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Hannes Coetzee - Teaspoon Slide Guitarist

About Me

Hello and welcome to the official MySpace page of Hannes Coetzee! This page is dedicated to all the fans and anyone who is interested in finding out more about Hannes and his unique Teaspoon Slide Guitar style. Hannes' fame has grown over the last few months through YouTube ( in which he has been featured in a clip from the documentary, Karoo Kitaar Blues) and people from all over the world are wondering who he is and how he came up with his unique guitar playing style. Now you have an opportunity to communicate directly!Hannes is a soft-spoken 62 year old whose job is tapping the aloes that grow around his Karoo hometown of Herbertsdale, South Africa for their medicinal juice. Hannes composes his own songs and learnt to play the guitar on the side of the hill when the aloes were too dry to tap and to keep himself company on long, lonely nights in the mountains of the Kamiesberg. His right-hand finger picking style is called "optel en knyp" (which translated from Afrikaans, Hannes' home language, is "pick up and pinch") and combined with his unique teaspoon slide technique, he ranks as one of the most unusual slide guitarists in the world. If you shut your eyes, you would think that there were two people accompanying each other on guitars.

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Member Since: 4/16/2007
Band Website: http://www.myspace.com/hannescoetzeeteaspoonslideguitarist
Band Members: Hannes Coetzee - Teaspoon Slide Guitarist
Sounds Like: Karoo Blues
Record Label: Blik Music
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Hannes’ Music Available Online At Last!!! :)

Hello everyone! A lot of people have sent in emails and messages expressing interest in buying Hannes music which was before only available on CD in South Africa but now for the first time you can buy...
Posted by on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:36:00 GMT

New Photos of Hannes in USA!

Hello everyone! Just letting you know that brand new photos are being put up of Hannes with various artists and people he met while on his recent visit to the Port Townsend Slide and Steel Experience ...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 04:03:00 GMT

Hannes' First Trip Overseas!

Hannes has been invited to participate in the PORT TOWNSEND SLIDE AND STEEL EXPERIENCE which takes place in Fort Worden State Park, Washington, USA and is leaving South Africa TOMORROW (the 21st of Ju...
Posted by on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:40:00 GMT

Exclusive new video of Hannes in concert

Hello everybodyThis is just to let you know that there is a new video up of Hannes Coetzee playing live in concert  - enjoy! :)
Posted by on Tue, 08 May 2007 09:49:00 GMT

The Beginning

David Kramer met Hannes in 2001 during the making of a programme on guitarists for South African television. Since that meeting, Hannes, together with other musicians, joined Kramer in his award-winni...
Posted by on Thu, 03 May 2007 06:29:00 GMT

Framed for Posterity by Mike Behr

This magazine article first appeared in SA City Life (May 2002)It might never be as marketable as Paul Simon's Graceland or Ry Cooder's Buena Vista Social Club. But as an artistic triumph David Kramer...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 08:44:00 GMT

Karoo Kitaar Blues - The Documentary

Karoo Kitaar Blues ( a film directed by Liza Key) follows South African songwriter David Kramer and slide guitarist Hannes Coetzee into remote regions of South Africa on their quest to find musicians ...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 08:37:00 GMT