Gijsbert Kamer wrote a very nice review in one of our national newspapers.”Despite moments of shock when the choir sounds like meowing cats, “The Soundmakers Project” remains captivating”. https://www.volkskrant.nl/muziek/ondanks-schrikmomenten-waarop-het-koor-als-miauwende-katten-klinkt-blijft-the-soundmakers-project-boeien~bc79a3e9/
Review of The Soundmakers Project in Jazzbulletin
Een weergaloos project…, een opmerkelijk album… lees de lovende review in Jazzbulletin van het Nederlands Jazz Archief
Review on Jazzquad of our new album The Soundmakers Project
Ineke Vandoorn / Marc van Vugt / Christine Duncan / The Soundmakers – The Soundmakers Project 10.07.2025 More than once our pages have reviewed the works of Dutch musicians Ineke Vandoorn and Marc van Vugt, both together and separately. Our regular readers have had the opportunity to appreciate van Vugt’s subtle, creative guitar playing and […]
Review on Jazzism of our new album The Soundmakers Project
The first reviews of the Soundmakers Project album are being published, preceding the September 6 release. This one is by Coen de Jonge for Jazzism Recensie: Vandoorn | Van Vugt | Duncan – ‘The Soundmakers Project’ Het album The Soundmakers Project van Vandoorn, Van Vugt en Duncan combineert koorimprovisatie met jazz en vereist aandachtige beluistering; […]
New release The Soundmakers Project on September 6!
We are happy that on September 6 a new album will be released of our Soundmakers project. It will be available on all streaming and download services and on CD through our own Bandcamp store. Presaving on Spotify is available as of August 30. The Soundmakers project revolves around the human voice, in all its […]
Marc’s solo guitar albums for two years in American Jazz top 200
We just found out that Marc’s solo acoustic guitar album The Lonely Coyote was in the jazz top 200 of the US Rootsmusicreport 2023 ánd my second solo acoustic guitar album The Curious Badger was in their jazz top 200 of 2024. Roots Music Report is the number one independent music chart in the world. […]
Hit single ‘Dancing in the wind’ since January in the top 25 of Allaboutjazz
Marc’s single Dancing in the Wind of the album The Curious Badger is becoming a hit single. Since the release in January the single was in the top 10 of the prestigious American website Allaboutjazz.com for six month in a row and is now still in the top 25 on number 23.
Nieuwe serie Marc Meets 2024-2025 online
De Marc Meets serie gaat zijn negende seizoen in met wederom een prachtig en veelzijdig programma. Kijk hier naar het programma en reserveer je tickets voor de voorstellingen
Fantastic reviews of Dancing on Water!
The first reviews and articles on The Curious Badger are coming in:
Marc is elected in the top 3 acoustic guitar players in Gitarist Magazine and a full page interview was published. You can read it here. ‘Marc van Vugt’s new album covers a huge range with absolute mastery and exquisite playing’ Jens Hausmann Akustik Gitarre ‘One of his country’s strongest acoustic guitarists…..Marc van Vugt’s compositions are […]
The first reviews of Dancing on Water !
Rinus van de Heijden – Jazznu.com “Song art is practiced here, in a way that will surprise even seasoned music lovers.”“Rarely, perhaps never heard how two musicians find each other in this way: monumental, unrelenting, closely matched, mutually uplifting. ““Dancing on Water is a giant album. The joining of two such different greats could have […]
Marc elected in the top 3 best acoustic guitar players in Gitarist Magazine
We just heard that marc is elected in the top 3 best acoustic guitar players in Gitarist Magazine. Wonderful news and thank you all that voted for Marc and thanks to Gitarist Magazine. What an honor! https://www.gitarist.nl/muzieknieuws/artikel/2-29083/harry-sacksioni-is-akoestisch-gitarist-van-het-jaar–gitarist-poll-awards-2024