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J.C. "Skeeter"
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Mosquito is a musician from Saskatchewan, Canada, somewhere up north
where the winters are cold and the summers are surprisingly hot, but
only for a couple of weeks. Instrumentally a Jack of All Trades but
Master of None, he claims to be a master of one thing only: the world's
best writer of JC Mosquito songs. With quality through quantity as his
mantra, he's written literally hundreds of tunes; but at least he has
the good sense to realize not all of them are good.
titlehough attempting to retire from live performance over 10 years ago,
he keeps getting drafted to play whatever instrument nobody feels like
playing at any given time - which nowadays is usually the accordion. And
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Jostein Beck - "JayJay"
Jostein Beck, rather Jochen Steinhaus-Beck but we lovingly
call him JayJay, in the middle of his fourty's, lives and works in the city
of Bielefeld, Germany where he follows his ambitions as a musician and
singer-songwriter.
"As I have a couple of friends in America, I wrote a lot of songs in
English. Translated, they often lose their expression, so I leave them in
English, and introduce them to the audience, when I play live."
At the age of 12 Jay J. discovered the Beatles Complete Songbook, which
became his most important source. A few years later, JayJay started coming
up with his first songs. A friend joined JayJay with his flute, and felt
like kings. JayJay then studied classical guitar and through many years
played Villa-Lobos, Barrios and Bach until he felt the need to become
independent and start writing his own songs. JayJay was in search of his own
style, finding direction in the music he loves to listened to, which he
claims is "mostly Tom Petty". But JayJay also mentions, "I am glad
when my songs are compared to the songs of the Beatles and other great song
writing teams".
"When I joined The Jangle Band, it was my first time with a whole band, and
now enjoy seeing songs grow with these fantastic musicians."
As JayJay loves to say, "I follow the motto: "Poetry is like the sun: she's
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