Karolien
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"Musician, photographer, artist"
Female
31 years old
Kerry
Ireland
Last Login:
7/7/2008
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Karolien's Interests
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| General | 'www.samhlaiocht.com'
'www.metroeireann.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=415&Itemid=63'
| | Music | anything good; rock, blues, funk, latin, samba, classical, traditional, reggae, etc, etc........
Good old fashioned funk and soul!!!
'The Dirty Dozen' - 'Tindersticks' - 'The Meters' - 'Lamb' - 'Tito Puente' - 'Interactivo' - 'Rodrigo y Gabriela' - 'Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan' - 'Ted Hawkins'- 'Toots Thielemans' - 'Dr. John' - 'Prince' - 'Astor Piazzolla' - 'Feiruz' - 'Minuit Gibolles' - 'Septeto Nacional Ignacio Pineiro'- 'Queen' - 'Jacques Brel' - 'Nick Cave'......
Mozart, Brahms, Holst...
| | Movies | www.kerryfilmfestival.com
'V for Vendetta' - 'Heat' - 'The Departed' - 'The Wiz' - 'Fargo' - 'Star Wars' - 'Children of Men' - 'The Shawshank Redemption' - 'Amadeus' - 'Breaking and Entering' - 'Pan's Labyrinth' - 'Casino Royale' - 'Inside Man' - 'Hallam Foe' - 'Frida' etc. etc... | | Television | zzzzzz...... | | Books | 'Invitation to a Beheading' by Vladimir Nabokov
'Duizend schitterende zonnen' by Khaled Hosseini
'The House of the Spirits' by Isabel Allende
'Leviathan' by Paul Auster
'De ondraaglijke lichtheid van het bestaan' by Milan Kundera
'Fast Food Nation' by Eric Schlosser
'Women who run with the Wolves' by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
'Poetry in the Making' by Ted Hughes
'The Portrait of Dorian Gray' by Oscar Wilde
'De Verborgen Geschiedenis' by Donna Tart
'1984' by George Orwell
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Karolien's Details
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| Status: | Single | | Here for: | Networking | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Zodiac Sign: | Libra | | Occupation: | musician/photographer |
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About me:
I was born on the 5th of October 1976 in Mechelen, Belgium.
*Started studying music at the age of 8 at the Music Conservatorium in Mechelen and chose percussion and later guitar and voice as my instruments.
*Started playing in rockbands when 16 - started band 'Betterfood than Nothing'.
*Won song writing competition with the song 'Wipe'
*Played in samba band.
*Studied Visual Arts in St.Lukas Brussel, secondary school.
*Masters in Visual Arts Option Photography, College of St.Lukas Brussel.
*Degree in teaching at College of St. Lukas Brussel.
*Diploma with Bloso in teaching alpine ski
*Travel reportage on the USA, 1999.
*Exhibition of images USA in gallery in Mechelen and solo exhibition.
*Travel reportage on Syria, 2000.
*Exhibition of images Syria in Signal Arts Centre, Bray - Cork Vision Centre and Cahirciveen Community Centre.
*Lived in Dublin for 1 year and a half - assisted several photographers.(2000)
*Moved to Cahirciveen, Co. Kerry (2002)
*Writing of story 'The Asphodel People'
*Teaching of photography, working with newspaper.
*Obtained a diploma in Youth and Community Work from UCC and a cert in Drug Awareness from FASA.(2004)
*Co-ordinator of 'Stories of our childhood' booklet with the Active Retirement Group.
*Body of work around 'The Convent' in Cahirciveen - photo's, drawings, paintings, poems, video - on display in the Cahirciveen library.(2005)
*Currently self employed in photography, arts and music and teach, do workshops and gigs.
*work with young people, children, elderly people, people with disabilities - music, teaching drums, workshops, photography...Clients include; primary school Castleisland, Coars N.S. Cahirciveen, secondary school Cahirciveen, Asana language school, Kerry School of Music, Cahirciveen Hospital, Fertha View Day Centre, Tig an Oileann - Valentia Island, KDYS, World Fleadh 2006, Samhlaiocht...
*our band 'Coney Joe' is doing well and you can contact me for gigs - blues, funk, latin, rock, world...we play at 'the Blind Piper', World Bodhran Festival 2007, 'Sol y Sombra','An Bonnan Bui', 'Mike Murts', 'the Royal'...
'Samba band 'cE-samba?!' - community project with 12 members.See also www.sambainireland.com - we were at the Rose of Tralee this year!(since November 2006)
*Exhibition at the Samhlaiocht Gallery, Tralee from 27 June until 27 July 2007 'In search of music...Cuba', was opened by Mr. Noel Carrillo, Cuban Ambassador to Ireland. Exhibition of photo's, video/film, music, made while in Cuba in April 2007.
*Facilitator of Killarney Samba Band.
*Available as a freelance musician; percussion, drum kit...
*Crane Lane Theatre, Cork - 7 April - 11pm, gig with 'Coney Joe'
*www.stopsarcoidosis.org
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