Tollak Ollestad
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Background information | |
Born | Seward, Alaska, United States |
Occupation(s) | Instrumentalist, singer, songwriter |
Instrument(s) | Harmonica, keyboard |
Website | tollak |
Tollak Ollestad is an American
Early life
Tollak Ollestad was born in
Career
He first became known as keyboardist/singer touring with artists
Ollestad performed "Canzoni Stonate" live with Andrea Bocelli at his "Amore Under the Desert Sky" Concert. The concert was recorded at the Lake Las Vegas Resort in December 2005.[8]
Ollestad has also released three albums of original music independently, respectively "Walk the Earth" 2004, "Across the Rubicon" 2009 and "Tollak live" 2016.[9][10]
Ollestad's harmonica is featured on
He moved to the Netherlands in 2004 where he currently resides and continues to perform, record and teach, as well as elsewhere in Europe, America and other venues worldwide.
Ollestad's research and work at the Academy for pop culture in the Netherlands led to his appearance at the TEDx conference in Groningen, the Netherlands in 2016. The talk is titled "Discovering the musical subconscious" and is a discourse, along with musical demonstration, on the need for increased awareness and focus on the "intuitive-subconscious" connection to learning, making and performing music. A connection he argues is as deeply interwoven into the human psyche as language.[13] In 2021, he joined the fourth season of The Voice Senior. He picked Gerard Joling as his coach, and eventually made it into the finals.
References
- ^ "Tollak Ollestad | Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 2021-02-06.
- ^ "Tollak Ollestad interview | Masters of Harmonica". Retrieved 2021-02-06.
- ^ "Gilbert Ollestad Obituary (2013) - The Seattle Times". www.legacy.com. Retrieved 2021-02-06.
- ^ "Christopher Cross -" (in Danish). Retrieved 2021-02-06.
- ^ "Interview with Tollak Ollestad". Archived from the original on 2010-04-29. Retrieved 2010-07-07.
- ^ "Tollak Ollestad Credits - ARTISTdirect Music". Artistdirect.com. Retrieved 2017-05-31.
- ^ "Great Performances . Andrea Bocelli: Amore Under the Desert Sky . Musical Selections | PBS". PBS. Archived from the original on 2014-02-10. Retrieved 2017-09-17.
- ^ "Great Performances . Andrea Bocelli: Amore Under the Desert Sky . Musical Selections | PBS". PBS. 2014-02-10. Archived from the original on 2014-02-10. Retrieved 2021-02-06.
- ^ David Eade. "Tollak | Across the Rubicon | CD Baby Music Store". Cdbaby.com. Retrieved 2017-05-31.
- ^ "'Tollak Live' van Tollak Ollestad op Apple Music". Itunes.apple.com. 9 September 2016. Retrieved 2017-05-31.
- ^ "Tollak Ollestad | Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 2021-02-23.
- ^ Garsthuizen (2019-09-28). "Vrijdag 18 oktober 21 uur Tollak Ollestad band". Garsthuizen - Startenhuizen (in Dutch). Retrieved 2021-02-23.
- ^ "Tollak Ollestad". TEDxGroningen.com. Retrieved 2017-05-31.
External links
- Official site
- https://www.facebook.com/events/145265399156971
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnxfhJ3dD_E
- https://www.facebook.com/tollakmusic/
- http://mastersofharmonica.com/masters-of-the-chromatic-harmonica/4841-2/
- https://twitter.com/hashtag/tollakollestad
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CilXrSYMA8U (Tollak Ollestad | TEDxGroningen)