Janis McCoury
individual bios
Liz Meesters - Vocals, Double Bass
Liz is geboren in Leiden,
maar woont al een aantal jaren in Harpel in Oost-Groningen.
Opgegroeid in een echte Bluegrass familie, kon het niet uitblijven dat ze zelf
ook muziek zou gaan maken.
Samen met haar vader begon ze het bandje "Close to Home" waarin ze haar liefde
voor droevige liedjes kwijt kon.
Als de gelegenheid zich voor doet zingt ze ook met een aantal leden
van het Italiaanse MIDEANDO STRING QUARTET.
Met hen heeft ze al eens opgetreden in Nashville (US).
Haar muzikale invloeden lopen ver uiteen, van JANIS IAN tot KATHY
KALLICK en JOHN COWAN tot JOHN HIATT.
Liz was born in Leiden
(NL), but is living in Harpel in Eastern-Groningen for several years
now.
While raised in a Bluegrass family there was no doubt she would
make music herself.
Together with her father she founded the band
"Close to Home" in which she could express her preference for sad
songs.
By chance she sings with some members of the Italian band MIDEANDO
STRING QUARTET.
With them she once performed at the IBMA in
Nashville, TN.
Her musical influences are wide, from JANIS IAN to KATHY KALLICK and
from JOHN COWAN to JOHN HIATT.
Bert
was born on May 29 1962 in
the fortress city called
Steenwijk.
On the age of seven Bert got to know the guitar by his
brother in law Gerard Rutger Buisman.
Also by his brother in Law Gerard,
he got to know the music of Johny Cash
and John Denver at the time he
went to college. Due to that music Bert discovered the Dobro®.
By countryclub “’t Posthuis” Bert got in touch with the Dutch Bluegrass
scene.
During two shows of White Mountain Bluegrass he heard, and saw a
real Dobro player for the first time, named Roger Williams.
At that time
his brother in law Gerard was a member of the Bluegrass band
“Flagstone”.
After Jeroen Jongsma had left the band, Bert and his friend
Ronald van der Jagt
were asked to join the band Flagstone on Dobro and
5-string banjo.
The past fifteen years, Bert only joined his brother in law on Dobro® in
the studio
for some cd’s and a DVD. But since October 2014 Bert joined
the band Janis McCoury.
Bert has a wide range of taste of music. His heroes on dobro are
MIKE AULDRIDGE,
JIM HEFFERNAN
and
SALLY van METER, but he also likes to
listen to
JERRY DOUGLAS,
ROB ICKES,
THE SELDOM SCENE,
ALLISON KRAUSS
and
PETER ROWAN.
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