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Haakon Askeland

Norwegian mandolin- and guitar player

About Me

I started playing mandolin at age 15, after fiddling around with the guitar for a few years. A friend of mine traded his guitar for a banjo and convinced me that I should start to play the mandolin.. The first one is free, and then you're hooked... Ever since I started playing I've been writing tunes on guitar and mandolin (probable because I was to lazy to learn all the old trad. tunes..). Some of these tunes you will find on this page.
About the songs
Wheel Hoss: (Bill Monroe) Demo recording featuring myself on all instruments.
Wedding March: (Trad.) Demo recording. Traditional Norwegian fiddletune adapted for mandolin.
Echoes: (H. Askeland) Demo recording featuring myself on all instruments.
Waltz in G-major, and stuff..: (H. Askeland) Demo recording featuring myself on all instruments.
Down The Old Millstream: (H. Askeland) From Hemisfair's new CD, "Blue Blue Grass Of Home". Knut Hem: Dobro, Øystein Fosshagen: Fiddle, Lars Håvard Haugen: Guitar, Finn Guttormsen: Bass, and myself on Mandolin & Rhythm Guitar.
Blackberry Blossom: (trad.) Demo recording featuring myself on all instruments.

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Music:

Member Since: 8/20/2006
Band Website: nbk.homedns.org
Band Members: Bands and people I play with:

NORSK BLUEGRASS KOMMANDO - Bjoern Berge, Jan Flaaten, Tor Egil Berge, Nils Eide

BANJOVI - Stian Carstensen , Kjartan Iversen, Finn Guttormsen , Knut Hem , Ola Kvernberg .

AKAUSTIC SODA - Oeystein Fosshagen, Rune Homlong, Renette Marshall, Davide Bertolini, Eirik S. Jørstad.

HEMISFAIR - Knut Hem , Terje Kinn , Lars Haavard Haugen , Oeystein Fosshagen , Finn Guttormsen .

THE FOGGY FEW - Stig Bruhjell , Atle-Hjørn Øien , Lars Topho Nordtveit, Kjetil Bjørnevoll.
Influences: Great pickers like:
Sam Bush , Bela Fleck , David Grisman , Mike Marshall , Doc Watson , Mark O'Conner, Tony Rice , Jerry Douglas , Dan Crary, Matt Flinner , Chris Thile , David Grier, Scott Nygaard ....

Also bands like:
New Grass Revival, Boone Creek, Nickel Creek , The Kentucky Colonels, The Band, Jethro Tull, Led Zeppelin, Little Feat ...

Sounds Like: This is how Norsk Bluegrass Kommando sounded, and looked like.. back in 1993:

Norsk Bluegrass Kommando - Southbound

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My Blog

New guitar on its way!

When I was attending the Risør Bluegrass Festival this summer, I had the pleasure of testing an acoustic Baritone Guitar built by the Norwegian Luthier Harald Haugaard. I immediately fell in love with...
Posted by Haakon Askeland on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:05:00 PST

Check out our new trio!

Check out http://www.myspace.com/nugrassunited.This is a new bluegrass/newgrass trio with Bjorn Berge, Kjetil Ulland and myself. We did a demo recording earlier this summer, and it turned out pretty g...
Posted by Haakon Askeland on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:51:00 PST

HEMISFAIR is here!

Finally!! Knut Hem's long awaited CD-project is about to be released.The band is called Hemisfair and the title of the CD is Blue Blue Grass Of Home.Since I am a member of Hemisfair, I am using some ...
Posted by Haakon Askeland on Tue, 22 May 2007 11:58:00 PST

New tune uploaded!

I started playing around with the old bluegrass standard "Blackberry Blossom" late one night.. and after just some more late nights, I had recorded my very own version of this beautiful tune..!Hope yo...
Posted by Haakon Askeland on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:58:00 PST