- A Tickle in the Heart
- Allan Taylor
- Amy Wadge
- Andrea Soler
- Andrés Godoy
- Anne Haigis
- Ariana Gillis
- Barbara Hennerfeind
- Bernd Heitzler
- BJ Baartmans
- Branco Stoysin
- Christina Lux
- Colin Hay
- Crazy Chris Kramer
- David Tanenbaum
- Didier Lockwood
- Die Toten Hosen
- Duo Detour
- Emil Ernebro
- Fahrid Ali
- Ferenc Snetberger
- Filip Novosel
- Florian Friedrich
- Franck Bedez
- Franco Morone
- Frank Haunschild
- Frank Vignola
- Frederik Konradsen
- Guitar And Voice
- Hein van de Geyn
- Hucky Eichelmann
- Isato Nakagawa
- Jacek Krolik
- Jack & Rai
- Jacob Venndt
- Jake Shimabukuro
- Jamie Findlay
- Jan Kuiper
- Jean-Louis Foiret
- Jefferson Gonçalves ES
- Jim & Morning Nichols
- Joachim Schönecker
- John Goldie
- John Renbourn
- Joscho Stephan
- Julian Dawson
- Kerstin Blodig
- Kieran Halpin
- Kiichiro Komobuchi
- Lee Oskar
- Lionel Loueke
- Luka Bloom
- Manfred Leuchter
- Martin Taylor
- Meike Koester
- Melanie Dekker
- Michael Fix
- Michael Sagmeister
- Neyveli S Radhakrishna
- Norbert Gottschalk
- Pam Rose
- Pat Coldrick
- Pat O'May
- Paul Vernon Chester
- Peppino D'Agostino
- Peter Autschbach
- Philip Catherine
- Rainer Rohloff
- Ralf Siedhoff
- Richard Smith
- Roger Wang
- Rosenberg Trio
- Sandor Szabo
- Shaun Hopper
- Silvain Luc
- Smoking Joe Robinson
- Stefan Stoppok
- Stephane Wrembel
- Steve Louvat
- Steve White
- Susan Weinert
- Thiago Espirito Santo
- Thomas Kleemaier
- Tokio Uchida
- Tommy Emmanuel
- Troy Cassar-Daley
- Ulf Wakenius
- Ulli Bögershausen
- Vitaly Makukin
- Who's That Girl
- Youssef Dhafer
- Zipflo Rheinhardt
Kerstin Blodig is regarded as one of the most important interpreters of Scandinavian and Celtic world-music. She studied musicology, Scandinavian languages and cultures, with particular emphasis on Norwegian folk music.
Today she tours all over the world – including major festivals, studio recordings, theatre productions and regular TV appearances – with a wide variety of different projects, including the celtic bands Talking Water and Norland Wind (featuring Clannad-members Pádraig and Noel Duggan).
She cultivates her Norwegian roots in her solo performances and in the duo Kelpie with Ian Melrose. Her debut solo CD Valivann won the renowned German Critics Prize 2002. After the success of her 2nd solo album: Trollsang, she has just released her third solo CD Nordisk Sjel. Being one of the finest women guitarists in the acoustic scene today, she is official endorser of Gibson Guitars.
A voice as clear as Norwegian fjord water coupled with a virtuoso groovy guitar ...
Kerstin loves recording as well as producing. She has guested on various studio productions which are too numerous to mention. Her specialty is definately her „internal harmoniser“, which allows her to spontaneously create one, two, three or even more vocal harmonies to a melody line („you hum it, I’ll harmonise it …“) in a very short time, as long as the sound engineer can keep up!
Studio work: besides singing, playing guitar, bouzouki, mandolin, bodhrán and banjo for audio CDs she has done jingles and recordings for film scores – recently e.g. for the Irish-American-German co-production „Love and Rage“ and the new German release „Schnee in der Neujahrsnacht“.
Theatre: various productions including „Clockwork Orange“ and Brendan Behan’s „Richard’s Cork Leg“ (banjo, vocals, guitar)
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Filip Novosel. Born in Slavonski Brod, Croatia, Novosel is highly regarded as one of today’s most important innovators on the tambura/brac, forging new connections between Croatian and gypsy heritages, jazz and classical music. With his father as his first tambura teacher, he began his music education at Ivan Zajc as a pianist in Slavonski Brod, then at Franjo Kuhač, (theory department in Osijek). He earned a masters degree in Music Education from the Zagreb Music Academy (with thesis in Tambura Techniques in jazz) in 2011.
Filip and colleague Petar Ćulibrk (piano) soon established the Novosel & Ćulibrk Duo and Quartet Corona, the first Croatian jazz ensembles to feature the tambura. The quartet performed at the first Avantgarde Jazz Festival in Rovinj as opening act for guitarist George Benson. Their first CD is Live in Slavonski Brod, and they are currently working on their second recording. He performs often with other ensembles and orchestras, including the one hundred-member Croatian Tambura Orchestra as both soloist and composer/arranger.
