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Artist
Vreemde Kostgangers
12+ albums
dutchpopfolkrockNederlandstalig
about
Vreemde Kostgangers was a Dutch 'super group', although the three musicians involved found 'super group' a silly word. It was the long overdue yet unlikely collaboration of three of The Netherlands' most famous and succesful songwriters of all times: Boudewijn de Groot, George Kooymans (of Golden Earring) and Henny Vrienten (of Doe Maar). The three had been good friends for many years but had never shared a stage together (although a young Henny Vrienten did have a stint in Boudewijn de Groot's backing band in the early 1970s), until they did a surprise performance together at the 65th birthday celebration of Golden Earring drummer, Cesar Zuiderwijk. They 'clicked', felt that their voices sounded good together and loosely agreed to "do something with this". A collection of new songs was written and September 2016 saw the launch of their joint theatre show, 'Vreemde Kostgangers', which literally means 'Strange Lodgers' or 'Strange Boarders', but loosely translates as 'All Sorts', as in the saying 'it takes all sorts to make a world'. Boudewijn de Groot, Henny Vrienten and George Kooymans have more than 150 years of experience as recording artists between them and were listed in the Dutch Top 40 for a mind-boggling 581 weeks in total. The public had never heard Golden Earring's George Kooymans sing in his mothertongue before. The trio's first album, simply titled Vreemde Kostgangers, was recorded live in the studio before an audience and released on 24 February 2017, surpri
