Nehalennia Suite by Jules Bitter

One of his examples and teachers was Thomas ("Tommy") Keenan who lived and played the whistle and uillean pipes in the Antwerp pubs in that period.

In late-night-sessions in that Belgian town he also got befriended and inspired then, by some musicians that later became wellknown in the celtic music scene :

Helen Flaherty (Shantalla), Kieran Fahey (ex-"Shantalla"), Rudi Velghe ("Orion") and Gerard Hirsh ("Meghan")

In 1995 he started a duo with Bernard Willemse (neo-celtic harp) and soon his brother Rob Bitter joined "Finglas" (gaelic Fionnglaise : "clear stream") , and in 1997 they made a successfull audio-tape "WaterEmotion" with guestplayers Frenk van Hooff on Irish bouzouki) and Philippe Masure ("Comas") on guitar

Soon Jules and Rob started to play in Philippe's band "Dolmen" too, and in 2001 "Finglas" was reborn and introduced successfully as a 6 piece band on the 8th celtic festival in Bergen op Zoom : see and listen: www.finglas.com

In 2002 Jules made and produced his first cd "Druid Dance" and started "FluitPraxis" and was asked to do workshops for the dutch association for folkmusic (SVN)

He also does some free lance radiowork and recently made two ethno-musical documentairies for dutch Radio 1 (VPRO) : "Les Chaudrons de Bretagne" and "The Irish Horns".

If you visit his website you can read and find out more about his lessons,courses,workshops,concerts and ...

listen to his Cd's and read some reviews.

Cd "Druid Dance" : FPCD001

jigs, reels, airs, songs, a true celtic soundscape he made with befriended and experienced musicians.

Full color booklet (16 pages english-dutch) contains photo's and illustrations and a lot of interesting information about the music.

Cd "Nehalennia Suite" : FPCD002

His musical ode to the celtic goddess from Zeeland.

Full color booklet (24 pages english-dutch) contains original illustrations and historical information about this mysterious local goddess and her temples that were found in the sea at Domburg and Colijnsplaat.

Cd "Neeltje and Saltbeard" : FPCD003 FPCD004 FPCD005

A fascinating celtic tale about Saltbeard the bard of the Nehalennia temples, who wants to become a merman to be able to live in two worlds....

There's music and special sound effects....

For kids age 7 - 77....and very usefull for a Nehalennia schoolproject.

Soon available here at CD Baby in 3 versions!

FPCD003 "Neeltje en Zoutbaard" = dutch

FPCD004 "Neeltje und Saltzbart"= german

FPCD005 "Neeltje and Saltbeard"= english

Cd "The Beatconductor" (FPCD006)

Play Irish music along with a diversity of slow and fast rithems.

Every percussion track has four speeds, so you can learn to play steadily and with swing according to your level.

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