Cedric Burnside
A lot of the times when I’ve just finished filming a session, I can’t stop smiling. At Take Root festival, the smiling began as soon as Cedric Burnside walked into ...
Sessions, Down By The River festival
Blitzen Trapper
Filming with Blitzen Trapper was a dream come true for me, honestly. They’ve been one of the bands I keep listening to for well over a decade now. I remember ...
Sessions, Down By The River festival
Nicole Atkins
“Sure Tias!” was Nicole Atkins’ response when I suggested we would film another session at Down by the River festival where we would both be, in Spring of 2019. ...
Gold Star
During Take Root festival 2018, Los Angeles-based songwriter Gold Star recorded two songs from his latest record ‘Uppers & Downers’ and a raving cover of The Velvet Underground’s ‘I Found ...
Molly Tuttle
Usually recording a session after a live show isn’t the best idea. Musicians are tired, happy the job’s done and either want to enjoy a great experience or forget it ...
Sessions, Down By The River festival, Scotland
Davey Horne
There aren’t many surprises and secrets left in life. Not of the good kind anyway. Remember when you’d read about an artist in some magazine, or just found an unknown ...
Caroline Spence
The first time I heard Caroline Spence’s single ‘Sit Here And Love Me’, was in a plane – somewhere in between Amsterdam and Glasgow. When Ryan Joseph Burns picked me ...
Sessions, Down By The River festival
Caleb Elliott
Caleb Elliott and I spoke about staying hungry for music, discovering fairly late there’s more than just classical music and the important people in his development; his high school orchestra ...
Anthony D’Amato
New York City-based songwriter Anthony D’Amato has been on a streak in the past seven years and released three full-length records and two ep’s. And now also two sessions for ...
American Aquarium
It was Anthony D’Amato who introduced me to American Aquarium. The singer from New York – who’s releasing a new EP soon – said I had to check them out ...
Jerry Leger
TakeRoot just announced its first names for 2019, featuring Brandi Carlile, Nikki Lane, Erin Rae, Caroline Spence and many others. In november 2018 I got to work with the lovely ...
Down By The River festival, Sessions
Jerry Leger
Jerry Leger’s records stand side by side to John Lennon’s in my living room. It’s only fitting because Lennon’s the first association I got from ‘Coat On The Rack’, the ...
Michaela Anne
Sometimes a voice simply forces me to keep listening. Luckily, combined with Michaela Anne’s songwriting that’s hardly an ordeal. Anthony D’Amato told me to check out her most recent record ...
The Secret Sisters
If you’d asked Laura and Lydia Rogers some time ago, they’d have told you that there might never be a third The Secret Sisters album. They really didn’t know if ...
The Black Atlantic live in Utrecht
Last Monday, it was the third Onder Invloed night at the Festival aan de Werf in Utrecht. After previous editions in 2010 (with Awkward I and The Seventeenth Century) and ...
Paulusma live at Festival aan de Werf (2)
Sometimes I search through external hard drives, without a specific purpose. Most times I’ll find some old recordings of live shows or sessions from previous years. Maybe it shows that ...
Paulusma live at Festival aan de Werf
In May this year, Paulusma headlined the Onder Invloed night at Festival aan de Werf in Utrecht. I can’t describe how good this set was. Luckily I’ve got some amazing ...
Festival, Into The Great Wide Open
Back from Vlieland
This weekend has been a lot of fun. The Into The Great Wide Open festival has been even more impressive than the previous two editions. The Onder ...
Line up Onder Invloed at Into The Great Wide Open
I’m very glad to announce an amazing line up for the Onder Invloed sessions at the Into The Great Wide Open festival at Vlieland this weekend. We’ve ...
Into The Great Wide Open
The first weekend of September, Onder Invloed will be present and active at the wonderful festival Into The Great Wide Open on the island of Vlieland. It’ll ...
Festival aan de Werf: photos
Photographer Tom Roelofs attended the Onder Invloed night at Festival aan de Werf and took photos of Paulusma and Three Blind Wolves. There are also some photos ...
Onder Invloed at the festivals
In May 2011, Onder Invloed will be part of two great Dutch festivals. On May 5th, we are presenting Case Mayfield at Bevrijdingsfestival Overijssel ...