Belly piano I’ve been playing the piano for almost as long as I remember. I definitely have been listening to the piano for as long as I know: my father was not only playing when I was laying in my
Piano Concert – Album release @ Belcampo Amsterdam
** Een concert met nieuwe pianomuziek, vrijdag 3 feb., Amsterdam ** ** A concert of new pianomusic, Friday feb. 3rd, Amsterdam ** Reservations -> email reservations@cafebelcampo.nl (English Below) Baragan (Jense Meek) reisde jaren met zijn accordeon door zuidelijke landen, maar
Public Piano’s in Amsterdam
Public Piano’s in Amsterdam With Baragan’s first Piano Solo album coming up, I like to also share some places where to make that music. After years of traveling, I’m living in Amsterdam now. If you know where to find them, there
Being a musician: back to Work/School
Don’t move! After all this wandering around with my accordion in the last two years, I felt it was time to wander a bit less. So now I live at one place again. How’s that for an idea! Living at
Refugees on the Serbian Hongarian border
Refugees Border girl The setting is the train from Budapest to Belgrade, riding through the flat lands of southern Hungary. I talk to a girl that is returning home, to her parents place, a small village near the border of
My first encounter with German border police
German Border Police Travelling on a long distance bus I just crossed the border between the Netherlands and Germany. I decided to try Eurolines again, I think I haven’t been in a Eurolines bus for 20 years. But now, here
The origin of the name Baragan
baragan Where does the name baragan find its origin? -Nederlandse versie hier I encountered the name Baragan when a good friend of mine showed me the autobiography of a Dutch writer/traveller/wanderer A. den Doolaard. Below the first page of that
Het ontstaan van de naam Baragan
baragan Waar komt baragan vandaan? English version here De naam ‘Baragan’ kwam ik tegen toen een goede vriend mij wees op de autobiografie van de Nederlandse schrijver/reiziger/zwerver A. den Doolaard. Hier de eerste bladzijde uit dat boek, ‘Het leven van een
Song stories: Essaouira
Essaouira The story of a song that was born in Morocco On Morocco’s coast there is a fairy-tale town that sits strongly on the rocks fighting the endless ocean waves coming to attack it from far away. I ended up