Linde Nijland is the next guest at Eastbourne Lamb Folk Club

Linde Nijland is the next guest at Eastbourne Lamb Folk Club on Wednesday, May 6.

The gig is upstairs at the Lamb Inn, High Street, Old Town, Eastbourne, BN21 1HH; doors 7.30pm, music from 8pm, admission £8 (cash) on the door.

Spokesman Nick Cant said: “She came in 2023 and is doing a UK promotional tour from her home in the Netherlands.

“Linde tours all over Europe with her crystal-clear voice and pure performance. She is probably best known for her sincere renditions of Sandy Denny song material. She wowed the Lamb Folk Club with these and her own songs when she last visited us.

“Joe Boyd, former producer of Nick Drake, Fairport Convention, and Pink Floyd, said about her album Sings Sandy Denny: ‘Linde Nijland has given Sandy Denny's music the respect it deserves, and made a lovely and fresh record that shows off her beautiful voice as well as her good taste.’

“In July 2009 he invited her to be part of an All Star Fairport Convention reunion concert in the Barbican Hall in London. In 2014 Linde sang guest vocals during Fairport Convention's Dutch tour. Linde was also part of the BBC Radio 2 documentary about Sandy Denny by Bob Harris in 2008.

“Linde started singing at a young age with female folk duo Ygdrassil. She then recorded five albums and played at many venues and festivals like Lowlands and Noorderslag. 2007 marked the end of this remarkable Dutch duo and Linde continued as a successful folk singer and songwriter.

“In recent years she has been working internationally in close cooperation with skilled multi-instrumentalist Bert Ridderbos (guitars, banjo, cittern, accordion). Their musical travels have brought them to many surprising countries like Iran and Bhutan.

“Apart from her albums with Ygdrassil and Sings Sandy Denny, Linde has made a Dutch album, the poetic Visman and an album with winter songs. In 2011 a DVD/CD of her adventurous musical journey to Bhutan in 2008 was released. It showed intriguing performances by Linde and Bert Ridderbos in Serbia, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, India and Bhutan, partly together with local traditional musicians. In Bhutan Bert and Linde performed at the centenary concert in honour of the crowning of the fifth king.

“An animated music video for Linde's song Traveller made by Iranian film maker Sam Chegini won awards at international film festivals in Canada and the US. In 2014 Linde's intimate album I Am Here with lots of her own songs was released and accordingly pop magazine Heaven called her the ‘best folk singer of The Netherlands.’