2011
October 2011
Aggie played the guitar with Ankie Keultjes and they sang a song on the Blue Border Folk Club stage in Eindhoven; it was their guitar debut!
Augustus 2011
We've recorded the rough versions of 10 new songs now. But until our third CD is finished there's still enough good work to be heard on our first 2 albums. Tip: click on the video button above and enjoy the beautiful clip of Moonlight Dancer.
January 2011
We've literally got hundreds of new fans through Jango radio: Welcome y'all!
Many new songs are waiting to be recorded so let's get into that studio and work. Lately our musical activity consisted mainly out of songwriting (Aggie) and every now and then singing with Ankie (Keultjes)again, for fun. Stephan has toured through Germany with Bots and started a new and exciting musical adventure: Quick Draw, a soul/jazz/blues/funk-inspired trio with Mike Roelofs on Hammond organ and drummer Sjoerd van Bommel.
2010
February 2010
You can listen to all of our latest songs on the internet radio station Jango
January 2010
Moonlight dancer won 3 Special mentions, in each category in which it participated in the international Musicaid contest: best Female Solo Artist, Band and Video!
2009
August 2009
The great new video clip of Aggielands' Moonlight dancer, now on the video page!
May 2009
Great reviews for 'Heading for the sun' in several European magazines and e-zines.
Coming soon on this site: the videoclip of Moonlight Dancer, by film- and image magician Louk Voncken.
2008
August 2008
'Heading for the sun' will be released on August 7th. Some great musicians coöperated in the making of this CD: Sjoerd van Bommel -drums, Osama Maleegi-percussion, Paddy van Rijswijk -bass, Pieter van Bogaert -Hammond organ, Johan Jansen - pedal-steel guitar, Maaike Roelofs-cello and Cajan Witmer-piano. Stephan plays all the guitar parts, Aggie sings. Special guest in a duet with Aggie is JWRoy.
The CD page contains sound clips of some of the songs.
June 2008
'Heading for the sun'; the title of the second Aggieland-CD, due to appear in August. The album contains a refreshing combination of American rootsmusic with the tremendously appealing and powerful African percussion of Osama Maleegi (No Blues).
April 2008
As from now Aggieland live will consist of at least the musicians Jankowski&De Kruijf. The former Aggieland-band gave it's last concert in March.
Again, on April 9th Stephan and Aggie participate in the Jack Clement band in Paradiso.
March 2008
We've put some video snapshots from the Dortmund concert on myspace .
January 2008
The year has started with the US-release of 'Welcome to Aggieland'!
2007
November 2007
The first Aggieland concert abroad takes place in Dortmund, Germany. Aggie and Stephan's show is recorded on DVD.
October 2007
'Cowboy'Jack Clement, songwriter and former tecnician at the legendary Sun studio's in Memphis TN, is giving some very entertaining concerts in the Netherlands. Aggie and Stephan are members of his band. Stephan of course plays guitar and Aggie, together with Very Girl Ankie is backing vocalist. Jack calls us: the canaries!!
September 2007
Aggieland can be heared live on stage again, starting this month.
The last six months we've had a lot of technical problems in the studio. They've all been solved now (knock on wood!) and believe me, it's a relieve as well as a pleasure to be able to put all our energy in the recording of songs for our next album.
August 2007
CD 'Welcome to Aggieland' also available on i-Tunes now.
April 2007
Guitarist Jan Vlemmings makes the new team complete and we aim to get back on the road -and on stage!- again a.s.a.p. .
March 2007
What else is new, apart from the lines in the newspaper about the soon to come and inevitable end of the glow-bulb, longtime symbol of Aggie's hometown Eindhoven?
We take a short break in recording, because the NOPO-studio is changing recordingstuff. We'll be back in action soon! Meanwhile, violin player and singer Marieke van Ooy has joined the Aggieland gang.
January 2007
In Rome Stephan plays the guitar in the band of Sister Sledge.
Aggieland appears on regional television RTV10 on January 15th. An interview as well as the clip are shown.
This month a special CD-release is taking place by the Dutch Country Music Association, featuring Grounded next to songs by other musicians.
2006
December 2006
Beautiful results for Aggieland in Music Aid INTERNATIONAL MUSIC AWARDS 2006: voted Best Band for the Netherlands. In the Songwriter category 'Working wonders' is runner up.
Music Aid is a UN organization.
October 2006
JW Roy is welcomed in the studio to sing a duet with Aggie: For the last time.
We say goodbye to Aggieland veteran Jim van Rossum.
September 2006
We've done some test recordings for new songs in the NOPO-studio. One of them is an instrumental Stephan has brought home from Canada this summer: Tsawwassen.
