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https://squareandcompasspub.co.uk/what-s-on/1641Steve Jinski is a songwriter, singer, performer, musician, and music educator who believes passionately in music as a form of expression, engagement, enjoyment and education.
How did I get here? There are many external influences including people, places, communities, politics, and ideas that have shaped my relationship with music. This relationship is complicated since when growing up I had no formal or informal music education and started playing, performing, and writing music rather late.
I was born in Liverpool (yeah yeah yeah!) and moved up to the north east in my late teens for what I would now loosely call education purposes. I have always sung but taught myself guitar and piano so I could accompany and put some structure to the songs and lyrics that have always floated around in my head.
I joined bands, did gigs, played all kinds of regional venues including the Working Men’s Clubs circuit where you do not get any second chances and that probably toughened me up to be able to perform to any audience. However this was all mainly ‘covers’ and I was desperate to get my own songs out there. This happened to some extent with the bands I played with but really came to the fore when I started performing as a solo artist.
A vinyl album ‘Eventually’ on a local label Projects UK but distributed through Rough Trade got me playing venues all over the country. A guitar and a suitcase in the back of a beat up old Mondeo took me to folk clubs, arts centres, student unions, alternative cabaret, concert halls and festivals. Some notable appearances included The Reading Festival, Hackney Empire and London's Mean Fiddler.
An opportunity to play a couple of gigs in Denmark was the springboard to quite a few years playing all over Europe and Scandinavia, with a nod to Paul Simon the railway station became my second home, I’ve seen them all.
Links:
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facebook.com/stevejinskimusic
twitter.com/SJinski
youtube.com/channel/UCvESY-rXCtl6-TMlzT2PScA
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Worth Matravers, BH19 3LF Worth Matravers, United Kingdom, Worth Matravers, Swanage, BH19 3, United Kingdom, Wareham
