For 15 years Linde Nijland was part of harmony singing folk duo Ygdrassil. 2007 marked the preliminary end of the group and Linde continued her career as a solo singer/songwriter. She has toured The Netherlands, UK, Austria, Belgium and Germany. Apart from five albums and a live DVD with Ygdrassil, she's recorded "Visman" (1999), "Linde Nijland sings Sandy Denny

Sandy Denny

Sandy Denny , born Alexandra Elene Maclean Denny, was an English singer and songwriter, perhaps best known as the lead singer for the folk rock band Fairport Convention...

" (2003) and "Winterliederen" (2007). Since 2008 Linde has been working closely together with multi-instrumentalist Bert Ridderbos (guitars, cittern, accordion) with whom she started the international band "Het Internationaal Folkcomplot", a project that ran two years. Also she was part of the Sandy Denny anniversary tribute at The Troubadour in London and can be heard in the BBC

BBC

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 radio documentary "The Sandy Denny story" by Bob Harris

Bob Harris (radio)

Robert Brinley Joseph "Bob" Harris, OBE , known as "Whispering" Bob Harris, is British radio host who currently works for BBC Radio 2, presenting music two nights a week...

. July 2009 Linde was asked by Joe Boyd

Joe Boyd

Joe Boyd is an American record producer and former owner of the Witchseason production company. Boyd was instrumental in launching the careers of Nick Drake, Fairport Convention, and The Incredible String Band.-Career:...

 (former producer of, among others, Nick Drake, Incredible String Band, Fairport Convention, Pink Floyd) to sing the songs "Fotheringay

Fotheringay

Fotheringay was a short-lived British folk rock group, formed in 1970 by singer Sandy Denny on her departure from Fairport Convention. The band drew its name from her 1968 composition "Fotheringay" about Fotheringhay Castle, in which Mary, Queen of Scots had been imprisoned...

" and "Si tu dois partir" as part of an 'All Star' Fairport Convention

Fairport Convention

Fairport Convention are an English folk rock and later electric folk band, formed in 1967 who are still recording and touring today. They are widely regarded as the most important single group in the English folk rock movement...

 reunion concert in the Barbican Hall in London with original Fairport members Richard Thompson, Simon Nicol, Judy Dyble

Judy Dyble

Judith Aileen Dyble, better known as Judy Dyble , is an award winning British singer/songwriter most notable for being one of the vocalists with, and founder members of, Fairport Convention and Trader Horne; in between these she was very briefly with Giles, Giles and Fripp, which evolved into...

, Iain Mathews, Ashley Hutchings, Dave Mattacks and Dave Pegg.

In the fall of 2008 Linde and Bert Ridderbos went on a two month overland musical journey to the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan

Bhutan

Bhutan , officially the Kingdom of Bhutan, is a landlocked state in South Asia, located at the eastern end of the Himalayas and bordered to the south, east and west by the Republic of India and to the north by the People's Republic of China...

, through Serbia, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan and India. In Bhutan they performed at a centenary concert in honour of the crowning of the fifth King. Along the way they gave concerts and made music with traditional musicians. The entire journey was filmed for a CD + roadmovie (with voice-over by Iain Matthews

Iain Matthews

Iain Matthews is an English musician and songwriter. He was born Iain Matthew McDonald, in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England. He was known in the 1960s first as Ian McDonald, then as the 1960s progressed, as Ian Matthews...

. The digipack (CD + DVD) was released by CRS in 2011.

Discography

• Ygdrassil - Ygdrassil 1995
• Pieces - Ygdrassil 1996
• Visman - Linde 1999
• We visit many places - Ygdrassil 2000
• Nice days under darkest skies - Ygdrassil 2002
• Linde Nijland sings Sandy Denny 2003
• Easy Sunrise - Ygdrassil 2005
• DVD Live at the Folkwoods Festival - Ygdrassil 2007
• Winterliederen - with Henk Scholte & Bert Ridderbos 2007
• A Musical Journey / on the road to Bhutan - Linde Nijland & Bert Ridderbos (with musicians from Serbia, Iran, India, Bhutan) 2011
• Thanksgiving - Si Kahn
  Si Kahn
  Si Kahn is an American singer-songwriter, activist, and founder and former executive director of Grassroots Leadership.- Early life and education :...
  
  , guest vocals, lead vocals on "Motherless Child" 2007

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