As a musician and songwriter, I have been working on my great passion for years; make music. First with the band Storing and later involved in the founding of the band the Feetwarmers, which has been around for about 30 years now. In 2009 I finally dared to take the stage with my own songs as a troubadour. The debut CD 'Sieleroersels' was released in 2013. A CD with 12 original songs and 1 translation of a song by Guy Clark. But I also regularly appear on stage as a session musician in backing bands or cd recordings of others like for example Gurbe Douwstra, Gerbrich van Dekken and Sido Martens
In between, a number of singles have been released, including the song 'Bildtstars en Eigenheimers', which was written for Sense of Place. 'Land fan Taal' was written in the context of Leeuwarden 2018. I also regularly write songs on commission.
The second album was released in 2021. This time no original songs, but a CD with 14 songs by singer-songwriter J.J. Cale, who died in 2013. Because these are not my own songs, the CD was released under the band/project name 'Keel'. The songs are in Bildts and the music is also suffused with a JdeV atmosphere.