Aggie is backing vocalist at two concerts of the Dutch singer-songwriter Ad Vanderveen.
The Aggieland clip can also can be seen now on RTV-Utrecht and RTV-Drenthe, as well as on this site and on youtube.com. It's a bit odd now the summer sun is still warming us, to watch the images that were shot on a North Sea beach where an ice cold northern wind was freezing our noses off.
May 2006
TV-Oranje is the first tv-station to show Working wonders.
Guitar player Eric van Donkersgoed joins Aggieland.
2005
December 2005
In Amsterdam the last shootings for the clip Working wonders take place. Director is Jo Schuttwolf, in Germany known for his beautiful video 'Walking with Giger'. Giger is the creator of the Alien monster for the movie of the same name.
November 2005
Satoshi has to leave for Japan. Time for a change in the band.
The shooting for a videoclip starts in the Plaza theater in Aggie's hometown Eindhoven.
Februari 2005
Welcome to Aggieland is released on February 7th. On RTV-Noord it's CD of the week.
The Aggieland tour through Holland is taking off.
2004
December 2004
With percussion by Sandra Sahupala added, as well as piano, organ and keyboards by Roger Happel and Cajan Witmer, the recordings of the first CD are ready.
A demo of the CD immediately becomes 'CD of the Week' at a local radio station in Netherlands' south.
November 2004
Try out of the Aggieland band, next to singer Aggie this time featuring Ruud Sempel on bass, Satoshi Ueda and Jim van Rossum on guitar.
September 2004
Aggieland signs a CD-contract with Music&Words. 'Welcome to Aggieland' will be available in the shops by March next year.
May 2004
Once again Van der Meijden drops by in the studio for percussion and drums.
April 2004
Storm warning and Through this night are added to the song book.
February 2004
Saxophone player Jan Kooper contributes an awesome part to Stranger's Lullaby. The choir parts are recorded. Stephan's voice makes a debut in the backing vocals of Baby Jesus. And then he discovers a new toy: the drum program!
As always, Hans Zilver is Stephan's critical sound advisor.
January 2004
It's freezing cold in the basement, where the studio's drums are situated. Drummer Van der Meijden doesn't even complain about it once. His hands warmed by black gloves, he plays his part, smoothly and with a good sense for details on Once Upon and some other songs.
2003
December 2003
Aggie met pedal steel guitarist Johan Jansen only a few times at festivals, but his playing impressed her enough to ask him to appear on some songs. Micahael "LP" LaPointe checks the English used in the lyrics.
October 2003
Drummer Stephan van der Meijden from the Netherlands by chance attends a Very Girls/ Watchman concert in the renowned CBGB's in Manhattan. Talking to Stephan J. later, they come to an agreement; he'll come to the studio to see if he can help us out with drums and percussion.
April-September 2003
In the meanwhile Stephan has mixed Working wonders and it sounds beautiful. So, why not record the other songs in that way too? There's no stopping us now!
A plan is made for every song. Apart from the recording sessions, the two from that moment on conspire once every month: they edit, polish, give their stamp of approval or throw away, try, listen, play again, plan, cooperate in songwriting and drink black coffee.
Stranger's lullaby, Grounded and Love is here are recorded.
Stephan is recording lead guitar, acoustic and electric, as well as solo's. After he's added keyboard to Liar and Paddy van Rijswijk has played his bass part, the song has become a gruesome beauty.
Afloat is asking attention for the decay of Cuba. For example, an economical boycott has forced children as well as professional musicians to use stripped telephone wire, as strings on their guitars and violins. Organizations like sendapiana.com are helping to change that situation.
March 2003
Ankie Keultjes (The Very Girls, The Watchman) records Aggie's first seven songs in her studio. Jim is finger picking on the guitar, Aggie sings.
January 2003
In Stephan's NOPO-studio in Amsterdam, guitar and vocals of Working wonders are recorded.
2002
December 2002
Stephan and Aggie make a recording plan for Working Wonders.
The first songs make their live debut, played by Jim van Rossum and Aggie.
September 2002
Several songs have flown out of Aggie's pen and guitar now but for Working wonders she can't find a melody. Stephan does a perfect job composing one that fits. It's the start of their musical cooperation.
April - May 2002
Singer Aggie and guitar player Stephan are both members of The Very Girls, touring the USA. During the tour the band jokes about the dubious quality of some songs heard all day long on the car radio, especially about the predictable words in the lyrics. Once back in The Netherlands again, Aggie starts writing down some lines about the pro's and cons of US American songs. A few chords on the guitar later, she has found a melody to accompany the words and Sky High, her first song is a fact. Songwriting turns out to be the very way to express herself.
