Peter Beeker (NL)

About

Peter Beeker is a singer songwriter from Venlo who performs in Noord Limburgs dialect, a choice he treats as completely natural rather than a statement. His argument is simple: you don't need to understand the words to feel them. He works both as a solo act, just voice and guitar, and as part of the blues duo DRUM&BEEKER, where he pushes the rougher, rawer edges of dialect music to the front. His solo album Elektrisch is the hardest sounding record he has made, while tracks like Laef Hard and Non Stop became classics during his time with the band Ongenode Gaste. Artists like Steve Earle, PJ Harvey, Bob Dylan, Ryan Adams and Ian Felice sit somewhere in his orbit, and there is something weathered and unbreakable about the way he sounds.