Introduction For as long as we can remember we always liked, sang and played folksongs from all over the world. Lucky us to have (at least partially) been able to make careers out of that too. The recent pandemic forced us all into our homes and halted many of our musical and dancing encounters.
ETNOLIKE Youtube channel We started this Youtube channel just for personal fun and to get some practice with technical stuff like audio- & video editing and new equipment. Besides, we like challenging ourselves to experiment with song, music & dance & audio/video stuff. No surprise that most of our inspiration comes from folk songs, folk music & folk dancing from around the world, hence the name of this channel “ETNOLIKE”.
Our backgrounds Between the two of us we share a staggering 70 years of teaching international folk dances. In the Netherlands and many other European countries, but basically anywhere where we get invited ;-). We both have been singing polyphonic a capella genres from several corners of the world. Jan’s a folk dance choreographer as well as a performance coach & Estill vocal coach. (Estill website) He’s leading a Balkan Choir (focal point: Balkan & Georgian) & has been teaching singing workshops for over 30 years. Richard’s also a multimedia creator. Filming, editing, photography, design. He’s trying to include some of his multimedia techniques or practice with new ones in the videos we’ll be posting here.
Our basic website: www.p-art-ners.nl (our individual websites will follow soon)
We hope we can share some results of these projects with you on a regular basis. In some videos just us two will be featured (might it be we’ll be participating as twins or more). Occasionally we hope to collaborate with one or more of our musical friends and teachers as guest(s).
Sponsoring & donations Over the years and more recently some people have expressed their wish to contribute to our work and asked if they could sponsor us or donate. That’s why we have created a donation/sponsor page: https://petje.af/janrichard If you enjoy our videos and you’d like to support us financially. You’re very welcome! That way you’d be helping us create more beautiful stuff. In that way occasionally we’d be able to pay for new equipment, instruments, publicity photos or anything else that needs paying for. Our videos will be available for free, but as our supporter you will sometimes get to see them early, or you’ll get to see what’s going on behind the scenes
Join Team Jan & Richard!