Hello everybody on HIVE, and especially the Music Community. My name is Jasper and I'm writing to you from Cape Town in South Africa!!This is me...Just under a year ago I wrote this piece, where I was worried about the future of the Barleycorn Music Club, a non-profit organization that puts on a 3 act gig every Monday to promote live original music in Cape Town...

(Por favor, veja a versão em português deste blog abaixo da versão em inglês!)Hello everyone, and especially the SurfHive Community! It's Jasper, the musical-surfer dad from Cape Town in South Africa.I have cut back on HIVE thoroughly to focus on a busy time at my main job where we are working towards financial close on a very large solar farm. I am choosing to spend my free time on family, surf and music...

(Por favor, veja a versão em português deste blog abaixo da versão em inglês!)Hello everyone, and especially the SurfHive Community! It's Jasper, the musical-surfer dad from Cape Town in South Africa.Last year to make life more interesting I created a challenge with myself to surf a new spot at least once a month. One of the biggest scores was in September, when I managed to surf a place that is so sheltered from swell, that it only breaks in massive storm swells! However, when it does break, it is good - so people want to be there!

(Por favor, veja a versão em português deste blog abaixo da versão em inglês!)Hello everyone, and especially the SurfHive Community! It's Jasper, the musical-surfer dad from Cape Town in South Africa.Last time I posted about surfing I was singing the praises of autumn/early winter in Cape Town - when the skies are blue but the weather is moderate (not too hot) and the wind is soft or nearly gone!

Hello everybody on HIVE, and especially the Vibes Community. My name is Jasper, and I'm writing (and singing) to you from Cape Town, South Africa! Welcome to Week 16 of the Vibes Web3 Music Competition! This week we have a theme: Roots! We are supposed to go back to our beginnings and share some of the first lyrics we ever learnt, or possibly the first song we ever wrote...

Hello everybody on HIVE, and especially the Vibes Community. My name is Jasper, and I'm writing (and singing) to you from Cape Town, South Africa! Welcome to Week 14 of the Vibes Web3 Music Competition! This week we have a theme: The Music Library of Sam Feldt! Well, I am a bit of a folky soul in my own song-writing, and so I thought it would be fun to tackle covering one of Sam Feldt’s songs with nothing but an acoustic guitar, a harmonica and a stomp box at my feet to emphasize the beat!