25 years have now passed since the last broadcast of the Dutch radio presenter, Ate Doornbosch, who spent between 1957 to 1993 criss-crossing the Netherlands, recording men and women singing songs of their lives spent on islands, on farms or in fishing villages. These songs were collected in a 9-CD box set named after the […]
Day: May 15, 2018
In my last blog, I wrote about the songs I had been listening to from Ate Doornbosch’s ‘Onder de Groene Linden’ collection. Here, I’m posting recordings of four of the songs that I found the most musically-striking. This blog is a first call for participation from you, the reader, or from anyone in your circle […]