Evert's World of Music

"There was a vast crowd in the public grounds that night to hear the band play the " Fremersberg ." This piece tells one of t...

Last week I wrote about the Bolivian Saya, and how I fell in love with it. The story was connected to the lesson I taught about indigenous L...

I started teaching my course “Introduction non-western music” again. In nine lessons I skim the world map on music. I work form left to righ...

I was biking to my work and passed two people on bikes cycling next to each other. To my surprise I heard the sound of an iPod’s ear-phone c...

One of the many dimensions of a concert is that you meet the musician as a person – or at least pretending that that is the case seems to me...

I think I have mentioned choirs singing sea shanties already several times in this blog. I am fascinated by shanty choirs. Singing in one is...

I play in two bands. In one of them, I have put a ban on two things: using instruments that cannot simply be carried (like drum sets or pian...