here I am again! Larry, greatings to your wife, I am sorry but I don't know the Rankin family she compares us to. *GGG*
Well, indeed Anika and Wolfgang are my brother and sister. We are a family of music, you might say. Both my mum and dad have play instruments and encouraged us in every way. That is, my father cannot anymore since his left arm is lame due to illness. The worst fate I can imagine, not to be able to play instruments anymore!

The rest of my family also plays in a group where they perform old dances wearing traditinal dresses. Whatever you call that kind of "reenactors" in english, the name of this group is "de beekscheepers".

The others are good friends of us, who originally don't have relations to folk music. And that's what makes it so interesting to make music together: everyone has other intentions and imaginations how something should be done. Myself loving american Folk, blues, and expecially cajun more than everything else, my sister and brother being fans of irish folk, my brother also writing new dances in the northern german tradition as well as pop songs, lars playing ragtime and oldtime jazz on the piano, Heike (who sadly left us meanwhile) singing chancons... In the end you never know what will happen to a song once we start to work on it. talking of money *GGG*, if anyone of you wants to buy our CD, you pay EUR 14 plus transportation for more than 70 minutes of music, that's 20 euro-cent per minute (plus transp.), and thats next to nothing, isn't it? *GGG* Just send me a message!
Now my advert-time is over, I fear. I just wish everyone out there as much joy while making or listening to music as we have with John the Ferryman!