn oor in deze muziek kan leggen. De liederen van Klausing zijn zowel teder als indringend. Zijn gitaarspel verrast door onverwachte ritmische wendingen en doorvoelde harmonieën. Opgeleid aan het fontys conservatorium in Tilburg heeft hij zich zowel in de tradities van de klassieke muziek als ook in de bewegingsvrijheden van de jazz kunnen verdiepen. Ook heeft hij zich enkele jaren verdiept in de flamenco. Het is de doorleefde reis door de verschillende, die de muziek van Klausing een heel eigen karakter geven.

Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on artists who write their own songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide. Let’s start with a name-drop: over the past 20 years, Michael Dean Damron has played and toured with some of the greatest American songwriters in history: Alejandro Escovedo, Lucero, Rocky Votolato, Chad Price, Mike Watt, Eddie Spaghetti, Reverend Horton Heat, Drive by Truckers, David Allen Coe, Jerry Joseph, Slim Cessna's Auto Club, Neko Case... Damron is tired, hopeful, and excited to play for new folks in a different part of the world. Oh, and he HATES to fly. Just another fear to overcome. On his upcoming tour of Belgium and Netherlands, Damron will be backed by the best there is, bassist Allen Hunter of Eels fame and guitarist/producer Dan Eccles of Richmond Fontaine and Fernando. A subtly powerful trio to make you shout, cry, and remember what it means to be alive.

Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on artists who write their own songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide. Bubblegum Slut/ UK: « A paradoxical mix of a Yorkshire man’s Northern bluntness that tells it like it is and a “continental poetic tongue which educates and stirs…! » - Stylusmag/ Canada: « Berry has a keen intellect, a disdain for those buffered from reality, and an internalized anger that fuels the vitriol in every adjective. It is real life undecorated, and smoulders like the everyday pressures. This is fucking brilliant. Clean glass please, and leave the bottle! » With the aid of an acoustic guitar or piano he sits centre-stage and recounts with his powerful seducing voice the tales of his life on the back streets of Leeds/England, his touring years through to his crippling road accident in Brighton/ England. In the 80s he was the guitarist & founding member to the successful Rock/Goth band, The Rose of Avalanche, which produced many great albums and singles. Eventually enough was enough and he broke up the band in the 90s and embarked on a solo career under his own name. He played in every possible venue in the UK and Europe. 3 solo albums later (PJB, Ginnel and Nations) which saw him support giants of the songwriting genre such as Frank Black, Vic Chestnutt, Kevin Coyne, David Bowie, Howe Gelb, Townes Van Zandt, he is now back. After rehabilitating from his accident, he has a new album ‘Spitfire Jukebox 1’. It’s mainly one instrument and voice that give a beautiful raw insight to the human soul. It reveals a personal account of the last few years. Touches on a cathartic necessity to get through the nightmare of his road accident to the celebration of life itself. Recorded in Berlin in the vast hall of the famous UFO-Studios, an old brewery which doubled-up as a bunker in the second world war. «when I arrived at the studio in Berlin, there was this colossal old hall that just had ‘something’ that moved me. So, I said to the man, get me a chair, put it in the middle of the hall and record me bleeding….» «the whole point of this album was to be in control and do everything myself - for good or bad - no rules and no bull shit! Just me and my demons>>

Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on artists who write their own songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide. A Montréal-born Trinidadian-Canadian, Zaynab comes to the music scene with a wealth of cultural and musical diversity. Her recent Live EP (2018), is the debut to her career as a fronting singer-songwriter where she draws musical and rhythmic inspiration from her Caribbean roots and merges with folk, her heart and soul. Her voice is sweet, unaffected and naturally blended, and carries a strong sense of rhythm. Zaynab grew up in a large family of musicians, specializing on Steelpan, and got an early start to the life of an artist. Being the youngest of the lot of six children, the formula was already set by the time she was six. Zaynab was performing throughout Eastern Canada with her family, the "Von-Trapps of Steelpan", and gaining invaluable life lessons. Now, in addition to steelpan, Zaynab has grown into a sensitive, dynamic and well-rounded musician and is an equally talented percussionist, vocalist, songwriter and drummer, holding a drum-major degree from Humber College. Over the years, Zaynab has had the opportunity to perform with a variety of local and international artists including Alysha Brilla, Jason Wilson, Martin Carthy, Dave Swarbrick and Pee Wee Ellis, and performing at notable festivals including Woodford Folk Festival (Australia), Hillside Festival (Canada) and Celtic Connections (Scotland). On her own front, Zaynab took her Live EP tour on the road to Western Canada in September 2018 and over to Eastern Canada with Arlene Paculan in November 2018, performing in both house concerts and local live music venues. As for 2019, Zaynab is working towards releasing a series of singles, a new EP and tour dates, so far, in both Canada and USA. When she isn’t performing, Zaynab runs music workshops at various schools within the multiple school boards in Ontario. Her workshops are delivered using steelpan, percussion or band instruments with the goal being more than learning repertoire. Her workshops run in schools with higher numbers of newcomers to Canada, for groups with special learning abilities, as part of health and wellness conferences and for overall team building and strengthening of non-verbal and nonviolent communication. She recently attended a Musicians Without Borders Training of Workshop Leaders program, in Ede, to help enhance her workshop leading abilities. In a realistic world, Zaynab would be able to integrate touring as a performer and running music-based workshops along the way.

