About the Real Roots Café

Welcome in the Real Roots Café The Real Roots Café is a non-profit Dutch language music web site that represents a variety of music genres. Music in the broadest sense of the words, as long it is real and deeply rooted in, and directly related to the ongoing development of the North American societies and cultures. The Real Roots Café is in fact a hangout fore everyone who would like to learn more about “Real People, Real Instruments and Real Music”.

Spiritual father, designer and manager of the Real Roots Café web site is Jan Janssen. The musical background of this legendary local DJ goes way back in the late sixties, early seventies. The Real Roots Café is coming to you straight from Millingen aan de Rijn in the Netherlands. Geographically Millingen aan de Rijn is situated right in the middle of the triangle Nijmegen, Arnhem en Kleve, Germany. But it also lies on edge of one of most adventures dynamic nature reserve of Western Europe called “The Millingerwaard”.

2006 it was al about the TEN YEARS Real Roots Café anniversary party on the world wide web. June 4th 2006 at Cultureel Podium Roepaen in Ottersum, Holland just nearby the German border (Nijmegen, Kleve and Goch area) We had two stages. One acoustic indoor stage in the beautiful just renovated Chapel and one big outdoor stage. We had only 400 tickets, because we wanted to guarantee that all our visitors and artists really could enjoy the festival. So we had only a small budget but we created something very special. Please check out the incredible beautiful pictures, taken by Peter Pricken, to taste the atmosphere.

It’s really a never-ending story. Systematically The Real Roots Café is walking the long road, knowing that they are rumble in margins. Nevertheless, they love the challenge to support all those fabulous musicians. who almost never get the chance to promote their music on settled national radio stations and magazines. They cherish the sound that average listeners never get the chance to explore or hear.

DreamTeam

The “ Real Roots Café DreamTeam are; Peter Pricken, Huub Thomassen, Benny Mulder, Paul Jonker, Fred Schmale and myself of course. Everybody is delivering in their own manner and tempo their unique contribution. Check this out, The Real Roots Café knows no deadlines. Together and under their motto “Real People, Real Instruments and Real Music” they want to inform and enjoy their visitors in this cozy virtual café.

Bulletin board

The Real Roots Café is informing their visitors about the latest developments concerning Roots music. They welcome your help at anytime at any place. Without a doubt you know sometimes more than the Real Roots Café does. Be honest, how many times it happens that you are surfing the Internet and discovered some great Roots Music News? You would like to share it with others but you ask yourself, how? The Real Roots Café gives you the opportunity to share your latest Roots Music News with their visitors. If that happens, do not hesitate to send an e-mail to the most advanced bulletin board of the Netherlands called the Real Roots Café.

Live Reviews

Whenever possible, The Real Roots Café is happy to attend your performance and review it for publication on their live review pages. If you are an artist, it is maybe it is a good idea to make an appointment with them to arrange an audio interview at the same time?

Meet & Greet

As the name already does suspects is this the place where the Real Roots Café wants introduce to you on several artists. Monthly the Real Roots Café dream team makes a selection from there past or recent music works. Exclusively concerning what we think is simply the end and you should Meet & Greet we report. This way we hope to satisfy the steady growing requests to be informed by a independent non-profit website that promotes and represents a music genre that is deeply rooted in, and directly related to the ongoing development of the North American societies and cultures. The best American rock has taken its cue from the folk, blues and country traditions that have spawned it. The masters have also drawn colour from the multicultural sounds that have washed ashore with each immigrant wave. Capturing all this and fusing it with a sense of what's hot in music now is the challenge of the Real Roots Café.

Statistics

No, you don’t find a button on the Real Roots Café web site to see how the statistic are of the web site. The Real Roots Café is trying to keep their web site fast their mailbox clean without Spam and Virus attacks. The Real Roots Café web site is hosted by “LinkGidsHosting” one of the best, fastest, reliable and payable web hosting companies in the Netherlands.

Since The Real Roots Café is interactive, they welcome approximately 200 music explorers a day. About 80% of them are coming from inside the Netherlands, 10% from North America and 5% from Germany and 5% from al over the globe. Hope you now understand why the Real Roots Café uses Dutch and English language pages in their environment.

Also know that the Real Roots Café has a quite impressive Dutch (700 subscribers) and English (400 subscribers) language newsletter.

Advertising

Since the Real Roots Café has their own domain on World Wide Web they have more freedom. To keep the costs involved in maintaining the Real Roots Café website, advertising on the website is accepted. Advertising is exclusively fore those companies with products that are directly related to the visitors of the Real Roots Café website. Feel free to contact The Real Roots Café about their terms of conditions and rates.

Contact

Real Roots Café
Lincolnstraat 2
6566 CT Millingen aan de Rijn
The Netherlands
E-mail: rrc[at]realrootscafe[dot]com