The city of Venlo in the Netherlands is maybe some sort of perfect illustration of profiting from the Schengen Agreement, which allows border-free travel within a majority of European countries, and different national legislation: especially on Saturdays, when the town…
It’s already about a month since my last Country Music Picks in May 2020. Covid-19 has been the dominating topic at those days in Nashville – currently, it seems that George Floyd’s killing / murder pushed the topic about political…
Some of my hobbies are travelling, civil aviation incl. historic planes and hotels – so having a plane which has been turned into a hotel just sounds like perfect for me, doesn’t it? There are few opportunities to do that,…
It feels a bit like Ilse deLange wants to push towards the German music market nowadays: the Dutch country and pop star is not just currently part of the German Sing meinen Song (“Sing My Song”) TV show, which is…
I ran into the music of Sylvia Aimee, a Dutch country music artist, some one year ago. The quality of her music and her songwriting fascinated me and her EP Superhero, which she released in October 2019, is a real gem.…
Five days after I saw Brett Eldredge and Lauren Jenkins at the Carlswerk Victoria show in Cologne, Germany, I traveled to our neighboring country Netherlands to see their tour again. The Amsterdam Paradiso promised a lovely venue, which I already…
Right after the show of Brett Eldredge and Lauren Jenkins in the large venue of the Paradiso, the Dutch Sound of Nashville series invited country fans to another concert. Brandy Clark was playing in the minor venue of the Paradiso,…
10th January 2020 had a couple of interesting album releases. DeWolff from the Netherlands are playing an interesting mix of blues, rock and psychedelic sounds. This quite unique mix of genres gave them quite some decent success. Also due to…