With a commanding voice and remarkable melodic sensibilities, Laura Reznek makes music that is at once haunting and uplifting. Her songs offer an intimate look into the surreal world formed of memories by the restless mind, often needing little more than the dexterous flow of fingers across a piano to transform the raw material of a single human life into an expression of consciousness’ inherent uncertainty. Not conforming to the trappings of any single genre, Laura’s music is well aware of the vast Western canon upon whose shoulders it stands; listen closely and you will hear subtle homages to everything from mid-century cool jazz, blues, and gospel to modern folk and experimental pop. With such respect for tradition embedded in the music itself, Laura is able to flout modern musical norms in the framing of her live performances: you are more likely to find her playing in a bookshop, bell tower, or canal boat and see her sharing the stage with poets and chamber quartets. Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on artists who write their own songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide.

The moody orchestra is a project of Amsterdam based, German singer- songwriter Tobias Oeckler. While mostly playing live on his own, his recorded works reach from fragile songwriting craft to collaborated tunes in more ,orchestrated’ garments, so to say. His latest albums ‚a big step’ and ‚aum’, that he simultaneously self-produced, clearly show this vibrant mix of contradicting opposites. His songs are characterized by their personal and poetic lyrics, sometimes cryptic and mysterious, sometimes chrystal clear, but almost always carried out in a cleansing melancholic mood. Combining elements of folk, punk, pop and roots rock, Matt Pless can lyrically turn a phrase with the best of them. He has been compared to some of the top songwriters of our time, including John Lennon, Paul Simon, John Prine and Bob Dylan. Known for his engaging and thought-provoking, witty, word labyrinths, Matt's music spans topics from love and loss to social commentary to ethereal train-of-thought abstractions, and everything in between. Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on artists who write their own songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide.

Guillaume Maupin (Saintonge records/ Matamore) sings songs since a very early age. Of course, humour does belong to music, and traditonnal, orginals, covers, wicked, strange songs are all part of his shows. Working solo or with other artists (Eugene Chadbourne, Beck, Lonely Kid Quentin, Mihai Iordache, Dead Western, Arrington de Dionyso, Euphorium freakestra, Portron Bros...) sharing stages with very various acts (Jeffrey Lewis, The Ex, Old Time Relijun, The Fall, René Binamé, ..) and playing around the world (Siberia, USA, UK, Kenya, France, Germany, Switzerland, Portugal, Romania, Poland, Czech rep,...) he loves to provoke fruitful encounters. In his now celebrated Human Jukebox project, with his bands Music for Rabbits, Tartine de Clous, his conference/concerts, or through his Film Water Music, or solo, playing in houses, concert halls, bars,cinemas, he always take the audience for a fun multinlingual ride. "While many performers on the folk scene consider themselves lucky if they can be judged decent in one style and interpret a few songs exceptionally well, this talent is expansive, with challenging conclusions, the swords of skill rattling and clashing in an enjoyable duel. Guillaume is not best at singing in English, French, or German; at being funny or deadly serious; at vocalizing or simply playing haunting, fingerpicking instrumental passages -- he is simply great at all these things" Eugene Chadbourne Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on artists who write their own songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide.

Live session with Shane Alexander, the prolific Californian singer-songwriter who was on tour in The Netherlands! I also played some songs from the session with Jerry Spurlock, plus a song of Ana Souls, who'll play on the show next week. Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on artists who write their own songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide.

Radioshow with our live guest Thomas Triemstra. We also played music of Jesse Terry, Dusty Stray, Whitherward, YORI, Shane Alexander and Siv Jakobsen, who all played on the show before. Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on artists who write their own songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide.

This week we combine two bonus sessions I recorded with The Brother Brothers, and Hannah Trigwell. The Brother Brothers is a vocal duo group from New York, consisting of identical twins. They remind me a lot of Simon & Garfunkel and The Everly Brothers. Hannah Trigwell is a singer-songwriter from Leeds, who has a major following on Youtube. She started out her success with posting videos of acoustic covers on her channel. Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on artists who write their own songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide.

