{"id":479,"date":"2018-04-21T20:38:32","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T20:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gerthemmingsen.dk\/?page_id=479"},"modified":"2018-04-25T13:45:01","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T13:45:01","slug":"irish-folk-music","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gerthemmingsen.dk\/?page_id=479&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Irish folk music"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my late teenage-years I played mainly bass guitar but also a little on an ordinary guitar. I bought a Spanish guitar and taught myself how to play after chords (at a moderate level). The inspiration was the folk music artists of that time such as Donovan<\/em> and Bob Dylan<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Ballads and singalong in Nigeria, 1981-83<\/strong><\/p>\n

I brought the guitar along as hand luggage when I travelled to Nigeria in 1981 to work for a couple of years at the branch office of my Danish company. Birgit and I lived\u00a0in the capital Lagos<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>in a compound, i.e. a number of houses enclosed with a brick wall. We lived there alongside a group of people from Denmark, Great Britain, The Netherlands, Australia – and one from Papua New Guinea. We regularly had social gatherings in the evening and ever so often we had a singalong where those with a guitar lead the singing of songs from our respective native countries. One of the Englishmen, Peter, was quite clever on his guitar and taught me a certain ‘finger-picking’ technique.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n