Novosel attended numerous jazz workshops with Juan Garcia Herreros, Jim Rotondi, Sigi Feigl and Saša Nestorović. The 2011 summer workshop in Bassano del Grappa, Italy (led by New School Jazz and Contemporary Music faculty in New York City), proved to be pivotal. He was named the most talented musician among sixty participants, leading directly to his acceptance into the New School’s program– the first tambura soloist ever to enroll in a major American jazz school.
As currently based in New York, Filip is working on various projects, of which the most important is duo with guitarist Richard Boukas, highly acclaimed Brazilian jazz expert. When Novosel was introduced to the rich genre of Brazilian Choro, it ignited a mutual intention to explore how tambura, guitar and voice could offer fresh interpretations of this and other styles, including Croatian folk music (Boukas is of Greek heritage). In this way, the roots of the music remain clear, while achieving new forms that defy traditional stylistic barriers. Filip is surely destined to elevate the tambura to ever higher levels of recognition and artistic accomplishments around the world.
Branco Stoysin, south London resident guitarist, composer and tutor. Born in the university town Novi Sad, Serbia, Yugoslavia, and entirely self-taught, Branco began playing guitar at the age of 15 and very soon found a love of jazz and Brazilian music, influenced by Joe Pass, Charlie Parker and Antonio Carlos Jobim. Soon, Branco was being featured at a number of jazz venues and festivals in his home country and appeared at the largest festival „The Days of Jazz“ in Novi Sad.
At 18 he prolifically started composing sensual music of great beauty with Sunny dispositions and gathered 100’s of tunes till the present. He is largely inspired by the Sun, and influenced by Jazz, Yugoslav traditional folk, World, Brazilian and classical music. The interest in these compositions led to recordings for radio and TV Novi Sad. Following this, Branco formed his „Sad Nova Trio“ whose success led to numerous concerts and broadcasts on TV.
As an avid reader of the Sherlock Holmes series, he began to hanker for a different life and wider musical opportunities. In the early 1990s he set off to England with little more than his guitar and has since become a fixture on the London and UK music scene, actively composing and performing solo, in various duos and with his new trio featuring the elegant Leslee Booth on 6-string contra-bass and imaginative Buster Birch on percussion. Branco composes and plays sensual music of great beauty, coloured by many world influences.
After Branco‘s very first solo-gig at the Peter Ind‘s „Tenor Clef“ Jazz-Club in London, back in 1993, Branco with his new and consistent trio has performed at many top venues such as Arts Centres: The National Theatre foyer, The Royal Albert Hall-Ignite, Norwich, Colchester, Cardiff, Windsor, Eastbourne UGT; Festivals: London Jazz Festival, City Of London, Ealing Jazz Festival, Oxford Jazz Festival, International Guitar Festival of GB Wirral, Ards International Guitar Festival of Co Down N. Ireland, Rural Touring (NRTF-Devon) and an endless list of Clubs such as: Pizza Express Jazz Club in London, The Stables Theatre Milton Keynes, High-Places as: The Landmark Hotel London, The Royal Commonwealth Society, Royal Automobile Club ...
Branco has also appeared with his trio on Sky TV „Arts World“, BBC Radio 3‘s „In Tune“ programme and is regularly featured and a favourite on Sarah Ward‘s show on Jazz FM/Smooth FM.
Branco is a qualified teacher and teaches at Goldsmiths and City Lit Colleges of London guitar and jazz guitar in his unique, passionate and enthusiastic way by passing that enthusiasm and love for the guitar to his students, thus enabling them to really play the instrument. Six critically acclaimed albums and live DVD have been released on Sun Recordings label.
For 40 years Allan Taylor has been considered as the consummate performer, a writer of literary gracefulness whose troubadour chronicles encapsulate the realism of otherwise unsung heroes, otherwise uncharted lives. His songs are faultlessly constructed and flawlessly performed, with his instantly recognisable voice, attractively dark and mellow, and his intricately detailed yet full-sounding guitar playing. His album The Traveller won the Grand Prix du Disque de Montreaux for the best European album, and his CD Colour to the Moon (released in 2001) represents the work of an artist at his most mature and confident.
The songs on the CD, Hotels and Dreamers (which was awarded “CD of the Year” in Germany) add to a superb back catalogue of great songs, songs that have been recorded by more than a hundred other performers of various nationalities (there are more than sixty cover versions of his song “It’s Good to See You” in ten different languages). His most recent recording, Leaving at Dawn (released in March/April 2009), shows a return to the folk style of guitar playing and songwriting that Allan developed in the sixties and seventies.
Looking back as well as forward, few people can convey with such eloquence their life experiences. His songs are written from a lifetime of travelling; always the observer passing through, each song is a vignette of life, like a story told over a drink in a bar. Each has an integrity that tells you it comes from something real; characters come to life like people you know and places become as familiar as if you had been there. As Allan says at the beginning of each concert: „Sit back and enjoy the journey.”