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Breakfast with Craig Cardiff

Breakfast with Craig Cardiff 0

Craig Cardiff came over for a Dutch pancake breakfast this morning after playing an intimate show at the Streaming Cafe last night. After touring relentlessly for several years, recording a discography of 20 albums, playing well-known venues across North America, having gone through the whole mainstream management thing (Feldman), he now tours alone & manages himself. [...]

What Matters

What Matters 29

3 years after my dad died of cancer, I had an incredibly life-like dream where I not only saw my dad, but encountered him in a way that changed my life. This song is a response to that encounter and dedicated to my dad, my best friend, and encourager until his last breath: Henk Boesten [...]

Hi. I’m Nico.

Hi. I’m Nico.

Kicking dudes is not my day job. I promise. I’m Nico Boesten – a husband, father, producer, singer-guy, drummer, entrepreneur, supporter of indie artists, soccer lover, and least importantly a novice land kiteboarder. All of which I love and am working on becoming awesomer at. Having lived in Europe, US, and Canada, I have done [...]

Recording with Ari Neufeld & Beer bottle solos

Recording with Ari Neufeld & Beer bottle solos 1

I didn’t think it was humanly possible, but there is such thing as an accidental beer bottle solo. You have to drink JUST enough to where the tone matches the track. This happened in the studio the other night as I was laying down some more tracks to the tune What Matters with Ari Neufeld [...]