* Piet Pieterszoon Hein ( 1577 – 1629 ), Dutch naval commander and folk hero

The Old English " puca " is a kind of half-tamed woodland sprite, leading folk astray with echoes and lights in nighttime woodlands ( like the German and Dutch " Weisse Frauen " and " Witte Wieven " and the French " Dames Blanches ," all " White Ladies "), or coming into the farmstead and souring milk in the churn.

Pieter Pietersen Heyn ( 25 November 1577 – 18 June 1629 ) was a Dutch naval officer and folk hero during the Eighty Years ' War between the United Provinces and Spain.

This includes the widespread use of folk instruments and, to a lesser extent, traditional singing styles ( for example, Dutch Heidevolk, Danish Sylvatica and Spanish Stone of Erech ).

André Gerardus Hazes ( June 30, 1951 – September 23, 2004 ) was a Dutch singer in a genre called levenslied ( song about life ) which is a form of emotional folk music about everyday life sung in the Dutch language.

Category: Dutch folk singers

Dutch music: The late 1960s saw a revival of Dutch folk music, led by performers like Gerard van Maasakkers ; popularity was limited, and soon ended, though region of Friesland has maintained a strong traditional music scene.

Pow-wow is a system of American folk religion and magic associated with the Pennsylvania Dutch.

He immigrated to the USA from Germany in 1802, settled in the area around Reading, Pennsylvania, in the Pennsylvania Dutch community, where he printed and sold broadsides, chapbooks and books and practised and instructed in the arts of folk magic and folk religion which became known as pow-wow.

* distelfink, a goldfinch in Pennsylvania Dutch folk art

Afrikaans music was primarily influenced by Dutch folk styles, along with French and German influences, in the early twentieth century.

) Uncommon among other European folk, in Dutch music the bass line, not the melody, is the musical line that is danced to.

In the early 19th century, rural Dutch folk began moving to cities like Amsterdam and Rotterdam, bringing with them folk traditions.

It was in about 1974 that the Dutch folk revival peaked, a year marked by the first recording of Fungus and the birth of Wargaren from the band Pitchwheel.

Previously, the ALC and LCA in the early 1960s came into being as a result of mergers of eight smaller ethnically-based Lutheran bodies composed of German, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Swedish, Slovak, Dutch, and other folk.

" Heer Halewijn ", a medieval Dutch folk ballad, and a story found in Night 16 of The Arabian Nights, also share notable plot details with the Bluebeard tale.

In a continuing folk tale an unspecified pastor of some unspecified West Flemish church wants to impress his flock by celebrating mass in flawless ' civilized ' AN Dutch.

Bots is a socially engaged Dutch language folk rock group from the southern city of Eindhoven that is successful in both the Netherlands and Germany.

Sic, the singer of the Dutch pagan folk band Omnia hails from Cornwall and wrote a song named Cornwall about his homeland.

Dutch folk narrative.

Dutch hip hop or Nederhop is hip hop music created by musicians in the Netherlands and Flanders.

He also shot three of the most expensive music videos ever in the history of Dutch Hip Hop and through a management deal with Cilvaringz, performed in 34 countries worldwide.

In music the Franco-Flemish School is also known as the Dutch School.

Gerard Hengeveld ( 7 December 1910, Kampen-October 28, 2001, Bergen, North Holland ) was a Dutch classical pianist, music composer and educationalist.

His suicide, according to a poll organized to celebrate fifty years of Dutch popular music, was the most significant event in its history.

Brood's outspoken statements in the press about sex and drug use brought him into the Dutch public arena even more than his music.

In 1990, he won the BV Popprijs, one of the highest Dutch awards for popular music, and recorded Freeze with Clarence Clemons of the E Street Band and Tejano accordion player Flaco Jiménez.

A commemorative concert was held in Paradiso, with performances by Hans Dulfer, André Hazes, and Jules Deelder, and leading Dutch music magazine Muziekkrant OOR devoted an entire issue to him.

Consumer Empowerment was sued in the Netherlands in 2001 by the Dutch music publishing body, Buma / Stemra.

His reaction to what he perceived as the conservatism of much of the Dutch contemporary music scene quickly moved him to form a radically alternative musical aesthetic of his own.

Singer-songwriter Sting has also played lute and archlute, in and out of his collaborations with Edin Karamazov, and Jan Akkerman released two albums of lute music in the 1970s while he was a guitarist in the Dutch rock band Focus.

* 1854 – Bernard Zweers, Dutch composer and music teacher ( d. 1924 )

Since May 4, 1994, the flags, having hung at half-staff from 18: 00 onwards, are then hoisted to the music of the " Wilhelmus ", the Dutch national anthem.

The library offers e-books and music by Dutch artists and composers that can be downloaded free of charge to a laptop or mobile device.

In a 1976 interview with Dutch music magazine Oor, the author wrote that Vangelis had a wife named Veronique Skawinska who was a photographer who had done some album art work for Vangelis.

** Armin van Buuren, Dutch music producer and DJ

* August 17 – Willem Duys, Dutch radio and television presenter, tennis player and music producer ( d. 2011 )

In 1860, Belgium formally adopted the song and music as its national anthem, although the then prime minister, Charles Rogier edited out lyrics attacking the Dutch Prince of Orange.

" I fail to see how this lot will make a positive contribution to the future of Dutch music ".

Doe Maar's newfound success continued with Is Dit Alles ( Is That All ; a song that questions the perfect marriage ) and gave rise to the Nederpop ( New Dutch Wave ) explosion ; ( relatively ) young bands singing in their own language at a time when serious music fans snubbed it, something that Ernst was concerned about.

The expected revival didn't happen, and early 1992 Henny finally released Mijn Hart Slaapt Nooit ( My Sleepless Heart ) with contributions from Jan P., Joost and prominent names from the Dutch Latin music scene.

Nederpop is a Dutch term that was invented by the mid-1970s to describe the Dutch pop music scene of the 1960s and 1970s that was gaining worldwide attention, exemplified by bands such as Shocking Blue, Golden Earring and Focus.

During the early 1980s, the Nederpop term was revived to name the sudden growth of Dutch language pop music from the Netherlands.

Category: Dutch styles of music