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Tracks: Make my day Life’s like that On repeat (Missing you) I wish My Spitz
The EP release concert is scheduled for Friday, 11 April, at De Vreemde Eend in Dordrecht.
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Performing at Salon Zonneveld – Thursday, 30 January
Two Doors Down is performing at Salon Zonneveld on Thursday, 30 January.
We will also perform songs from our Crème Brûlée (dutch) repertorie:
http://www.cremebruleemuziek.nl
Where: Hoevestraat 31A, Rotterdam
When: 20.00, Thursday, 30 January
Lex Zonneveld also offers a meal at EUR 10 per person.
If you’d like to sign up for the meal, register before noon on Thursday: salonzonneveld@gmail.com
BAR OPEN MIC NIGHT – January 6 = last in the series
We’ve just had BAR OPEN MIC NIGHT 3, on Monday, 6 January. Thanks to Kris, Eefje and Rene of BAR and the artists who turned up to entertain us: Maaike, Frederike, Ernst, Joris and Two Doors Down, of course.
Unfortunately, this is the last BAR OPEN MIC NIGHT ….
Hosting the BAR OPEN MIC NIGHT – 4 November
On Monday, 4 November, Two Doors Down is hosting an open mic night at BAR (Schiekade 201, Rotterdam): BAR OPEN MIC NIGHT
This is a Two Doors Down initiative, but we couldn’t do it without Kris and Emiel of BAR, and all the people who pitch up on the night to listen and to perform.
Sign up is from 20.00 (first come, first served).
There will be 8 to 10 slots available.
Music from 21.00
Max 3 songs per act (no covers)
Plug-in and play
We are modelling ourselves on the Open Mic Sessions of our friends in the Amsterdam Songwriters Guild, currently held at the Backstage Hotel on Tuesday nights.
Note: BAR also serves meals.
FACEBOOK PAGE for the event: https://www.facebook.com/events/208222996023614/
From the archives: Margriet & I in full swing
Margriet on melodica and me on guitar, at Kunst & Kruid, Rotterdam in 2012
Photo by Theo Hijgens
Focus on songwriting
I’ve added a new page in the Links section on songwriting.
Here I’ve listed some online videos, mailing lists/blogs and recommended books.
Enjoy.
Two Doors Down – one outlet amongst many
It’s true. I am prolific as a songwriter, thanks to my various outlets.
Margriet and I regularly spend time writing “Crème Brûlée” lyrics. (This is our dutch act, for nursing home audiences – recidents, staff and family members – drawing on Margriet’s experience as a nursing home doctor. We’ve just finished the lyrics for a song called “Rollator Blues”, and we’re now in middle of writing one called “Relatie”). And I have loads of Two Doors Down and ‘Crème Brûlée lyrics waiting for a tune. (I can write lyrics anywhere, but melodies require time in the company of an instrument and a recording device.)
There is more to songwriting, though, than merely writing songs. To perform them live, they need to be arranged. To record an album is a collaborative process that requires a whole other skill set.
The “Send us a friend” project gave me a wonderful opportunity to get valuable Producer experience, and we have a CD to be proud of, that is also helping to raise much-needed funds to enable underprivileged children in the slums of Addis Abeba to go to school.
For more information about this project, see http://www.facebook.com/sendusuafriend
To listen to the songs and purchase them as a digital download, go to http://sendusafriend.bandcamp.com
Performing at THISSFEST 2013
We have four 20-minute slots in THE HAGUE INTERNATIONAL SINGER-SONGWRITER FESTIVAL this weekend:
Friday, 28 June 2013
20:40 | Lokaal Vredebreuk
22:00 | O’Casey’s
Saturday, 29 June 2013
12:00 | De Libertijn
17:40 | O’Casey’s
For more information about tickets, and the other singer-songwriters taking part, see:
http://www.thissfest.org
Our first festival: THISSFEST 2013 : 27-30 June : The Hague
Two Doors Down is on the programme for this 4-day, 6-venue International Singer-Songwriter Festival to be held in The Hague from 27 to 30 June.
For more information and regular updates on the festival, see http://thissfest.org/
We’ll keep you posted re: when and where you can see us live.
Irene & Margriet tied up with other projects
Margriet and I have been busy with all kinds of other projects. In January 2013 we had our first live gig in a nursing home with our other act, crème brûlée. And since October 2012 have been tied up with a CD Project called “Send us a friend”, performed by “Friends & neighbours”, the name we opted for to reflect the cameraderie of everyone involved.
The CD is in aid of a charity working amongst poor children in Addis Abeba, the Ethio-Berhan Foundation. (www.ethioberhan.nl)
The CD contains twelve Christian songs on relevant themes and features a children’s choir, an adult choir, and assorted instruments – bass guitar, lead guitar, saxophone, clarinet, violin and percussion – as well as Margriet on drum, soprano recorder, melodica, glockenspiel, shakers.
The CD has been mixed and mastered, and we are currently finalizing the CD booklet before pressing. As soon as we know the launch date (with concert), we’ll let you know.
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