Den Haag Songwriters Guild: This week in Lokaal - Tim Moyer, Lisa Graciano and Reaganesk

Saturday, June 23, 2007

This week in Lokaal - Tim Moyer, Lisa Graciano and Reaganesk

Its probably gonna rain at Parkpop, anyways, and all weekend so why not head down to Lokaal to catch some Amsterdam and America singersongwriter action! Heres your chance to also meet one of the people who started up the Amsterdam songwriters guild (hello!). Get some good beer and stay out of the rain... its bad for your hairdo anyway.

Reaganesk ( Maarten de Mink, geb. Limerick, IRL, 23-11-1977) is een vrij onconventioneel singer/ songwriter, woonachtig in Amsterdam. Zijn muziek valt te omschrijven als melancholiek, melodisch en 'down-beat', maar op een voorzichtige manier toch best vrolijk.
Als mede- oprichter van het Amsterdam Songwriters Guild heeft
Reaganesk veel podiumervaring opgedaan in den landen en tijdens
buitenlandse omzwervingen heeft hij menig vreemdeling met zijn liedjes aangesproken. Momenteel wordt met behulp van bevriende muzikanten gewerkt aan nieuw, stemmig materiaal, waarvan een aantal nummers staat op de demo.

Lisa Graciano
Lisa Graciano is in 1990 in nederland gekomen om te kijken of ze het hier beter kon doen in de muziek, sinds top 40 het summum was in de drie aziatische steden Jakarta, Manila en Singapore, waar ze opgroeide. Engels was toen al haar moedertaal. In alle drie de steden had ze overigens bands die haar eigen repertoire verkondigden in het underground circuit.

Tim Moyer
Het opgroeien in een familie waar beide ouders muzikant zijn heeft zijn voordeel voor het talent van Tim Moyer want hij hoorde van jongsaf aan allerlei muziek van Jazz tot Klassiek. Tim begon zelf met drummen toen hij 7 was en deed mee af en toe met de band van zijn vader. Het was toen hij 16 was dat hij voelde de kriebels om liedjes te gaan schrijven, pakte de Gibson acoustische gitaar van zijn oma en begon zijn singer-songwriter carrier in Zuid California. Tim heeft als opening act gespeeld voor bekende acts zoals Venice, Marc Cohn, Doobie Brothers, The Tubes en veel meer, overall in de Verenigde Staten. Hij is ook winnaar van OCMA's "Best Male Performer" en the IEMA's "Best Male Artist" in 2005 en 2006, zowel als "Best Pop Rock" in 2007.

About Us

Need to get in touch with us in a hurry? Mail denhaagsongwritersguild@yahoo.com or phone Kat on 0625570146. The Den Haag Songwriters Guild is a network of singer-songwriters. If you would like to join please send us an email. We organise weekly gigs in several cafes, and put on mini-festivals from time to time. The guild is always looking for more opportunities to get out there and play, please get in touch. If you are a music-lover and would like to be kept up to date occasionally on guild activities, send an email to this address We are on myspace and hyves too, so come be our friend

What is the Den Haag Songwriters Guild? The guild was set up in 2006 to support and encourage singersongwriter activity in Den Haag. There was a lack of places to perform for soloists, and singersongwriters from outside Den Haag found it also difficult to find places to play. The basis of the guild is a weekly evening in Lokaal Vredebreuk, where three singersongwriters present 30-45 minutes of their own songs. There is also a bi-weekly radio spot on Kakophonie. Every three months an evening Singer Songwriters Condensed is held in the HPC. The guild is also regularly asked to program local festivals, for example the Kade Rock, the Haags Pop Week and the HPC winter festival. The focus of the guild is on our local members, however the theory is that the more talent we can attract here, the more we can learn ourselves, and also gain more knowledge about other places to go and play in other parts of the country. The guild was modeled on the Amsterdam Songwriters Guild, and there are a lot of members that belong to both.

Running the guild incurs costs such as telephone calls, transport costs, printing and photocopying, etc. We dont change any membership fees to our members, and in fact do our best to ensure that as many of the gigs we put on pay the performers. In the future we hope to become an official organisation and then we can apply for subsidies and things, but right now the guild costs are paid right out of my own pocket. If you can spare a few euros to contribute towards our running costs, we would be very greatful! You can donate via this paypal link, or if you would rather transfer it by bank, send us an email for the account details.

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