Radioshow with Cat Dail Music and Julian du Perron as live guests :) We also played music of Jerry Spurlock, who'll play on the show next week. Plus music from WOLKEN (Robin Block & Rita Zipora) and Gitta de Ridder, who all played on the show before. Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on artists who write their own songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide.

Radioshow with Dusty Stray as live guest, presenting his new album. We also played music of Cat Dail Music, Tangarine, Julian du Perron, Anne Janelle, Susie Asado and Long Conversations, who have all played on the show before. Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on singers who write their own songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide.

The radioshow with Maddy Moreah and band as our live guests. We also played music from Dusty Stray, Chagall, Rina Mushonga, Peter Piek, Gitta de Ridder and Hannah Trigwell, who all played on the show before, and have new music out! Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on singers who write their own songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide.

Radioshow with Steve Jenner and Nicole Stella as live guests. We also played music of Maddy Moreah, who'll play next week on the show. Plus music from The Partisan Seed, Chris Pureka and Gayle Skidmore, who all played on the show before. Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on singers who write their own songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide.

Radioshow with Daithi Rua and Vincent MacDonald as our live guests. We also played music from Nicole Stella, Tessa Belinfante and Piper Hayes, who all played on the show before. As an extra treat, I interviewed Petra Jordan about her Essential Songwriting Course at Max Guitar, The Hague. Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on singers who write their own songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide.

Radioshow with Skye Wallace, Nick Faye and The Deputies (but without the deputies), and Rene Elenbaas as our live guests. I also played music of Hannah Trigwell, who'll play on a bonus session next week! Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on singers who write their own songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide.

Radioshow with Anna Pancaldi and Tom Bright & The Dynamite as our live guests. We also played music of Skye Wallace and Nick Faye and The Deputies, who'll play on the show next week. Plus the new single from The Brother Brothers, whom I recorded a bonus session with! Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on singers who write their own songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide.

Radioshow with Berend Bonsema aka Bear Bozeman as our live guest. We also played music of Anna Pancaldi and Tom Bright & The Dynamite, who'll both play on the show in 2 weeks time. Plus some music from Angela Moyra, Emma Elba, Robin Kester, Beato Music and No Ninja Am I, who all played on the show before. Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on singers who write their own songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide.

Radioshow with Nurk as our live act. Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on singers who write their own songs. This week your host was Rufus Kain.

Radioshow with Juliet Garrett as awesome live guest. I also played music of Whitherward and Nelson Clark Music who'll play on the show next week. Plus I also played music of Jack Stafford, Gitta de Ridder, James Cottriall, Little Lapin and Jessy Yasmeen, who all played on the show before. Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on singers who write their own songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide. Juliet Garrett - http://www.julietgarrett.com

Radioshow of July 19! Whitherward is our live act. We also played music of Dipp Jonz, who'll play on the show next week. Plus music from Miss Anthropy, Joey Vriend, Sahil Bahl - Music, Ink Elk, Jasmine Karimova and Nicole Reynolds, who all played on the show before. Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on singers who write their own songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide. Whitherward - http://whitherward.com

Radioshow of July 5! We have radio icon and singer-songwriter Jaap Boots as live guest

Radioshow of June 28 with Andrei Senkevich, and the duo Jimmy Robinson & Lily Kiara as our live guests! I also played music of Dipp Jonz, Jaap Boots and Adelle Nqeto, who'll be playing on the show in the coming weeks. Plus some songs of Emma Elba and Freddy Astaire & The Return, who have all played on the show before. Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on singers who write songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide. Andrei Senkevich - https://soundcloud.com/senkevichmusic Jimmy Robinson - http://jimmyrobinsonmusic.com Lily Kiara - https://www.lilykiara.nl

This is the radioshow of this week with live acts Mummy's a Tree and Michael Feuerstack. We also played music of Andrei Senkevich and Jimmy Robinson, who'll play on the show next week. Plus a new song of Kelle Wardle, who played on the show exactly a year ago. And a snippet of a song by ROWANN, who are organizing a livingroom concert tour called Room For Stories. Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on singers who write songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide. Mummy's a Tree - www.facebook.com/mummysatree Michael Feuerstack - http://michaelfeuerstack.com

Radioshow June 14 with Sam Brookes as our live guest! I also played music of Mummy's a Tree and Eldad Offir who'll be playing on the show next week. Plus some songs of Noam Vazana, Tamara Woestenburg and Lucie Thorne, who have all played on the show before. Sam Brookes is a Bristol-based alternative folk artist whose distinctive voice frequently draws comparisons with Tim Buckley and has landed him features and collaborations with artists as diverse as Lucy Rose and Basement Jaxx. He started life singing for the queen in her private chapel in Windsor great park. His 2011 eponymous debut saw him named a Sunday Times ‘Breaking Act' and his independently released follow up Kairos was picked as one of the best albums of 2014 by The Independent. Considerable streaming success and support slots for the likes of Willy Mason, Scott Matthews and Joan Armatrading have earned Sam a dedicated following and growing anticipation for his third album which is set for release in early 2019. Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on singers who write songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide. Sam Brookes - https://www.sambrookes.com Mummy's a Tree - https://www.facebook.com/mummysatree Eldad Offir - https://www.youtube.com/user/EldadOffir Noam Vazana - http://noam-vazana.com Tamara Woestenburg - http://tamarawoestenburg.com Lucie Thorne - http://www.luciethorne.com

