Maaike Siegerist is an award-winning Dutch singer-songwriter, based in Glasgow. Drawing on genres from acoustic jazz to folk rock, she writes story-telling songs about travels, love, remarkable people, and recently, endangered species. Local and national BBC radio and Amazing Radio have played her music. She performs in the UK and the Netherlands. Recent highlights include Bradford Roots, Bristol Harbour Festival and the Royal Bath & West Show.
Maaike’s jazz album, Little Dutch Songbook, is out now!
Inspired by classic jazz, the songs tell of cider-fuelled nights at Bristol’s Old Duke, take you to New York and China, and celebrate legends like Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong.
The album includes the lead single, So You Think, Maaike’s response to society’s expectations of women. To stay young and beautiful. To leave the technical stuff to the guys. She doesn’t think so! It was picked up by local radio and played on BBC Radio 6 Music.
“The album has a great feel good factor to it with a few latin rhythms, Maaike’s delightful voice, a bit of cheekiness thrown into her outstanding lyrics” – Brian Inglis, Jelli Records
“the piano is fluid and has a lightness of touch that seems to inspire all around it and Maaike’s vocal performance is characteristically commanding and appealing” – Trust the Doc
“agile vocal delivery and storytelling.(…) Jaunty piano and double bass provide the relaxed bedrock for Maaike’s amusing take down of the traditional male expectations of a women’s place.” – fifty3.net
