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Nout Grupstra
or Astro-
Cajun accordion, fiddle, vocals and Musical Saw. Nout played
Roots-music touring all over Europe with bands originating
in the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium: Old-time and Cajun
with
the the Ramshackle Stringband,
Jazz, Blues and Calypso with
the Crooks and Chickenfeed, Bluegrass with Scarecrow and the
$ide$how. He
also performed with the “Rumtreiber Band”
(rambling band) of German singer Roland Heinrich, who performs the
songs of
Jimmie Rodgers in German to great acclaim. CD
on Bear Family Records: Roland
Heinrich, “Einsam und
Ausgebremmst”.
Nout has also composed music scores for television, movies
(both TV and cinema) and theater productions. He
plays with the reincarnated Dutch stringband the Crooks, www.crooks-stringband.nl,
and in various acts he has been seen using about anything with
or without strings like: guitar,
slide-guitar, fiddle, mandolin, old-time banjo, Cajun-accordion,
concertina, piano
and mucical saw. Fred van Hemert acoustic guitar and vocals. Our newest guest-band member, plays trumpet too, and currently she's learning the accordion: |