This is the radioshow of June 7! Geertjan Aleven is our live guest. We also played music of Sam Brookes, who'll play next week. And we played music of Jeanne Rouwendaal, StarFishTaxi, Robin Kester, The Sugarettes and Megan Burtt, who all played on the show before. Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on singers who write songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide. Geertjan Aleven - http://www.geertjanalevenmusic.com Sam Brookes - https://www.sambrookes.com Jeanne Rouwendaal - https://www.facebook.com/Jeanne-670403089646425 SatrFishTaxi - https://www.starfishtaxi.com Robin Kester - https://robinkester.bandcamp.com The Sugarettes - https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0002077537 Megan Burtt - http://meganburtt.com

I had a great show with Alex Hedley and Colorway as live guests. Creating a mix of raw talent and seasoned pop instincts. Quite a privilege to be around them! I also played music of Geertjan Aleven who'll play next week, and Dieter van der Westen, Lilac Sheer and Sarah Beatty who played on the show before. Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on singers who write songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide. Alex Hedley https://www.alex-hedley.com Colorway http://www.colorwaymusic.com

We got Zac Vann and G.T. Thomas as our live guests. If you're into quirky and deep songwriting, you're in for a treat! I also played music of Alex Hedley and Colorway, who are both playing on the show next week. Then I played Sleepwalker's Station and Leslie Helpert, who both played on the show before. Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on singers who write songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide. Zac Vann https://soundcloud.com/zacvann/ GT Thomas http://www.gtthomas.com Alex Hedley https://www.alex-hedley.com Colorway http://www.colorwaymusic.com

James Cottrial is quite a popstar in countries like Germany and Austria, but in the Netherlands he has to start from scratch. So nice to see him here on the show! That's the spirit... https://www.jamescottriall.com GT Thomas has so much to say that I invited her over for next week as well. This week she plays her songs with only a bass guitar. And it sounds awesome! http://www.gtthomas.com Jeanie is from Amsterdam, and she tells it like it is. Talking about her stage fright, and the things she does to help others with it as well. Great songs! https://www.jeanie-music.com Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on singers who write songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide.

Rufus Kain is filling in as host of this show when Ro is not there. This time he's here as a live guest, playing his songs and sharing his gold re the music industry. Rufus is both singer-songwriter and journalist covering the music industry. Collin Hoeve is the world's fastest songwriter, but today on the show he's telling us about his new album, which he meticulously works on. He's also sharing his pop-songs live. Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on singers who write songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide.

Annelies Jonkers maakt tijdloze folk muziek. Ze begeleidt zichzelf op autoharp, piano en viool. Met haar heldere stem zingt ze haar eigen verhalen, die je meevoeren naar andere werelden, dichtbij of ver weg. Overdag kun je haar zien spelen op de straten van Amsterdam, 's avonds op intieme podia in het hele land. Wieger Troostheide: "De liedjes die ik schrijf bewegen zich ergens in het spectrum van pop, blues en folk. Ze zijn intens maar toegankelijk, catchy maar goed doordacht. Over liefde en dood, whisky en verhuizingen. Meestal zing ik in het Nederlands, soms in het Engels. Paul de Munnik, John Mayer en Mumford & Sons zijn artiesten waar ik veel naar luister en waarvan ik hoop dat je ze in mijn muziek terugvindt." Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on singers who write songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide.

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 January, WPL has written an album full of them, which is called 'Baart u ook Egeltjes', produced by Tim Achthoven. The record will be released after the summer. The album deals with life, love, death and more of that good stuff, told from the perspective of the eponymous hedgehog (not to be taken literally of course, but more a prickly character). Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on singers who write songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide.

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) luistert al sinds de puberteit naar verschillende traditionele- en rootsmuziekstijlen, met een voorkeur voor Ierse traditionele muziek. Sinds die tijd speelt hij percussie , in een funkband en met vrienden thuis. Na een lange carrière als modern danser en acteur pakt in 1995 hij per ongeluk een bodhrán (Ierse frametrommel) op en begint zelf ook traditionele muziek te spelen. Vanaf dat moment is muziek maken een serieuze zaak! Songwriters Guild Live is a weekly radioshow in Amsterdam, focussed on singers who write songs. This week your host was Ro Halfhide.